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Bong bust leaves crims crackers

20 Nov 2009, 3:07PM

Customs officials in the US have uncovered 316,000 smoking bongs disguised as Christmas ornaments.Read more

Cinema popcorn 'a nutritional horror'

Popcorn

20 Nov 2009, 12:31PM

Forget Freddy Krueger or flesh-eating zombies: the real villain of a night at the movies could be lurking in a bag of popcorn or drinks carton. Read more

Santa's elves banned from writing to kids

Child's letter to Santa Claus, care of North Pole, Alaska (Getty)

20 Nov 2009, 9:06AM

Children who write to Santa, care of North Pole, Alaska may have to go without a reply - after one of his helpers was identified as a sex offender. Read more

Fortune left at shrine 'for safe-keeping'

Picture of Virgin Mary and baby Jesus (AAP)

19 Nov 2009, 1:36PM

A US woman left her life-savings - $40,000 in rare coins - at a Catholic shrine so the Virgin Mary would watch over them while she was out of town. Read more

Thief trades cash for conscience

French robber gives up Getty

18 Nov 2009, 5:15PM

Attack of conscience or calculated move? French police want to know why an armoured car driver who made off with 2.5 million euros gave himself up. Read more

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Italy collector finds Galileo's lost tooth, fingers

21 Nov 2009, 4:23AM

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. Read more

New EU president wins fans in Japan - - as a poet

21 Nov 2009, 2:42AM

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. Read more

New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles

20 Nov 2009, 2:50AM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world divided up among a half-dozen species of unusual and perhaps intelligent crocodiles, researchers reported on Thursday. Read more

Girl, 10, tasered in shower row

Girl, 10, tasered in shower row

19 Nov 2009, 10:26AM

A US policeman used a taser stun gun on a 10-year-old girl because her mother was angry that she would not take a shower before going to bed.

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Obama gets five minutes with half - brother in China

18 Nov 2009, 9:38PM

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. 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. Read more

Japan's marathon queen Takahashi to run veggie far

17 Nov 2009, 5:55PM

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's former Olympic marathon gold medallist Naoko Takahashi has decided to become a vegetable farmer. Read more

Italian women disappointed by Gaddafi "party"

17 Nov 2009, 3:01AM

ROME (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a U.N. food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported on Monday. Read more

NZ team to drill for whisky in Antarctic

NZ team to drill for whisky in Antarctic

16 Nov 2009, 6:57AM

A team of New Zealanders will use special drills to free trapped crates full of supplies - including whisky - left behind by explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in Antarctica. Read more

Mock funeral mourns Venice's shrinking population

15 Nov 2009, 5:52AM

VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - A procession of gondolas accompanied a pink coffin along Venice's Grand Canal on Saturday in a mock funeral to protest against the steep decline in the city's population. Read more

Chavez gives 'fat people' dietary advice

Chavez gives 'fat people' dietary advice

14 Nov 2009, 1:55PM

President Hugo Chavez advised his supporters in a televised speech to exercise and eat healthy to trim their waistlines. Read more