Johnny Depp named People’s “sexiest man alive” (Reuters)
Reuters - "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" on Wednesday, reclaiming a title he first won in 2003.
Archive for November, 2009
Trapped thief drops trousers in bungled burglary (Reuters)
Reuters - He wiggled, jiggled and even dropped his trousers, but a thief trying to break into a supermarket in Portugal stayed stuck fast in a tiny window until he was rescued by police and the fire brigade.
Make toilets cool to fix sanitation woes? (Reuters)
Reuters - Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization, has a theory about why governments and people are so reluctant to talk about hygiene: it isn't cool.
What’s in a name? More than you might think (Reuters)
Reuters - A London-based translation firm is offering parents-to-be the chance to check the meaning of prospective baby names in other languages to avoid inadvertently causing their offspring future embarrassment.
Make toilets cool to fix sanitation woes, expert says (Reuters)
Reuters - Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization, has a theory about why governments and people are so reluctant to talk about hygiene: it isn't cool.
What’s in an unusual name? More than you might think (Reuters)
Reuters - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes might have thought twice about naming their daughter Suri if they'd known that it means "pickpocket" in Japanese, "turned sour" in French, and "horse mackerels" in Italian.
Robber behind “perfect crime” surrenders (Reuters)
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.
Women disappointed by Gaddafi “party” (Reuters)
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.
Cannibals nabbed selling corpse to kebab house (Reuters)
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.
Obama in a grass skirt? Hawaii to host APEC 2011 (Reuters)
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.