Alexandria Weird & Offbeat News
Nurses' union: Care does not include sex (Reuters)
- March 11, 2010 at 03:21 PM
- Reuters - A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.
The price you pay for being romantic... (Reuters)
- March 11, 2010 at 03:23 PM
- Reuters - A German woman, fearful that a burglar was trying to break into her second storey apartment, called police after she heard someone climbing up to her balcony shortly after midnight, police said Thursday.
Japan's spouse hunters hone skills at marriage school (Reuters)
- March 11, 2010 at 12:17 PM
- Reuters - In search of Mr. or Mrs. Right, dozens of Japanese are attending a newly launched school in Tokyo that aims to turn them into marriage material.
Old sea dog sets tongues wagging at Crufts (Reuters)
- March 12, 2010 at 08:34 AM
- Reuters - A 16th century dog, the only known female to have served aboard King Henry VIII's ill-fated flagship the Mary Rose, has stolen the show at Britain's Crufts dog show this year.
New Zealander auctions "ghosts" in a bottle (Reuters)
- March 10, 2010 at 01:31 PM
- 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.
Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying (Reuters)
- March 10, 2010 at 01:32 PM
- Reuters - 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.
"Dead" baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zoo (Reuters)
- March 10, 2010 at 01:34 PM
- Reuters - 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.
Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU (Reuters)
- March 10, 2010 at 01:46 PM
- Reuters - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.
Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse (Reuters)
- March 10, 2010 at 08:09 AM
- Reuters - 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.
Residents flee Angolan village invaded by elephants (Reuters)
- March 9, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- 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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