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Teenager fights off shark with board (Reuters)

February 3, 2010 by admin

Reuters - A 14-year old New Zealand girl has been praised for fighting off a shark with her boogie board after it had bitten her. The shark bit Lydia Ward on the hip as she was standing in waist-deep water on a beach near the southern New Zealand city of Invercargill on Monday, the Southland Times newspaper reported.

Doctor casts new light on cat that can predict death (Reuters)

February 2, 2010 by admin

Reuters - When doctors and staff realized that a cat living in a U.S. nursing home could sense when someone was going to die, the feline, Oscar, was portrayed as a furry grim reaper or four-legged angel of death.

Bestiality ban to cut video source (Reuters)

February 2, 2010 by admin

Reuters - The Internet potentially will lose one of its main sources of bestiality videos under a ban approved Tuesday by the upper house of the Dutch parliament.

Star power: celebrity endorsements surge at Grammys (Reuters)

February 2, 2010 by admin

Reuters - Would the Black Eyed Peas persuade you to shop at Target or Eric Clapton lure you to switch to T-Mobile?

Branding ban on cigarette packs? (Reuters)

February 1, 2010 by admin

Reuters - The UK government launched plans on Monday to halve the number of smokers by the end of the decade and said it would consider removing branding from cigarette packets and banning cigarette vending machines.

Tribe brings back dead with "clothing" ritual (Reuters)

February 1, 2010 by admin

Reuters - Members of the Hanunuo Mangyan tribe in the Philippines do not leave their dead in the grave for long, digging up the remains of loved ones in an unusual revival ritual that itself is slowly dying out.

China sees sexual frustration causing social problems (Reuters)

February 1, 2010 by admin

Reuters - Sexual frustration amongst migrant workers in China's booming southern province of Guangdong is leading to a host of social problems and must be tackled, state media on Saturday cited a local official as saying.

Oysters - the Tudor version of cinema popcorn (Reuters)

January 29, 2010 by admin

Reuters - Elizabethan theater-goers chomped on an exotic array of foods while enjoying the latest plays of the day, new evidence found at the sites of Shakespearean playhouses in London suggests.

Priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance (Reuters)

January 29, 2010 by admin

Reuters - A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday.

Boy faces court for bee sting prank (Reuters)

January 28, 2010 by admin

Reuters - A prank has had serious repercussions for an Indonesian boy facing criminal charges because he caused a classmate to be stung by a bee, the Jakarta Post reported on Thursday.