Archive for September, 2010
Posted on September 30, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Shooting game angers victims’ relatives (Reuters)
Reuters - A German student has created a computer game giving players a taste of life as an East German border guard shooting political fugitives fleeing to the West, to the outrage of victims' relatives.Posted on September 30, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Boston firefighters get oxygen masks for pets (Reuters)
Reuters - The Boston Fire Department on Wednesday received a donation of small oxygen masks designed for pets, which will become standard equipment on every fire truck in the city, officials said.Posted on September 30, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Feeling groggy? Blame the ship’s doctor (Reuters)
Reuters - In the days when Britannia ruled the waves, Royal Navy doctors revived drowning men with tobacco smoke, treated scorpion stings with rum and advised sailors to gargle with sulphuric acid to combat scurvy.Posted on September 29, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Man beats odds to win lottery twice (Reuters)
Reuters - For a Missouri man, luck comes in pairs.Posted on September 29, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Police investigate family on polygamy TV show (Reuters)
Reuters - The new reality TV show "Sister Wives," featuring a real-life advertising salesman and four women he calls his spouses, has sparked a criminal bigamy investigation by police in Utah, officials said.Posted on September 29, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
TV host announces wrong winner for Top Model (Reuters)
Reuters - Producers of Australia's Next Top Model have been left red faced after supermodel host Sarah Murdoch announced the wrong winner in what newspapers said was the country's most awkward TV moment.Posted on September 28, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Gym culture not working out for the French (Reuters)
Reuters - The French may love to look good but few are willing to work up a sweat over it.
Posted on September 28, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Three jailed for tourist scams (Reuters)
Reuters - Three people have been jailed for carrying out a scam to steal from more than 100 Japanese tourists in central London, police said on Tuesday.Posted on September 28, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Atheists, Jews top religious knowledge survey (Reuters)
Reuters - They may not believe in God or gods but they know a thing or two about them.Posted on September 28, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Millionaire Segway owner dies in cliff fall (Reuters)
Reuters - The British millionaire businessman who owns the firm Segway has been found dead at the bottom of a cliff with one of the two-wheeled electric scooters near his body, police said on Monday.
