Reuters News - Oddly Enough
Reuters.com is your source for breaking news, business, financial and investing news, including personal finance and stocks. Reuters is the leading global provider of news, financial information and technology solutions to the world's media, financial institutions, businesses and individuals.
Updated: 17 hours 53 min ago
Obese have right to two airline seats
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.
Categories: Reuters
Chile probes Pinochet "disappeared" back from dead
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - His name is on a monument to victims of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, his family buried his mistakenly identified remains -- now a Chilean court is probing how German Cofre has come back from the dead.
Categories: Reuters
Speeding drivers face ban for two offenses
LONDON (Reuters) - Drivers caught going more than 20 mph over the speed limit could lose their license after just two offenses under government proposals published Thursday.
Categories: Reuters
3,300 prisoners to be freed early
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria plans to free thousands of minor offenders in an attempt to relieve its overcrowded jails and ease the work of the legal system, the government said Thursday.
Categories: Reuters
Search widened for cardboard box fugitive
BERLIN (Reuters) - German police searching nationwide for a convicted drug dealer who escaped from jail by hiding in a cardboard box to be taken away for recycling plan to issue an international arrest warrant for him.
Categories: Reuters
Manual issued to stop forced marriages
PARIS (Reuters) - The Paris City Hall launched a manual on forced marriages on Wednesday to help officials spot and prevent cases of young women being coerced into matrimony.
Categories: Reuters
Lawmaker apologizes for blocking Wikipedia
BERLIN (Reuters) - A member of parliament who got a court order blocking online encyclopedia Wikipedia in Germany for two days because of entries linking him to communist-era security police apologized on Tuesday for overreacting.
Categories: Reuters
Search widened for cardboard box fugitive
BERLIN (Reuters) - German police searching nationwide for a convicted drug dealer who escaped from jail by hiding in a cardboard box to be taken away for recycling plan to issue an international arrest warrant for him.
Categories: Reuters
Farmer avoids jail in fake tiger photo trial
BEIJING (Reuters) - A farmer in northern China found guilty of doctoring photos of an endangered tiger after collecting a cash reward from wildlife authorities, has been handed a lighter sentence on appeal, local media said on Tuesday.
Categories: Reuters
Farmer avoids jail in fake tiger photo trial
BEIJING (Reuters) - A farmer in northern China found guilty of doctoring photos of an endangered tiger after collecting a cash reward from wildlife authorities, has been handed a lighter sentence on appeal, local media said on Tuesday.
Categories: Reuters
Top anti-drink cop caught drunk driving
TOKYO (Reuters) - A senior Tokyo police official tasked with keeping the city's roads clear of drunk drivers has been arrested for driving under the influence, police said on Tuesday.
Categories: Reuters
Parliament picks bomb hoaxer as speaker
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania's newly elected parliament has chosen as its new speaker a popular television talent show host once convicted of placing a prank call about a bomb in a hotel.
Categories: Reuters
Climber plumps for portable toilets for Everest
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A young Nepali climber is seeking to popularize a toilet fashioned from a plastic bucket with a lid to promote eco-friendly climbing on Mount Everest.
Categories: Reuters
Couple pays $200 for "special" samosas
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A Dutch couple on a visit to the eastern Indian state of Bihar paid 10,000 rupees ($204) for four samosas, a spicy deep-fried snack that usually doesn't cost more than a few rupees, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Categories: Reuters
Pudgiest pets compete in slimming contest
LONDON (Reuters) - Eight of Britain's fattest pets are to embark on a 100-day diet and fitness regime in a bid to crowned this year's pet fit club champion.
Categories: Reuters
Couple pays $200 for "special" samosas
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A Dutch couple on a visit to the eastern Indian state of Bihar paid 10,000 rupees ($204) for four samosas, a spicy deep-fried snack that usually doesn't cost more than a few rupees, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Categories: Reuters
Pudgiest pets compete in slimming contest
LONDON (Reuters) - Eight of Britain's fattest pets are to embark on a 100-day diet and fitness regime in a bid to crowned this year's pet fit club champion.
Categories: Reuters
Climber plumps for portable toilets for Everest
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A young Nepali climber is seeking to popularize a toilet fashioned from a plastic bucket with a lid to promote eco-friendly climbing on Mount Everest.
Categories: Reuters
Ancient Greeks pre-empted Dead Parrot sketch
Categories: Reuters
Boy makes rare recovery from rabies
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A 15-year-old boy in Brazil recovered from a normally deadly rabies infection, becoming one of a handful of survivors of the virus worldwide and the first in the country, the health ministry said on Friday.
Categories: Reuters
Syndicate