- New royal wedding one-stop shop app launches Reuters - Mon, 21 Mar, 2011 1:02 PM EDT
LONDON (Reuters) - Those who want to keep up with the latest news about next month's royal wedding, polish up their palace protocol or pass on marriage advice to the royal couple can now buy a "one-stop wedding shop" iPad application.
- Putin frolics with snow leopard Reuters - Mon, 21 Mar, 2011 1:01 PM EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin frolicked with the real-life mascot of the 2014 Winter Olympics over the weekend, an endangered snow leopard that had been injured in the valleys of central Siberia.
- Tarmac roads are 'cool' in rural Zanzibar AFP News - Mon, 21 Mar, 2011 12:15 PM EDT
The village folk of Tanzania's idyllic Zanzibar archipelago have hit the road; sleeping on tarmac at night to cool off from the chocking tropical heat in their poorly ventilated houses.
- US university president, citing safety issues, ends December tradition: a naked student run The Canadian Press - Fri, 18 Mar, 2011 11:46 AM EDT
MEDFORD, Mass. - The president of Tufts University in Massachusetts has put an end to the student tradition of running around nude to mark the end of the fall semester.
- Kazakh motorists draw official ire for declaring their love of sex on their license plates The Canadian Press - Fri, 18 Mar, 2011 11:15 AM EDT
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - Traffic police in a southern Kazakhstan city have complained of a rising tide of motorists replacing their license plates with signs reading "I Love Sex."
- American dad denies playing ninja, says he was 'jogging' when son, 4, was left alone The Canadian Press - Thu, 17 Mar, 2011 10:03 AM EDT
SCOTTDALE, Pa. - A man denies he was outside running around pretending to be a ninja, but acknowledges he did leave his 4-year-old son home alone sleeping while he went jogging earlier this month.
- Clinic capitalizes on basketball tourney: Get a vasectomy, let TV be salve for your wounds The Canadian Press - Thu, 17 Mar, 2011 9:29 AM EDT
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa - A clinic's ad campaign hits below the belt by urging sport fans to indulge in some alternative March madness: Have a vasectomy on Thursday or Friday then spend the weekend recovering while watching NCAA tournament basketball.
- City warns Toledo, Ohio, councilman to stop tapping government-owned maple tree for syrup The Canadian Press - Thu, 17 Mar, 2011 9:23 AM EDT
TOLEDO, Ohio - An Ohio city councilman who prides himself on being a back-to-the-land type has a sticky problem.
- Police in Ohio say alleged bank robber is captured trying to get away on city bus The Canadian Press - Wed, 16 Mar, 2011 12:31 PM EDT
DAYTON, Ohio - Police in Ohio say a man robbed a bank and then tried to flee on board a public bus, where officers eventually caught up with him.
- US university president, citing safety issues, ends December tradition: a naked student run The Canadian Press - Tue, 15 Mar, 2011 5:39 PM EDT
MEDFORD, Mass. - The president of Tufts University in Massachusetts has put an end to the student tradition of running around nude to mark the end of the fall semester.
- Despite winning online poll, Indiana city opts not to name building after ex-mayor Harry Baals The Canadian Press - Mon, 14 Mar, 2011 10:05 PM EDT
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - A new government building may officially be called Citizens Square, but to some not-so-square citizens it will always be the Harry Baals Government Center.
- Woman reports to US court date with a tiny 7-week-old marmoset tucked in her bra The Canadian Press - Fri, 11 Mar, 2011 2:09 PM EST
AMHERST, Va. - A woman turned a few heads when she walked into a rural Virginia courthouse with a tiny monkey clad in a pink-and-white dress tucked in her bra.
- Letter postmarked from Alabama city in 1944 finally headed for soldier's sister, now 90 The Canadian Press - Fri, 11 Mar, 2011 11:12 AM EST
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A World War II-era letter mailed to a soldier's sister at a Red Cross hospital is finally headed for its intended recipient.
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