Reuters: Oddly Enough News

Man provides photo for his own wanted poster

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:46:13 +0000

LONDON (Reuters) - A man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local paper because he disliked the mugshot they had printed of him as part of a public appeal to track him down.

Airport to run bus with fuel from organic waste

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:53:41 +0000

LONDON (Reuters) - East Midlands Airport will try to run a bus with a fuel produced from decomposing organic waste, the fuel producer Gasrec said on Monday.

Hebrew Bible stolen by Nazis returned to Austria

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:20:39 +0000

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A nearly 500-year-old Hebrew Bible stolen by the Nazis shortly before World War Two was returned to the Jewish community of Vienna on Monday, U.S. officials said.

Miss England gives up crown over brawl reports

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:54:33 +0000

LONDON (Reuters) - Beauty pageant winner Miss England gave up her title on Friday after reports she had been involved in a nightclub brawl with another beauty queen.

London commuters baffled by sex broadcast

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:57:32 +0000

LONDON (Reuters) - London commuters listening out for the latest news about train services got a broadcast with a difference when the noise of a couple apparently having sex was blasted out over a station's loudspeaker system.

Malaysia irked by pregnant athlete's pull-out

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:15:08 +0000

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A 16-week pregnant athlete faces sanction from Malaysian sports authorities for pulling out of December's Southeast Asian Games, local media reported Friday.

Driver suspected in Bank of France van heist

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:41:42 +0000

LYON, France (Reuters) - French police are looking for the driver of a security van suspected of driving off with more than 10 million euros (8.97 million pounds) after the man vanished, apparently after first clearing out his flat.

Who built Berlin Wall? Most Russians don't know

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:11:57 +0000

MOSCOW (Reuters) - More than half of all Russians do not know who built the Berlin Wall, one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War, an opinion poll showed Thursday.

Day of the locusts for German investor critic

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:23:13 +0000

BERLIN (Reuters) - Back in 2005, German politician Franz Muentefering likened unscrupulous financial investors to locusts that chewed up firms and moved on. Now he is eating the winged insects.

Giant snake capture was a hoax - Florida agents

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:56:11 +0000

MIAMI (Reuters) - A man who caught a 14-foot (4.2-metre) python in a Florida drain pipe was charged with perpetrating a hoax after wildlife officers discovered he owned the snake and put it in the pipe in order to stage the capture.