Archive for October, 2009

Pouring cold water on fashionista swimmers (Reuters)

Reuters - Japan's swimmers could face lifetime bans if they dye their hair, wear an earring or have brightly decorated fingernails.

Man pins treatment hopes on Bardot autograph (Reuters)

Reuters - A 50 year-old Russian coal miner suffering from lung disease is seeking a buyer for his prized possession, a signed photograph of sultry Brigitte Bardot, to pay for an operation, a popular tabloid reported on Wednesday.

Man staged nearly 100 car crashes in cash scam (Reuters)

Reuters - A Briton who cost the insurance industry some 1.6 million pounds by staging almost 100 car crashes as part of a scam to win fraudulent payouts, was jailed for 4-1/2 years on Wednesday.

Cheating husbands should be whipped? (Reuters)

Reuters - Most Bruneians want husbands who cheat on their wives to be whipped, according to a recent survey in the Muslim-majority country.

Elvis’ hair leaves the building — sold for $18,300 (Reuters)

Elvis Presley is pictured in his United States Army uniform in this undated publicity photograph. REUTERS/HandoutReuters - A pile of hair believed snipped from Elvis Presley when he joined the U.S. Army in 1958 sold for $18,300 on Sunday, according to a Chicago auction house.


Robber pleads guilty after leech provides DNA (Reuters)

An expert inspects a leech after it was used on a patient at the International Medical Leech Centre in the village of Udelnoye, some 30 kms from Moscow, December 23, 2003. REUTERS/Viktor KorotayevReuters - An Australian man faces jail for armed robbery after police used blood from a leech to make a DNA match from a 2001 crime scene, a court spokeswoman said on Monday.


Man robs shop on way to interrogation: German police (Reuters)

Police officers cast shadows while patrolling outside the U.S. Naval Academy during the Israeli-Palestinian peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, November 27, 2007. REUTERS/Molly RileyReuters - A 41-year-old man in Germany due to face questioning over theft got himself in even more trouble by squeezing in another robbery on the way to the police station, police said.


Balloon boy case a hoax, says sheriff; charges coming (Reuters)

Reuters - The flight of a home-made helium balloon that touched off a frantic rescue attempt for the young boy thought to be aboard was a publicity-seeking hoax, a Colorado sheriff said on Sunday.

Criminal charges to be filed in case of balloon boy (Reuters)

Reuters - Criminal charges will soon be filed in the case of a 6-year-old boy who spurred a frantic search for fear he was inside a wayward helium balloon, but who was later found safe at home, officials said on Saturday.

Colorado sheriff sees no hoax in balloon incident (Reuters)

Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden gives a thumbs up after hearing that six-year-old Falcon Heene was found safe in his house in Fort Collins, Colorado October 15, 2009. Falcon, who set off a massive search and rescue operation and media frenzy after it was reported he was inside a homemade helium balloon that broke loose and drifted for hours thousands of feet above Colorado has been found safe in his attic, police said on Thursday.  REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES SOCIETY)Reuters - A Colorado sheriff largely dismissed suggestions on Friday that a family of amateur scientists staged a hoax by reporting their 6-year-old son had floated away in a home-made helium balloon.


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