 Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying
(Reuters)
 10.03.2010 20:32  0 views  0 comments
Tags: Reuters, Toss, Winter, Vancouver, Olympics, February, Canada, Canada, Reuters
 Reuters - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.
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| New Zealander auctions "ghosts" in a bottle
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10.03.2010 20:31 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Reuters, Zealand, New Zealand, Reuters
Reuters - A New Zealand woman sold two vials that she said contained the ghosts of an old man and a young girl for almost NZ$2,000 ($1,410) after a fiercely contested online auction, local media reported. Read more »
| Canada drops plans for politically correct anthem
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08.03.2010 19:28 0 views 0 comments
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Reuters - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral. Read more »
| U.S. blacks, Hispanics losing more sleep over worries
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08.03.2010 19:24 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Black, Reuters, Americas, Monday
Reuters - Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey released on Monday found. Read more »
| Seal meat to be on menu at Canadian Parliament
(Reuters)
08.03.2010 19:24 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Minister, State, Union, Anti, China, Reuters, Peter, Sets, European, General
 Reuters - Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products.
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| Aussie underwear has gone bananas
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05.03.2010 20:11 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Australian, Reuters
Reuters - Australian underwear company AussieBum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of men's underwear made with bananas. Read more »
| Hamas bans men from women's hair salons in Gaza
(Reuters)
05.03.2010 20:06 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Print, Minister, Reuters, December, Game, Strap, Hamas, Prime Minister
 Reuters - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women's hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders.
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| Pilot with fake licence arrested at airport
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04.03.2010 16:53 0 views 0 comments
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Reuters - A Swedish pilot with a fake commercial license was arrested in his cockpit at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as he prepared to fly 101 passengers on a Boeing 737 to Turkey, Dutch police said Wednesday. Read more »
| London stage fright: rats, mice and fleas: survey
(Reuters)
04.03.2010 16:52 0 views 0 comments
Tags: West, Reuters, London, West
Reuters - Performers in London's West End are having to cope with a different kind of stage fright in the form of mice, rat and flea infestations in theatres, according to a new survey by actors' union Equity. Read more »
| Chinese youth accused of not being fighting fit
(Reuters)
04.03.2010 16:52 0 views 0 comments
Tags: China, Reuters, Japanese, Chinese, Shell
 Reuters - China must urgently address the physical fitness of the nation's youth or run the risk of raising a generation incapable of fighting the Japanese in a future war, the head of the country's top sports university said Thursday.
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| Canada may adopt gender-neutral national anthem
(Reuters)
04.03.2010 16:51 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Reuters, Chris, Troy, February, Flare, Canada
 Reuters - "O Canada," the country's national anthem, has included the line, "True patriot love in all thy sons' command," for nearly 100 years.
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| Child's play at air traffic tower sparks inquiry
(Reuters)
03.03.2010 17:56 0 views 0 comments
Tags: John, Reuters, New York, International
Reuters - An investigation is underway into why a young child, apparently under an adult's supervision, was allowed to direct air traffic at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday. Read more »
| Army nixes raid after Facebook leak?
(Reuters)
03.03.2010 17:56 0 views 0 comments
Tags: West, Ball, Reuters, Fall, West, Arts, Facebook
 Reuters - The Israeli military called off a raid in Palestinian territory after a soldier posted details, including the time and place, on social networking website Facebook, Israel's Army Radio reported Wednesday.
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| "Hurt Locker" producers sued days before Oscars
(Reuters)
03.03.2010 17:55 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Reuters, Hugo, Arts, February, Awards, Academy
 Reuters - A U.S. Army sergeant on Tuesday sued the makers of Oscar-nominated film "The Hurt Locker" five days before the Academy Awards, claiming the central character in the film is based on him.
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| Marriages last longer than living together?
(Reuters)
02.03.2010 18:35 0 views 0 comments
Tags: State, Reuters, New York, Jets, Control, February
 Reuters - U.S. marriages last longer than unions where couples live together outside matrimony, the Centers for Disease Control reported on Tuesday.
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| Tanks a lot...
(Reuters)
01.03.2010 17:08 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Reuters, About, Saturday
Reuters - About 100 modern Russian tanks have been discovered abandoned on the side of a road in the country's Ural mountains, footage published Saturday by websites showed. Read more »
| Panda found eating like a pig
(Reuters)
01.03.2010 17:07 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Reuters, Chinese
Reuters - Hunger drove a wild panda to break into a Chinese farmer's pig pen and eat their food, which was meat and bone, rather than bamboo. Read more »
| Baby born in traffic jam as leader drives by
(Reuters)
26.02.2010 19:00 0 views 0 comments
Tags: President, Ball, Reuters
Reuters - A Pakistani woman gave birth to a baby girl in an auto-rickshaw stuck in a traffic jam when police closed roads to let President Asif Ali Zardari's motorcade drive by. Read more »
| Man must pay for injury caused in suicide bid
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26.02.2010 17:25 0 views 0 comments
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Reuters - A court ruled that a Russian man must pay more than 100,000 rubles ($3,330) for medical bills and damages to the parents of a girl he hit when he jumped from a window in a suicide attempt. Read more »
| Man caught robbing same bank twice in 24 hours
(Reuters)
26.02.2010 17:24 0 views 0 comments
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Reuters - A German robber held up the same bank in Hamburg twice within 24 hours just a week after being released from jail -- for the same crime. Read more »
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