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  • Football swept up by Japanese tsunami found in Alaska

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A football that bobbed onto the shore of a remote Alaska island is likely the first salvageable debris from last year's Japanese tsunami that could be returned to its owner, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

    April 23, 2012, 2:13 pm

  • Soccer ball swept up by Japanese tsunami found in Alaska

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A soccer ball that bobbed onto the shore of a remote Alaska island is likely the first salvageable debris from last year's Japanese tsunami that could be returned to its owner, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

    April 23, 2012, 1:42 pm

  • $130 million antique-stock claim against Coke fizzles

    WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) - A 1917 stock certificate picked up at an estate sale that the owners had claimed was worth $130 million (80 million pounds) in shares of The Coca-Cola Co may actually be worth a lot less.

    April 21, 2012, 10:56 am

  • UK firm's 1,300 staff accidentally given marching orders

    LONDON (Reuters) - Workers at investment firm Aviva Investors got a shock on Friday when the company accidentally sent an email with leaving instructions intended for one departing employee to the entire worldwide staff of 1,300 people.

    April 21, 2012, 10:07 am

  • Firm's 1,300 staff accidentally given marching orders

    LONDON (Reuters) - Workers at investment firm Aviva Investors got a shock on Friday when the company accidentally sent an email with leaving instructions intended for one departing employee to the entire worldwide staff of 1,300 people.

    April 21, 2012, 10:07 am

  • South Korean bullfighting is for bulls only

    CHEONGDO, South Korea (Reuters) - There is no blood, nor much gore.

    April 20, 2012, 8:08 pm

  • Starbucks to phase out colouring from crushed beetles

    (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp said on its blog on Thursday that it will stop using a natural, government-approved colouring made from crushed beetles in its strawberry flavoring by late June, bowing to pressure from some vegetarian customers.

    April 20, 2012, 12:39 pm

  • Egyptian protesters take long walk to Tahrir

    CAIRO (Reuters) - A group of Egyptians are marching 125 km (77 miles) along a major highway to Cairo to take part in a demonstration in Tahrir Square, stretching the boundaries of the country's flourishing culture of political activism.

    April 20, 2012, 9:13 am

  • China's Ai Weiwei hits Catch 22 in tax lawsuit

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is learning a frustrating lesson about challenging Chinese authorities - he is welcome to sue the government over a festering tax case, but must first produce a company seal confiscated by police that he has no way of recovering.

    April 20, 2012, 9:07 am

  • Man strips at Oregon airport to protest security measures

    PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A 49-year-old Oregon man became so fed up with airport screening that he stripped naked at Portland International Airport security checkpoint, police said.

    April 19, 2012, 7:19 am

  • No monkeying around for Japan man, fastest on four legs

    TOKYO (Reuters) - In the suburbs of Tokyo lives Kenichi Ito, the world's fastest man on four legs.

    April 19, 2012, 12:59 am

  • Four-legged U.S. viewers wag tails for DogTV channel

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two months after its San Diego debut, canine cable channel DogTV is keeping tails wagging at a local animal shelter, is available on the Internet and is headed for national distribution, an executive for the enterprise said on Tuesday.

    April 18, 2012, 5:35 pm

  • No need for kangaroo harvest reports: California governor

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California lawmakers won't be briefed any longer on kangaroo harvests in Australia under a plan to scrap more than 700 reports required by state law that Governor Jerry Brown unveiled on Tuesday.

    April 18, 2012, 9:24 am

  • Player's dad breaks Alabama's championship crystal football

    BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - The championship dream is intact, but the $30,000 crystal football trophy has been shattered at the University of Alabama.

    April 18, 2012, 8:57 am

  • Human-made earthquakes reported in central U.S

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of earthquakes in the central United States rose "spectacularly" near where oil and gas drillers disposed of wastewater underground, a process that may have caused geologic faults to slip, U.S. government geologists report.

    April 18, 2012, 8:50 am

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