Odd
-
Japan ask 2010 hosts South Africa to ban vuvuzela
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's football chief has joined in the chorus of protestors wanting the noisy vuvuzela trumpet to be banned from next year's World Cup in South Africa.
November 17, 2009, 5:56 pm -
'The difference between life and death': inquest
A coronial inquest has heard the Aboriginal housing association in charge of Alice Springs town camps failed to deal with the increasing number of uncontrollable dogs.
ABC - November 17, 2009, 5:48 pm -
Beggin' your Parton, but that's not Dolly
Several Dolly Parton fans in Darwin have tried to get their money back after discovering a tribute show did not feature the country music queen herself.
ABC - November 17, 2009, 4:07 pm -
Dog attack boy home
A three-year-old Tasmanian boy seriously injured in a dog attack two months ago has been discharged from the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.
ABC - November 17, 2009, 2:06 pm -
British royal heirlooms up for auction
Royal heirlooms including a picnic set and a portrait painted by Queen Victoria are expected to fetch around one million pounds ($AU1.8 million) when they go under the hammer at Christie's in London on Friday.
ABC - November 17, 2009, 1:38 pm -
Shackleton's whisky still on ice
Early next year a team of New Zealand explorers will set off on one of the more unusual Antarctic expeditions.
ABC - November 17, 2009, 10:30 am -
Reality show pandas to fans
Seinfeld was the long-running American TV show about nothing, and television producers in Thailand seem to have a cult-hit on their hands with something quite similar.
ABC - November 17, 2009, 10:20 am -
Robber behind "perfect crime" surrenders
PARIS (Reuters) - The driver of a security van who vanished earlier this month with more than 11 million euros ($16.5 million) in cash has surrendered to police in Monaco, French authorities said on Monday.
November 17, 2009, 7:10 am -
Women disappointed by Gaddafi "party"
ROME (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a U.N. food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported on Monday.
November 17, 2009, 7:08 am -
Cannibals nabbed selling corpse to kebab house
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.
November 17, 2009, 7:04 am -
Italian women disappointed by Gaddafi "party"
ROME (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a U.N. food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported on Monday.
November 17, 2009, 3:01 am -
Horrific dog attacks highlight desperate situation
Another vicious dog attack in an Aboriginal community has highlighted what is a serious problem in the Northern Territory.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 8:32 pm -
Greek police catch helicopter jail fugitive
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police arrested Monday a heavily-armed fugitive, Alket Rijai, who embarrassed authorities by twice escaping from prison in a helicopter.
November 16, 2009, 7:45 pm -
Deadly camp dogs inquest resumes in Alice
An inquest has resumed into the deaths of two men whose bodies were mauled by dogs in separate incidents at an Aboriginal town camp in Alice Springs.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 5:00 pm -
Creepy Santa is 'every child's worst nightmare'
A controversial giant Santa Claus decoration has been reinstalled in Auckland's city centre to the horror of some locals who say it is "too creepy".
ABC - November 16, 2009, 3:04 pm -
Man dies after dog attack
Northern Territory police say an autopsy will determine whether a man was mauled to death by a pack of dogs in a remote Arnhem Land camp.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 9:21 am -
Gallery gong for climate change exhibit
The Noosa Regional Gallery on Queensland's Sunshine Coast has taken out a state award for an exhibition at Lake Cootharaba in June.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 9:01 am -
Obama in a grass skirt? Hawaii to host APEC 2011
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama invited fellow leaders in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation to a summit in Hawaii in 2011, but may have alarmed them with the dress code.
November 15, 2009, 6:34 pm -
France makes Eastwood's day
President Nicolas Sarkozy has awarded US actor and director Clint Eastwood one of France's top honours, hailing him as a cinema legend and a symbol of the type of America that the French adored.
ABC - November 15, 2009, 9:16 am -
Young rescuers recognised for saving woman's life
Surf Live Saving will consider presenting awards to the four young boys and a 16-year-old surf life saver who helped rescue a woman at risk of drowning at Adelaide's Henley Beach yesterday.
ABC - November 15, 2009, 8:46 am
