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"Dead" baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zoo (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - 10 hours 5 min ago

Taronga Zoo veterinarians give treatment to a newborn elephant calf as its mother Porntip (R) stands next to it in Sydney March 10, 2010. An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb. REUTERS/Taronga Zoo/Bobby-Jo Vial/HandoutReuters - An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb.


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Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - 10 hours 7 min ago

Canada's Sidney Crosby celebrates after scoring the game winning goal against the U.S. during overtime in their men's ice hockey gold medal game at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics February 28, 2010. REUTERS/Todd KorolReuters - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.


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New Zealander auctions "ghosts" in a bottle (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - 10 hours 8 min ago
Reuters - 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 ($1,410) after a fiercely contested online auction, local media reported.
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Seal meat to be on menu at Canadian Parliament (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - 10 hours 59 min ago
Reuters - Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products.
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Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - 15 hours 30 min ago

Cyprus' President Tassos Papadopoulos addresses a news conference at the end of a European Union Heads of State and Government summit in Brussels December 14, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Ezequiel ScagnettiReuters - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday.


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Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:54
Reuters - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds.
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Residents flee Angolan village invaded by elephants (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:50
Reuters - Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most of its 4,000 residents to flee to neighboring Namibia, a local official said Tuesday.
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Cyprus police find stolen corpse of ex-president (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:47

Cyprus' President Tassos Papadopoulos addresses a news conference at the end of a European Union Heads of State and Government summit in Brussels December 14, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Ezequiel ScagnettiReuters - Cypriot police said Tuesday they had discovered the corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos, three months after it was snatched from its grave in a crime that shocked the Mediterranean island.


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Canada drops plans for politically correct anthem (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 13:28
Reuters - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral.
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U.S. blacks, Hispanics losing more sleep over worries (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 13:24
Reuters - Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey released on Monday found.
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Seal meat to be on menu at Canadian Parliament (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 13:24

Canadian Minister of Defence Peter MacKay gives a piece of seal meat to the Chief of Defence Staff General W.J. Natynczyk (L) during a community event in Iqaluit, Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic August 22, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Andy ClarkReuters - Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products.


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Aussie underwear has gone bananas (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Fri, 03/05/2010 - 14:11
Reuters - Australian underwear company AussieBum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of men's underwear made with bananas.
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Hamas bans men from women's hair salons in Gaza (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Fri, 03/05/2010 - 14:06

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh prepares himself inside the plane before landing in Tehran December 7, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Suhaib SalemReuters - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women's hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders.


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Pilot with fake licence arrested at airport (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Thu, 03/04/2010 - 10:53
Reuters - A Swedish pilot with a fake commercial license was arrested in his cockpit at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as he prepared to fly 101 passengers on a Boeing 737 to Turkey, Dutch police said Wednesday.
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London stage fright: rats, mice and fleas: survey (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Thu, 03/04/2010 - 10:52
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 infestations in theatres, according to a new survey by actors' union Equity.
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Chinese youth accused of not being fighting fit (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Thu, 03/04/2010 - 10:52
Reuters - China must urgently address the physical fitness of the nation's youth or run the risk of raising a generation incapable of fighting the Japanese in a future war, the head of the country's top sports university said Thursday.
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Canada may adopt gender-neutral national anthem (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Thu, 03/04/2010 - 10:51

Canadians celebrate by singing the Canadian national anthem at the Eternal Flame in Ottawa, February 28, 2010. REUTERS/Chris RoussakisReuters - "O Canada," the country's national anthem, has included the line, "True patriot love in all thy sons' command," for nearly 100 years.


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Child's play at air traffic tower sparks inquiry (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Wed, 03/03/2010 - 11:56
Reuters - An investigation is underway into why a young child, apparently under an adult's supervision, was allowed to direct air traffic at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday.
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Army nixes raid after Facebook leak? (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Wed, 03/03/2010 - 11:56
Reuters - The Israeli military called off a raid in Palestinian territory after a soldier posted details, including the time and place, on social networking website Facebook, Israel's Army Radio reported Wednesday.
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"Hurt Locker" producers sued days before Oscars (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Odd News - Wed, 03/03/2010 - 11:55
Reuters - A U.S. Army sergeant on Tuesday sued the makers of Oscar-nominated film "The Hurt Locker" five days before the Academy Awards, claiming the central character in the film is based on him.
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