Archive for March, 2010

Unpaid Spanish air hostesses strip in protest (Reuters)

A flight attendant posing nude in a calendar picture is seen in this handout released March 31, 2010. REUTERS/Augusto Robert/HandoutReuters - Flight attendants owed up to nine months' wages by a grounded Spanish airline have posed nude for a calendar to draw attention to their plight, one of the cabin crew turned models said on Wednesday.


Wanted: Investors to turn Saddam’s villas into gold (Reuters)

An official security member walks outside a palace of former Iraq's President Saddam Hussein in Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad March 16, 2010. REUTERS/Sabah al-BazeeReuters - Saddam Hussein made his palaces a desert paradise, but now his hometown is seeking foreign investors to turn the late dictator's playground into a tourist mecca.


Committee backs banning veil in public (Reuters)

Reuters - A Belgian parliamentary committee voted Wednesday to ban the full Islamic face veil, a move that, if ratified, could make Belgium the first country to enforce such a ban.

“Ned Kelly” painting sells for record (Reuters)

Reuters - Australia's most expensive painting, a Sidney Nolan "Ned Kelly" work, was given away on Wednesday only days after setting the nation's art record.


Holy man resigns over sex scandal (Reuters)

Reuters - A Hindu holy man with thousands of followers across India resigned as head of a religious organization on Tuesday after police began investigating his role in a sex scandal, officials said.

Robbers tunnel into bank (Reuters)

Reuters - Robbers tunneled their way into the vault of a Parisian bank at the weekend and cracked almost 200 private safes, police said.

Pharaonic false door to the afterlife found (Reuters)

Reuters - Archaeologists in Luxor have uncovered a 3,500-year-old false door belonging to the tomb of a Pharaonic official, the Ministry of Culture said on Monday.

Bomb hoax delays cruise ship off Florida (Reuters)

Reuters - A Carnival cruise ship was held off the Florida coast for several hours on Sunday while authorities searched the vessel and arrested a drunk passenger on bomb hoax charges, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Man detained over poisoned dumplings (Reuters)

Reuters - China has detained a man suspected of poisoning frozen dumplings that were exported to Japan two years ago, sickening 10 people and causing tension between China and Japan.

Crocheting beats the Reich for odd title prize (Reuters)

Reuters - Defying grim predictions that the economic downturn would clobber specialist books, the annual contest for oddest title has had a bumper year, with the 2009 winner being named on Friday as "Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes."

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