Palin mask top pick for Halloween
Here's the hottest Halloween costume of the year - a mask of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
22 minutes agoBERLIN (Reuters) - A German village was on Saturday unveiling a monument to the Scottish-born Prussian Field Marshall James Keith, in a rare act of remembrance in a country that has spend decades distancing itself from its military past.
October 12, 2008, 7:17 amJUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - A senior official in South Sudan who ordered a crackdown on young women wearing tight trousers has been sacked, officials said Saturday.
October 11, 2008, 11:44 pmMANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaragua's leftist President Daniel Ortega, a U.S. foe since the Cold War, said God was punishing the United States with the financial crisis for trying to impose its economic principles on poor countries.
October 11, 2008, 7:07 amSTOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Swedish Academy is concerned its decision to award Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio the Nobel Prize for Literature may have leaked ahead of the announcement, a prominent member of the academy was quoted as saying on Friday.
October 11, 2008, 5:00 amBEIJING (Reuters) - Culture fans thousands of miles from Beijing can now visit its famous Forbidden City, through a three dimensional recreation of the vast palace that also allows them to dress up as an imperial eunuch and meet a courtesan.
October 11, 2008, 4:59 amLONDON (Reuters) - Great scenery and wildlife but financial situation in need of repair -- collect in person.
October 11, 2008, 12:14 amWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists using DNA testing have confirmed the second-known instance of "virgin birth" in a shark -- a female Atlantic blacktip shark named Tidbit that produced a baby without a male shark.
October 10, 2008, 6:02 pmFREETOWN (Reuters) - Demolition teams wielding axes and machetes this week smashed up popular beach bars, one still bearing a sign saying "Paradise," as part of an improvement scheme to develop tourism in Sierra's Leone's capital Freetown.
October 10, 2008, 6:29 amSAN DIEGO (Reuters) - All over sunny San Diego, tough economic times have forced people to cut back on their $4 lattes and sushi dinners.
October 10, 2008, 6:24 amLONDON (Reuters) - Police could one day predict the surname of male suspects or victims of crime from DNA alone, researchers said on Wednesday.
October 10, 2008, 2:36 amHANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese authorities are hunting for a brazen masked criminal who robbed a district police station, state media reported on Thursday.
October 10, 2008, 2:35 amKARALETI, Georgia (Reuters) - Two Russian soldiers almost missed their unit's withdrawal from Georgia on Wednesday after spending the night sobering up in a police cell, Georgian police said.
October 10, 2008, 2:34 amNEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is distantly related to the late Princess Diana and late U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, genealogy experts said on Wednesday.
October 10, 2008, 2:34 amBUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - How long will an unchained bicycle last on a city street before someone steals it?
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