Two arrested over monkey meatballs (Reuters)
Reuters - Indonesian police have arrested a couple who made meatballs from the flesh of protected monkeys, an animal conservation group said on Wednesday.
Archive for April, 2010
Province to preserve chalk message (Reuters)
Reuters - Chinese experts are working to permanently preserve a chalk message written by President Hu Jintao this month at a school for survivors of a deadly quake in the remote Tibetan county of Yushu.
Owner of Stalin museum killed in Russia (Reuters)
Reuters - A Russian businessman who set up a museum dedicated to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was electrocuted and bludgeoned to death on Friday, media reported.
“Cougar effect” boosts lingerie sales (Reuters)
Reuters - Sales of sultry lingerie among older women are booming in Britain thanks to the glamorous 40-somethings of "Sex and the City 2" and "Cougar Town," retail chain Debenhams reported on Thursday.
Office survival guide sees humor in job misery (Reuters)
Reuters - Sometime during the recession, work -- or the lack of it -- became funny.
Hapless sailor takes a round trip (Reuters)
Reuters - A man who thought he was sailing along the coast of southern England had to be rescued by emergency services after his motor boat ran out of fuel while repeatedly circling a small island in the River Thames estuary.
Two arrested two over monkey meatballs (Reuters)
Reuters - Indonesian police have arrested a couple who made meatballs from the flesh of protected monkeys, an animal conservation group said on Wednesday.
Cleaners paint over priceless art (Reuters)
Reuters - An Australian council is rueing a decision to send street cleaners into a Melbourne lane after they painted over a priceless stencil of a rat by the celebrated British graffiti artist Banksy.
E-mail faux pas, like ones in Goldman case, common (Reuters)
Reuters - Goldman Sach's bond trader Fabrice Tourre has plenty to worry about, being accused of fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission. But his amorous emails made public in the case may have him losing even more sleep at night.
28 detained in beach “gigolo” raid (Reuters)
Reuters - Police on Indonesia's resort island of Bali detained 28 people this week in a crackdown on "beach gigolos," who scout for foreign female tourists, officials said on Tuesday.