Debenhams offers gift list to celebrate divorce (Reuters)
Reuters - A British department store chain has created a gift list for those wishing to help a loved one with the pain...and party atmosphere of modern divorce.
Archive for January, 2010
Little lizards make big money for villagers (Reuters)
Reuters - A tiny Indonesian lizard has become big business for impoverished villagers in Indonesia, where growing Asian demand for reptile-based traditional medicines has driven a boom in gecko farming.
Stricter brothel rules? (Reuters)
Reuters - Amsterdam's deputy mayor proposed new measures Tuesday to help tackle forced prostitution, including restricting opening hours for brothels and raising the minimum age for prostitutes to 23 from 18.
Impromptu billboard porn film stops traffic (Reuters)
Reuters - An enormous television screen showing a pornographic film caused a midnight traffic jam in central Moscow Thursday as stunned motorists slammed on the brakes to gawk at the writhing naked bodies.
Care for a bite out of the Great Wall of China? (Reuters)
Reuters - The Great Wall never looked so tasty: a team of Chinese confectioners have built a 10 meter (33 ft) long replica of the structure entirely out of chocolate in a bid to entice Chinese to eat more of the sweet stuff.
Quiet please! Noise irks Japan’s commuters the most (Reuters)
Reuters - Taking the train in Japan and want to avoid annoying fellow passengers? Keep conversation to a whisper, turn down your iPod and put your cellphone on vibration mode, a recent survey by the railway association showed.
Maradona’s earring auctioned for $36,000 (Reuters)
Reuters - The earring that was confiscated from Diego Maradona as part payment of his tax arrears in Italy has been sold to an anonymous woman at auction for 25,000 euros ($36,000), a spokesman for the agency organizing the sale said Thursday.
Wild boar raids anger residents of forest (Reuters)
Reuters - Some of the first wild boar to roam free in England for 300 years have been raiding rubbish bins, attacking dogs and digging up green spaces in villages scattered around England's first national forest park.
Country’s only hippo escapes zoo during floods (Reuters)
Reuters - Montenegro's only hippopotamus escaped from the mountainous Adriatic nation's zoo during floods this week, officials said Wednesday.
Canada history magazine drops double-entendre name (Reuters)
Reuters - Canada's second-oldest magazine, The Beaver, is changing its name because its unintended sexual connotation has caused the history journal to become snagged in Internet filters and has turned off potential readers.