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VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey,
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SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union,
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BOSTON (Reuters Life!) - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable For
Reuters - 2010-03-06 05:25:44
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - "O Canada," the country's national anthem, has included the line, "True patriot love in all thy sons' command," for nearly 100 year
USA Today - 2010-03-03 03:25:22
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Herd the latest? Miniature goats, 'tame' as dogs, blaze trails in U.S. neighborhoods
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USA Today - 2010-03-03 03:23:03
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Cities experiment with iPhone applications and other high-tech tools to eradicate blight and catch offenders.
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New Zealander auctions "ghosts" in a bottle

Reuters - 21 hours ago

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WELLINGTON (Reuters Life!) - A New Zealand woman sold two vials that she said contained the ghosts of an old man and a young girl for almost NZ$2,000

Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying

Reuters - 21 hours ago

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VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey,

"Dead" baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zoo

Reuters - 21 hours ago

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SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared

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Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU

Reuters - 21 hours ago

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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union,

Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse

Reuters - 21 hours ago

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NICOSIA (Reuters) - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Pap

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Residents flee Angolan village invaded by elephants

Reuters - 21 hours ago

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LUANDA (Reuters) - Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most

Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy

Reuters - 21 hours ago

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BOSTON (Reuters Life!) - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable For

U.S. blacks, Hispanics losing more sleep over worries

Reuters - 21 hours ago

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey rele

Canada drops plans for politically correct anthem

Reuters - 21 hours ago

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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa

Police: Calif. robber holds up 11 people, gets $6

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:17:14

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They say crime doesn't pay. For one robber in California, it did -- but not much.

Man allegedly robs pharmacy, puts cash on counter

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:17:09

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Police in northern Idaho arrested a robber accused of demanding a controlled drug from a pharmacy, then throwing cash on the counter before fleeing. K

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Woman delivers surprise baby, picks up other son

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:17:03

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A 32-year-old Kentucky woman who said she didn't know that she was pregnant delivered her newborn son on the floor of her laundry room by herself and

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Pet shop owner claims fish is 43, weighs 20 pounds

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:17:00

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It sounds fishy but a New York City pet shop owner says it's true. Buttkiss, the black pacu he owns, is 43 and weighs 20 pounds. A pacu is a breed tha

NYC chef creates breast milk cheese

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:16:56

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Breast milk cheese, anyone? A Manhattan chef has posted a recipe on his blog for what he calls "My spouse's mommy milk cheese." Daniel Angerer co-owns

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eBay item: Xbox that brought down Baltimore mayor

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:16:55

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Prosecutors in former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon's perjury case are putting the spoils of their efforts on eBay.

Pa. suit: Bank wrongly repossessed home, took bird

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:16:51

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A Pittsburgh-area woman is suing Bank of America , claiming it wrongfully repossessed her home and saying that a bank contractor trashed the house and

Police hunt for Teddy Roosevelt walrus tusk thief

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:16:46

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Authorities are hunting for the person who stole a 15-inch walrus tusk from Theodore Roosevelt's home on Long Island.

New Zealand woman sells souls to highest bidder

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:16:42

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The rare spirits that went under the gavel at a recent online auction in New Zealand weren't aged brandies or hard-to-find liqueurs.

'Old Baldy' horse head going back up in Philly

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:16:37

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A museum in Philadelphia will once again showcase the head of Old Baldy, the horse Gen. George Meade rode during many of the Civil War's most infamous

Police: Woman again tries using cabs to steal TVs

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:16:33

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Police said a North Pole woman accused in December of stealing televisions and hiring a cabbie as her getaway driver is now accused of trying it again

McDonald's parking spot dispute turns violent

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:16:28

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A long-running argument over a favorite McDonald's parking spot has resulted in an assault conviction. A Colorado jury on Friday convicted 52-year-old

Accused scratch-off thief returns to same store

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:16:23

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A Winter Haven man was arrested after authorities said he took a winning scratch-off ticket back to the store he had stolen it from a day earlier. The

Woman allegedly stabs ex after looking at phone

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:16:19

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Las Cruces police said a woman has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her ex-husband. Police said a 27-year-old woman was charged with three counts

Woman charged in breast milk assault on jailer

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:16:07

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A woman in jail for public intoxication was accused of assaulting a jailer by squirting breast milk at her. WYMT-TV reported that a 31-year-old woman

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Granny camps out 43 hours for grandson's ice cream

Boston Globe - 2010-03-10 14:16:07

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Here's one Wisconsin grandmother who makes time for her grandson. Michelle Cuestas of Green Bay used two vacation days and camped out for 43 hours to

Aussie underwear has gone bananas

Reuters - 2010-03-06 05:29:04

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SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Australian underwear company AussieBum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of men's underwear made with banan

Hamas bans men from women's hair salons in Gaza

Reuters - 2010-03-06 05:28:25

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GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women's hair salons, vowing to arrest a

