Theme park highlights challenges facing dwarfs (Reuters)
Reuters - Sitting in a valley in southwest China sits an unlikely and controversial theme park -- the Little People's Kingdom of dwarfs.
Archive for March, 2010
Film breaks new ground on sex in India (Reuters)
Reuters - A new Bollywood film has put the spotlight on changing sexual mores in small-town India, unsettling conservative filmgoers with spy cam footage and pushing the limits of the country's censorship board.
Church issues prayers for confused UK voters (Reuters)
Reuters - The Church of England has published prayers to help confused and cynical voters ahead of Britain's upcoming election.
Man gets 15 years for prison break-in (Reuters)
Reuters - A Florida man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for trying to break back into the jail where he had been held following his conviction in a manslaughter case, local media reported on Wednesday.
Airport worker warned in scanner ogling claim (Reuters)
Reuters - A security worker at London's Heathrow Airport has received a police warning and faces disciplinary action over claims he ogled a female colleague using a full-body scanner, officials said on Wednesday.
Dracula creator’s relative seeks Dublin memorial (Reuters)
Reuters - The Victorian Gothic novel Dracula is associated with the dense forests of Transylvania rather than the Georgian squares of Dublin, but the great great nephew of its Irish born author thinks that is an oversight.
Woman arrested for setting hitmen on her father (Reuters)
Reuters - An Italian woman who hired two assassins to murder her overbearing father was arrested after the second hitman changed his mind and confessed to the police, authorities said Tuesday.
Super-sizing the “Last Supper” (Reuters)
Reuters - We've been overeating our way through ever-larger portions over the past 1,000 years, a U.S. study revealed after studying more than 50 paintings of the Biblical Last Supper.
Bill would lessen teen “sexting” charge (Reuters)
Reuters - Connecticut lawmakers are considering a way to keep young people off the state's sex offender registry if convicted of "sexting."
Bee sting therapy causing a buzz (Reuters)
Reuters - Being stung by a bee would have most people rushing to hospital, expect at one Beijing clinic where patients queue up to be pricked into good health.