Make toilets cool to fix sanitation woes?
Reuters - Wednesday November 18, 06:49 AM
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization, has a theory about why governments and people are so reluctant to talk about hygiene: it isn't cool.

What's in a name? More than you might think
Reuters - Wednesday November 18, 06:48 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - A London-based translation firm is offering parents-to-be the chance to check the meaning of prospective baby names in other languages to avoid inadvertently causing their offspring future embarrassment.

Make toilets cool to fix sanitation woes, expert says
Reuters - Wednesday November 18, 06:36 AM
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization, has a theory about why governments and people are so reluctant to talk about hygiene: it isn't cool.

Japan's marathon queen Takahashi to run veggie farm
Reuters - Wednesday November 18, 03:43 AM
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's former Olympic marathon gold medallist Naoko Takahashi has decided to become a vegetable farmer.

Japan ask 2010 hosts South Africa to ban vuvuzela
Reuters - Tuesday November 17, 07:56 PM
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's football chief has joined in the chorus of protestors wanting the noisy vuvuzela trumpet to be banned from next year's World Cup in South Africa.

Robber behind "perfect crime" surrenders
Reuters - Tuesday November 17, 09:10 AM
PARIS (Reuters) - The driver of a security van who vanished earlier this month with more than 11 million euros ($16.5 million) in cash has surrendered to police in Monaco, French authorities said on Monday.

Women disappointed by Gaddafi "party"
Reuters - Tuesday November 17, 09:08 AM
ROME (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a U.N. food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported on Monday.

Cannibals nabbed selling corpse to kebab house
Reuters - Tuesday November 17, 09:04 AM
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.

Italian women disappointed by Gaddafi "party"
Reuters - Tuesday November 17, 05:01 AM
ROME (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a U.N. food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported on Monday.

Greek police catch helicopter jail fugitive
Reuters - Monday November 16, 09:45 PM
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police arrested Monday a heavily-armed fugitive, Alket Rijai, who embarrassed authorities by twice escaping from prison in a helicopter.