Pilot with fake licence arrested at airport

Reuters - 2010-03-06 05:27:44

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Swedish pilot with a fake commercial license was arrested in his cockpit at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as he prepared to fly

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London stage fright: rats, mice and fleas: survey

Reuters - 2010-03-06 05:27:05

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LONDON (Reuters) - Performers in London's West End are having to cope with a different kind of stage fright in the form of mice, rat and flea infestat

Chinese youth accused of not being fighting fit

Reuters - 2010-03-06 05:26:25

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China must urgently address the physical fitness of the nation's youth or run the risk of raising a generation incapable of fighti

Canada may adopt gender-neutral national anthem

Reuters - 2010-03-06 05:25:44

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OTTAWA (Reuters) - "O Canada," the country's national anthem, has included the line, "True patriot love in all thy sons' command," for nearly 100 year

Police catch man snorting drugs on their car

Reuters - 2010-03-04 04:46:34

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BERLIN (Reuters) - German police detained a nightclub reveler they caught trying to snort amphetamines off the top of their unmarked patrol car.

Marriages last longer than living together?

Reuters - 2010-03-04 04:45:53

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. marriages last longer than unions where couples live together outside matrimony, the Centers for Disease Control reported

Mute Chicago film critic Ebert "voices" Oscar picks

Reuters - 2010-03-04 04:45:13

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Film critic Roger Ebert, rendered mute by several cancer surgeries, delivered his Oscar picks on Oprah Winfrey's television chat s

Conn. town warns residents about harmful hawk

Boston Globe - 2010-03-03 19:10:37

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Authorities said an aggressive red-tailed hawk has attacked at least five people recently in a Connecticut town, including a woman who needed medical

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Pa. man faces charges for 3 incidents in 3 hours

Boston Globe - 2010-03-03 19:10:31

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A central Pennsylvania man faces charges for three separate incidents involving police in a span of three hours. Manheim Township police said 49-year-

Tacoma police find naked woman tied to a tree

Boston Globe - 2010-03-03 19:10:28

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Several police officers responded to a 911 report of a naked woman tied to a tree in Point Defiance Park in Tacoma. Spokesman Mark Fulghum told The Ne

Ky. deputy tries to shoot his way out of cell

Boston Globe - 2010-03-03 19:10:22

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A Kentucky sheriff says a claustrophobic deputy has lost his job after accidentally locking himself in a jail cell and trying to shoot his way out of

Mad emu attacks deputies along El Paso freeway

Boston Globe - 2010-03-03 19:10:15

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A mad emu gave deputies a Texas-sized hard time. El Paso authorities say the big bird was running loose Tuesday, snarling rush-hour traffic near Inter

Mass. newlywed couple spend first night in jail

Boston Globe - 2010-03-03 19:10:11

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A Massachusetts newlywed couple didn't get to cuddle together during their first night as husband and wife. Instead, they spent the evening in separat

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Cops: 'Distracted' drunken driver slams into home

Boston Globe - 2010-03-03 19:10:06

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A couple escaped unharmed after they left their kitchen for the living room, just moments before a pickup truck came crashing through the kitchen wall

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Calif. couple who removed lawn plead not guilty

Boston Globe - 2010-03-03 19:10:02

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A California man who tried to save water and money by removing his front lawn is being taken to court. Quan Ha pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a misd

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Driver in doghouse after walking pet while in car

Boston Globe - 2010-03-03 19:09:57

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An English dog-owner has been fined after taking his pet for a stroll while driving next to him in his car. Prosecutors said Paul Railton was spotted

Fog from music video shoot spurs Pa. fire report

Boston Globe - 2010-03-03 19:09:53

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Northwestern Pennsylvania fire officials say fog being made for a music video prompted a restaurant to report a fire.

Ohio woman gets married, has baby on same day

Boston Globe - 2010-03-03 19:09:49

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An Ohio woman taken to a maternity ward in her wedding dress became a newlywed and a new mom on the same day.

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Goat fans, cities butting heads

USA Today - 2010-03-03 03:25:22

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Herd the latest? Miniature goats, 'tame' as dogs, blaze trails in U.S. neighborhoods

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Wiping out graffiti? Here's an app for that

USA Today - 2010-03-03 03:23:03

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Cities experiment with iPhone applications and other high-tech tools to eradicate blight and catch offenders.

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Tanks a lot...

Reuters - 2010-03-02 06:36:45

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - About 100 modern Russian tanks have been discovered abandoned on the side of a road in the country's Ural mountains, footage publis

Panda found eating like a pig

Reuters - 2010-03-02 06:36:08

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Hunger drove a wild panda to break into a Chinese farmer's pig pen and eat their food, which was meat and bone, rather than bamboo

Getting naked for art at the Sydney Opera House

Reuters - 2010-03-02 06:35:29

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Some 5,200 Australians posed naked in front of the Sydney Opera House on Monday for a photo shoot by New York-based artist Spencer

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