Sex scandal rocks Australian PM’s Labour party (Reuters)
Reuters - A sex scandal rocked on Tuesday Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's scandal-plagued Labour Party in the state of New South Wales -- vital to Rudd's re-election hopes.
Archive for August, 2009
Table tennis star finally old enough for a girlfriend at 25 (Reuters)
Reuters - China's 25-year-old world number one Wang Hao has finally been deemed old enough to have a girlfriend by Chinese table tennis officials, local media reported on Tuesday.
Hoarding energy-guzzling bulbs ahead of EU ban (Reuters)
Reuters - Germans, who sometimes see themselves as guardians of the environment, are hoarding energy-guzzling incandescent light bulbs ahead of a looming European Union-wide ban, the GfK market research agency said.
Grandson sues to clear Stalin over killings (Reuters)
Reuters - Josef Stalin was in the dock on Monday when a Russian court held a preliminary hearing in a libel case brought by his grandson over a newspaper story which said the tyrant had ordered the killings of Soviet citizens.
Probing election data release via Twitter (Reuters)
Reuters - German election officials said on Monday they were investigating whether exit poll data were made public on Twitter before polls closed Sunday and there might be an appeal against the result if laws had been broken.
Germans hoard energy-guzzling bulbs ahead of EU ban (Reuters)
Reuters - Germans, who sometimes see themselves as guardians of the environment, are hoarding energy-guzzling incandescent light bulbs ahead of a looming European Union-wide ban, the GfK market research agency said.
Mariachis set world record in Mexican city (AP)
AP - Ay, ay, ay, ay! Guadalajara finally boasts the world's biggest mariachi band.
Did Mexico beat it? Fans go for ‘Thriller’ record (AP)
AP - They say they beat it. Thousands of Mexicans claimed they broke the record for most people dancing to "Thriller" simultaneously in one place on Saturday, which would have been Michael Jackson's 51st birthday.
Amsterdam lets “beer bike” ride on, with limits (Reuters)
Reuters - The beer bike will ride on in Amsterdam.
Brazen Fla. burglar grabs TV in double-steal (AP)
AP - Police in Florida say a burglar who made off with a man's valuables returned to the home later and snatched what he couldn't carry on his first trip: a 100-pound plasma-screen TV.