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Canada drops plans for politically correct anthem (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:28:13 +0000

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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:24:53 +0000

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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:24:23 +0000

Reuters - 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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:11:58 +0000

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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:06:45 +0000

Reuters - 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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:53:13 +0000

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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:52:53 +0000

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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:52:33 +0000

Reuters - 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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:51:23 +0000

Reuters - "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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:56:31 +0000

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.

Army nixes raid after Facebook leak? (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:56:04 +0000

Reuters - The Israeli military called off a raid in Palestinian territory after a soldier posted details, including the time and place, on social networking website Facebook, Israel's Army Radio reported Wednesday.

“Hurt Locker” producers sued days before Oscars (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:55:09 +0000

Reuters - A U.S. Army sergeant on Tuesday sued the makers of Oscar-nominated film "The Hurt Locker" five days before the Academy Awards, claiming the central character in the film is based on him.

Marriages last longer than living together? (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:35:02 +0000

Reuters - U.S. marriages last longer than unions where couples live together outside matrimony, the Centers for Disease Control reported on Tuesday.

Tanks a lot… (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:08:09 +0000

Reuters - About 100 modern Russian tanks have been discovered abandoned on the side of a road in the country's Ural mountains, footage published Saturday by websites showed.

Panda found eating like a pig (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:07:32 +0000

Reuters - Hunger drove a wild panda to break into a Chinese farmer's pig pen and eat their food, which was meat and bone, rather than bamboo.

Baby born in traffic jam as leader drives by (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:00:45 +0000

Reuters - A Pakistani woman gave birth to a baby girl in an auto-rickshaw stuck in a traffic jam when police closed roads to let President Asif Ali Zardari's motorcade drive by.

Man must pay for injury caused in suicide bid (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:25:15 +0000

Reuters - A court ruled that a Russian man must pay more than 100,000 rubles ($3,330) for medical bills and damages to the parents of a girl he hit when he jumped from a window in a suicide attempt.

Man caught robbing same bank twice in 24 hours (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:24:31 +0000

Reuters - A German robber held up the same bank in Hamburg twice within 24 hours just a week after being released from jail -- for the same crime.

Boozy chimp sent to rehab (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:23:41 +0000

Reuters - A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday. An ex-performer, Zhora became aggressive at his circus and was transferred to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fathered several baby chimps, learned to draw with markers and picked up his two vices.

Tax officials caught over unpaid fines (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:13:02 +0000

Reuters - There were some embarrassed faces at Bulgaria's tax office on Thursday after an investigation found more than 400 tax inspectors had failed to pay their traffic fines.