Athlete blames cat over drunk driving charge (Reuters)
Reuters - Cricket star Graeme Swann told a police officer who stopped him for drunk driving that he had had to go out to buy screwdrivers to rescue his trapped cat, a court heard Monday.
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Skateboarding priest becomes YouTube hit (Reuters)
Reuters - A Hungarian Roman Catholic priest has become a YouTube hit with his distinctive method of spreading the word on wheels.
Aboriginal elder leads police to body — but wrong one (Reuters)
Reuters - An Aboriginal elder who claimed to have seen the location of a missing child in a dream has led Australian police to a body -- but it was not the corpse of a child but of an adult woman.
Officials ordered to quit club following outcry (Reuters)
Reuters - More than 30 Chinese government officials have been ordered to relinquish their membership of a luxurious golf club in the wealthy eastern city of Wenzhou after a torrent of online criticism, state media reported on Friday.
U.S. to commemorate WWII with “kiss-in” (Reuters)
Reuters - Americans will gather for a group "kiss-in" in Times Square and buglers across the country will play the military funeral tune "Taps" on Saturday in the first national day of remembrance for the World War Two generation.
Top food was olives in time of the ancient mariner (Reuters)
Reuters - A huge quantity of olive stones on an ancient shipwreck more than 2,000 years old has provided valuable insight into the diet of sailors in the ancient world, researchers in Cyprus said Thursday.
Traffickers hide cocaine under rare python (Reuters)
Reuters - Italian police seized a rare albino python in Rome Wednesday in a raid on a group of drug traffickers who used the snake to guard cocaine and intimidate customers who owed them money.
UK bans offensive Anti-Terrorist Hotline radio ads (Reuters)
Reuters - Britain's advertising watchdog said on Wednesday it had banned a police advertisement encouraging people to report neighbors whose activities raised "suspicions," saying it could offend innocent citizens.
Martin Luther has Wittenberg in a stir 500 years on (Reuters)
Reuters - About 800 colorful statuettes of 16th-century Protestant reformer Martin Luther are popping up in the eastern German town of Wittenberg, where Luther first railed against some practices of the Roman Catholic church almost 500 years ago.
Leader in hot water over bread scandal (Reuters)
Reuters - German president Christian Wulff's preference for bread and baked goods made in distant Hanover has got the country's newly elected head of state into hot water.