London commuters baffled by sex broadcast
Reuters - Saturday November 7, 06:57 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - London commuters listening out for the latest news about train services got a broadcast with a difference when the noise of a couple apparently having sex was blasted out over a station's loudspeaker system.

Miss England gives up crown over brawl reports
Reuters - Saturday November 7, 05:54 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - Beauty pageant winner Miss England gave up her title on Friday after reports she had been involved in a nightclub brawl with another beauty queen.

Man makes living by selling the shirt on his back
Reuters - Saturday November 7, 04:31 AM
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A T-shirt a day has kept unemployment at bay for an American man who is making about $85,000 a year by selling advertising space on his torso.

Driver suspected in Bank of France van heist
Reuters - Saturday November 7, 04:29 AM
LYON, France (Reuters) - French police are looking for the driver of a security van suspected of driving off with more than 10 million euros ($14.85 million) after the man vanished, apparently after first clearing out his flat.

Malaysia irked by pregnant athlete's pull-out
Reuters - Saturday November 7, 04:15 AM
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A 16-week pregnant athlete faces sanction from Malaysian sports authorities for pulling out of December's Southeast Asian Games, local media reported Friday.

Day of the locusts for German investor critic
Reuters - Saturday November 7, 12:23 AM
BERLIN (Reuters) - Back in 2005, German politician Franz Muentefering likened unscrupulous financial investors to locusts that chewed up firms and moved on.

Who built Berlin Wall? Most Russians don't know
Reuters - Friday November 6, 08:11 AM
MOSCOW (Reuters) - More than half of all Russians do not know who built the Berlin Wall, one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War, an opinion poll showed Thursday.

Health worker fired for hockey flu shots
Reuters - Friday November 6, 06:14 AM
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Senior health officials in the Canadian province of Alberta said on Wednesday they had fired an unidentified worker for giving National Hockey League players preferential access to the H1N1 flu vaccine.

Wife's free handbag a "symbol of derision"
Reuters - Friday November 6, 06:13 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - FIFA vice-president Jack Warner is returning a handbag given to his wife by England's 2018 World Cup bid because he says it has become "a symbol of derision, betrayal and embarrassment."

Giant snake capture was a hoax?
Reuters - Friday November 6, 06:12 AM
MIAMI (Reuters) - A man who caught a 14-foot (4.2-meter) python in a Florida drain pipe was charged with perpetrating a hoax after wildlife officers discovered he owned the snake and put it in the pipe in order to stage the capture.