Home › Feed aggregator › Sources

Reuters' Odd News

Syndicate content Reuters News
Reuters.com is your source for breaking news, business, financial and investing news, including personal finance and stocks. Reuters is the leading global provider of news, financial information and technology solutions to the world's media, financial institutions, businesses and individuals.
URL: http://www.reuters.com
Updated: 1 hour 24 min ago

Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU

March 10, 2010 - 12:46pm
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.

"Dead" baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zoo

March 10, 2010 - 12:34pm
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb.

Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying

March 10, 2010 - 12:32pm
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.

New Zealander auctions "ghosts" in a bottle

March 10, 2010 - 12:31pm
WELLINGTON (Reuters Life!) - A New Zealand woman sold two vials that she said contained the ghosts of an old man and a young girl for almost NZ$2,000 ($1,410) after a fiercely contested online auction, local media reported.

Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse

March 10, 2010 - 7:09am
NICOSIA (Reuters) - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday.

Ex-president's body stolen for ransom, Cyprus says

March 9, 2010 - 11:06am
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus said Tuesday ransom was the motive of thieves who stole the body of former President Tassos Papadopoulos, found in a shallow grave Monday three months after it disappeared from its tomb.

Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy

March 9, 2010 - 10:54am
BOSTON (Reuters Life!) - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds.

Residents flee Angolan village invaded by elephants

March 9, 2010 - 10:50am
LUANDA (Reuters) - Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most of its 4,000 residents to flee to neighboring Namibia, a local official said Tuesday.

Canada drops plans for politically correct anthem

March 8, 2010 - 11:28am
OTTAWA (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

March 8, 2010 - 11:24am
NEW YORK (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

March 8, 2010 - 11:24am
OTTAWA (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

March 5, 2010 - 12:11pm
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - 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

March 5, 2010 - 12:09pm
GAZA (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.

Chinese youth accused of not being fighting fit

March 4, 2010 - 10:19am
BEIJING (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.

Pilot with fake licence arrested at airport

March 4, 2010 - 8:53am
AMSTERDAM (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

March 4, 2010 - 8:52am
LONDON (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.

Canada may adopt gender-neutral national anthem

March 4, 2010 - 8:51am
OTTAWA (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

March 3, 2010 - 2:42pm
NEW YORK (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.

"Hurt Locker" producers sued days before Oscars

March 3, 2010 - 12:07pm
LOS ANGELES (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.

Army nixes raid after Facebook leak?

March 3, 2010 - 11:04am
JERUSALEM (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.