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Canada drops plans for politically correct anthem (Reuters)

March 08th, 2010 Comments Off
Reuters - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral.

U.S. blacks, Hispanics losing more sleep over worries (Reuters)

March 08th, 2010 Comments Off
Reuters - Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey released on Monday found.

Seal meat to be on menu at Canadian Parliament (Reuters)

March 08th, 2010 Comments Off

Canadian Minister of Defence Peter MacKay gives a piece of seal meat to the Chief of Defence Staff General W.J. Natynczyk (L) during a community event in Iqaluit, Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic August 22, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Andy ClarkReuters - Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products.


Aussie underwear has gone bananas (Reuters)

March 05th, 2010 Comments Off
Reuters - Australian underwear company AussieBum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of men's underwear made with bananas.

Hamas bans men from women’s hair salons in Gaza (Reuters)

March 05th, 2010 Comments Off

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh prepares himself inside the plane before landing in Tehran December 7, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Suhaib SalemReuters - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women's hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders.


Pilot with fake licence arrested at airport (Reuters)

March 04th, 2010 Comments Off
Reuters - A Swedish pilot with a fake commercial license was arrested in his cockpit at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as he prepared to fly 101 passengers on a Boeing 737 to Turkey, Dutch police said Wednesday.

London stage fright: rats, mice and fleas: survey (Reuters)

March 04th, 2010 Comments Off
Reuters - Performers in London's West End are having to cope with a different kind of stage fright in the form of mice, rat and flea infestations in theatres, according to a new survey by actors' union Equity.

Chinese youth accused of not being fighting fit (Reuters)

March 04th, 2010 Comments Off

Children exercise during a weight-losing summer camp in Shenyang, Liaoning province, August 3, 2009. REUTERS/Sheng LiReuters - China must urgently address the physical fitness of the nation's youth or run the risk of raising a generation incapable of fighting the Japanese in a future war, the head of the country's top sports university said Thursday.


Canada may adopt gender-neutral national anthem (Reuters)

March 04th, 2010 Comments Off

Canadians celebrate by singing the Canadian national anthem at the Eternal Flame in Ottawa, February 28, 2010. REUTERS/Chris RoussakisReuters - "O Canada," the country's national anthem, has included the line, "True patriot love in all thy sons' command," for nearly 100 years.


Child’s play at air traffic tower sparks inquiry (Reuters)

March 03rd, 2010 Comments Off
Reuters - An investigation is underway into why a young child, apparently under an adult's supervision, was allowed to direct air traffic at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday.

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