Rome taxis seek to wipe out tourist scams (Reuters)
Reuters - Rome's largest taxi cooperative is trying to improve the bad name of the city's cabbies, notorious among tourists to one of the world's best loved cities.
Archive for November, 2009
Goncourt winner Littell wins Bad Sex Award (Reuters)
Reuters - Jonathan Littell, who won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2006 for "The Kindly Ones," has picked up another prize for the same work -- the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
Bulgarians name brandy after PM after tax victory (Reuters)
Reuters - Bulgarian villagers have named their home-made rakia brandy "Borisovka," playing on the name of Prime Minister Boiko Borisov to thank him for stopping parliament from raising taxes on alcohol.
“Coffee police” fight fraud on shop shelves (Reuters)
Reuters - Brazil's coffee industry is engaged in a tireless battle against rogue roasters who cut corners and costs by bulking up their products with corn, soy or even wood, the ABIC industry association says.
Irish use strike day to shop across border (Reuters)
Reuters - Irish workers caused traffic jams on Tuesday as hundreds made use of a one-day public sector strike to do some Christmas shopping in the cheaper stores across the border in Northern Ireland.
Hitler’s favorite car makes comeback? (Reuters)
Reuters - A car expert says he has tracked down Hitler's favorite Mercedes to a garage near the town that helped the Austrian-born Fuehrer become a German citizen.
Using your plastic for plastic surgery.. (Reuters)
Reuters - Unfazed by a recession and rampant inflation, image-conscious Venezuelans show no signs of cutting back on the facelifts, liposuction, and breast augmentation that have become de rigueur beauty treatments.
Man robbed of $2 million bank withdrawal (Reuters)
Reuters - A man in Taiwan was robbed of more than $2 million in cash that he had just withdrawn from the bank, a police official said on Tuesday.
Judge blocks law allowing guns in bars (Reuters)
Reuters - A judge on Friday blocked a Tennessee law that allowed people to bring handguns into restaurants and bars.
Cops on trail of “gingerbread town” vandals (Reuters)
Reuters - The people of Bergen rolled out the cookie dough Monday as local police tried to sniff out vandals who destroyed the Norwegian city's traditional Christmas decoration -- a town of gingerbread houses.