Archive for January, 2010

Oysters – the Tudor version of cinema popcorn (Reuters)

A customer eats raw oysters at the Fish Warf in Washington August 15, 2008. REUTERS/Molly RileyReuters - Elizabethan theater-goers chomped on an exotic array of foods while enjoying the latest plays of the day, new evidence found at the sites of Shakespearean playhouses in London suggests.


Priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance (Reuters)

Reuters - A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday.

Boy faces court for bee sting prank (Reuters)

Reuters - A prank has had serious repercussions for an Indonesian boy facing criminal charges because he caused a classmate to be stung by a bee, the Jakarta Post reported on Thursday.

Pork better for sex than Viagra? (Reuters)

Eating pork is at least as effective as popping a Viagra pill to spice up your sex life, according to Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, seen here in 2009 and who claims to have tested the theory.(AFP/File/Miguel Rojo)Reuters - Argentina's president recommended pork as an alternative to Viagra Wednesday, saying she spent a satisfying weekend with her husband after eating barbecued pork.


Man torches car battling frost (Reuters)

Reuters - A 76-year-old German man trying to thaw out his car incinerated it instead when he decided to speed things up by putting a blow heater under the hood.

Mobsters buck downturn, may target bourse (Reuters)

Reuters - Italy's mafia crime syndicates bucked the recession in 2009 to raise 'profits' by almost 8 percent with the financial crisis making companies and even the stock market even more vulnerable to cash-flush mobsters.

Draft law to jail dog eaters whets debate (Reuters)

Reuters - A proposal to jail people who eat dog meat for up 15 days has caused controversy in China, where dog hot pot is traditionally popular.

Church offers for a prayer for wedding day nerves (Reuters)

Reuters - The Church of England is offering to pray for lovestruck couples to help ease any jitters ahead of their wedding day.

Leader slaughters goats to ward off evil? (Reuters)

Reuters - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has a black goat slaughtered at his house almost every day to ward off "evil eyes" and protect him from "black magic," a newspaper reported Wednesday.

Dog washed out to sea has lucky escape (Reuters)

Reuters - A dog had a lucky escape when a Polish boat rescued him from an ice floe that had carried him more than 100 miles up a river and out onto the icy waters of the Baltic Sea.

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