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Woman buries brother, discovers dead son (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:58:58 +0000

Reuters - A French woman discovered her 42-year-old son had been buried in the same cemetery where she was attending her brother's funeral, after she had tried to invite him to the ceremony, a newspaper said Friday.

Harry the croc picks Labor in Australia snap poll (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:56:30 +0000

Reuters - Dirty Harry the saltwater crocodile has picked, or should that be bitten, Australia's Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard to win Saturday's cliffhanger general election.

Robber nabbed after mocking police in email (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:50:53 +0000

Reuters - A German bank robber led his pursuers straight to him after taunting police in an email over their efforts to catch him. Authorities in the southern city of Wuerzburg said on Wednesday the 19-year-old sent emails to police and two newspapers to point out factual errors in the report of his bank raid in the town of Roettingen a week ago.

Pilots on alert for high-flying vulture (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:50:32 +0000

Reuters - Britain's air traffic controllers put pilots on alert this week after a vulture which can soar as high as 30,000 feet escaped from her handlers during a display.

Vuvuzelas make it into the Oxford dictionary (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:49:45 +0000

Reuters - The ever-present hum of the vuvuzela during this year's soccer World Cup catapulted the plastic trumpet to prominence and now it has earned a place in the Oxford Dictionary of English.

Canadian police find bears guarding pot crop (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:49:13 +0000

Reuters - A pair of marijuana growers in Western Canada appear to have been using bears to protect their illegal crop, but the well-fed animals proved to be a bit lax in their guard duties, police said on Wednesday.

Police bust Paris “booby” trap gang (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:54:41 +0000

Reuters - French police have arrested two teenage girls they say stole hundreds of euros from unsuspecting cash machine customers after distracting them by flashing their breasts.

Singapore extends jail term for Swiss graffiti man (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:54:08 +0000

Reuters - A Singapore court on Wednesday extended a jail term for a Swiss man by two months to seven and maintained an earlier ruling that he receives three strokes of the cane for trespassing and spray-painting graffiti on a train.

Comic character’s McDonald’s binge sparks Gallic outcry (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:53:46 +0000

Reuters - A new McDonald's ad featuring Gallic champion Asterix enjoying a burger and fries has sparked outrage among French comic purists who see it as an insult to their national heritage.

All that glitters isn’t gold, some of it is wine (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:35:56 +0000

Reuters - Like gold, top wines are highly prized, represent wealth and are selling near their historical highs.

Athlete blames cat over drunk driving charge (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:35:11 +0000

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.

Skateboarding priest becomes YouTube hit (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:35:18 +0000

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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:13:49 +0000

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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:10:32 +0000

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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:57:11 +0000

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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:56:47 +0000

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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:02:08 +0000

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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:01:23 +0000

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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:00:05 +0000

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)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:44:57 +0000

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.