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.

Obama in a grass skirt? Hawaii to host APEC 2011
Reuters - Sunday November 15, 08:34 PM
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama invited fellow leaders in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation to a summit in Hawaii in 2011, but may have alarmed them with the dress code.

Mock funeral mourns Venice's shrinking population
Reuters - Sunday November 15, 07:52 AM
VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - A procession of gondolas accompanied a pink coffin along Venice's Grand Canal on Saturday in a mock funeral to protest against the steep decline in the city's population.

French cash stunt scrapped as huge crowd gathers
Reuters - Sunday November 15, 07:45 AM
PARIS (Reuters) - An Internet company that planned to throw envelopes of cash to passers-by from the top of a bus in Paris had to cancel the publicity stunt for security reasons after thousands of people turned up, police said on Saturday.

Cow dung to power more Dutch homes
Reuters - Saturday November 14, 06:33 AM
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A plant that converts cow dung into energy for homes opened in the Netherlands on Friday.

Russia's Putin wins respect at hip-hop party
Reuters - Saturday November 14, 06:32 AM
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rubbed shoulders with rappers and was hailed with "respect" in a television show on Friday that could help boost his flagging ratings.

Putin wins respect at hip-hop party
Reuters - Saturday November 14, 05:49 AM
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rubbed shoulders with rappers and was hailed with "respect" in a television show Friday that could help boost his flagging ratings.

Heavy metal monk retires from the limelight
Reuters - Friday November 13, 11:47 PM
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's "Brother Metal," a 63-year-old monk who became famous for singing in a heavy metal band -- habit and all -- is hanging up his microphone, saying the devil made him too much of a celebrity for his own good.

Facebook provides alibi for robbery suspect
Reuters - Friday November 13, 11:09 AM
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 19-year-old New York man who was arrested for armed robbery has been exonerated thanks to a status update he posted on social networking site Facebook.

Venezuela destroys 30,000 guns
Reuters - Friday November 13, 06:49 AM
CARACAS (Reuters) - Battling with one of the world's highest murder rates, Venezuela on Wednesday crushed more than 30,000 guns seized from the streets during police raids this year.