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Italy finds proposal to skip lunch hard to digest
ROME (Reuters) - Food-loving Italy responded with indignation on Tuesday to a minister's comments that lunchbreaks -- still a sit-down ritual for many Italian workers -- are bad for waistlines and the economy, and should be skipped.
November 25, 2009, 12:55 am -
Police nab dozens of gambling seniors in Cyprus
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Police in Cyprus detained dozens of elderly women for gambling, a popular but banned past-time on the east Mediterranean island.
November 24, 2009, 10:14 pm -
Judge blocks law allowing guns in bars
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A judge on Friday blocked a Tennessee law that allowed people to bring handguns into restaurants and bars.
November 24, 2009, 8:00 am -
Cops on trail of "gingerbread town" vandals
OSLO (Reuters) - The people of Bergen rolled out the cookie dough Monday as local police tried to sniff out vandals who destroyed the Norwegian city's traditional Christmas decoration -- a town of gingerbread houses.
November 24, 2009, 8:00 am -
Darwin book worth up to $100,000 found on shelf
A first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," which had been kept in a toilet bookcase for years, will go on sale this week and is expected to fetch 40-60,000 pounds ($66-100,000).
November 24, 2009, 7:59 am -
Don't kiss Santa, he may have the flu
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Santa Claus should avoid kissing children and shaking their hands to prevent spreading the flu and should get vaccinated against the illness, Hungary's state health authority said.
November 24, 2009, 7:56 am -
Aging Santa gets $100,000 facelift for Christmas
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A Santa in New Zealand with a droopy eye has received a NZ$100,000 ($74,000) face-lift in the run-up to Christmas so that his aging face does not scare children.
November 24, 2009, 2:33 am -
Houston, we have a baby
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik awoke early on Sunday to a much-anticipated call that his new daughter had been born.
November 23, 2009, 7:08 pm -
Italy collector finds Galileo's lost tooth, fingers
ROME (Reuters) - An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum announced on Friday.
November 21, 2009, 6:14 am -
Diplomats arrested for cigarette smuggling
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish police have arrested two North Korean diplomats on suspicion of smuggling 230,000 cigarettes into the Nordic country, the Swedish Customs Office said Friday.
November 21, 2009, 5:04 am -
Gang accused of killing to sell human fat
LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.
November 21, 2009, 5:03 am -
New EU president wins fans in Japan -- as a poet
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union's new president, may not be very well known around the world but he's already winning fans in Japan -- as a poet rather than a politician.
November 21, 2009, 4:43 am -
New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world
November 20, 2009, 10:21 am -
U.S. election, iPhone among decade's top 10 Internet moments
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards.
November 20, 2009, 10:20 am -
All Blacks face dressing down over Twitter leak
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Neemia Tialata and Cory Jane can expect a talking to from All Blacks coach Graham Henry after revealing on the social networking site Twitter they had been left out of the New Zealand to play England this weekend.
November 20, 2009, 12:47 am -
Obama gets five minutes with half-brother in China
BEIJING (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took time out of his busy diplomatic schedule in China to meet with his half-brother, who lives in the southern part of the country -- but only for five minutes.
November 19, 2009, 8:09 am -
Lost man drives nine hours to get newspaper
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An elderly man who went out to fetch a morning newspaper ended up driving nearly 400 miles after getting lost and taking a wrong turn onto a major Australian highway, police said on Wednesday.
November 19, 2009, 6:56 am -
Lawmaker apologizes for insulting rival on Twitter
OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian member of Parliament learned the hard way on Tuesday that insulting a rival legislator by Twitter is not a good idea, especially if you're sitting around the same table at the time.
November 19, 2009, 6:52 am -
Johnny Depp named People's "sexiest man alive"
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" on Wednesday, reclaiming a title he first won in 2003.
November 19, 2009, 6:24 am -
U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry
PERKASIE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop.
November 19, 2009, 2:03 am
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