Royal foiled as Casey toils
Reuters - Sunday July 20, 07:59 AM
SOUTHPORT (Reuters) - Britain's Paul Casey recruited royalty to help find a lost ball during Saturday's wind-affected British Open third round ... to no avail.

Loud music makes customers drink faster
Reuters - Saturday July 19, 12:27 PM
LONDON (Reuters) - Customers of bars that play loud music drink more quickly and in fewer gulps, French researchers said on Friday.

Voters weigh renaming sewage plant after Bush
Reuters - Saturday July 19, 12:26 PM
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco voters, never thrilled with George W. Bush, may give the U.S. president a parting shot in November by naming a sewage plant after him.

Loud music makes customers drink more
Reuters - Saturday July 19, 09:04 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - Customers of bars that play loud music drink more quickly and in fewer gulps, French researchers said on Friday.

Yusuf Islam wins damages for "veiled women" slur
Reuters - Saturday July 19, 06:16 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - British folk singer Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, accepted libel damages and an apology on Friday from a news agency that reported he had refused to talk to women at an awards ceremony who were not wearing a veil.

Works by pop art masters taken from Swedish museum
Reuters - Saturday July 19, 05:19 AM
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Thieves broke into a museum near Stockholm overnight and stole five works by American pop artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, the manager said on Friday.

Kids give pope Mickey Mouse cap but he prefers white
Reuters - Saturday July 19, 02:44 AM
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, who generally wears a white skull cap known as a "zuchetto," was given a Mickey Mouse cap with ears Friday.

With this fake wife, I divorce thee
Reuters - Saturday July 19, 02:43 AM
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - An Indian man who took an impersonator to court to get a divorce faces legal action after his real wife found out, lawyers said Friday.

Sex, blood and baby names: U.S. mad for free gas
Reuters - Saturday July 19, 02:41 AM
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some U.S. motorists sick of getting clobbered at the pump seem willing to do just about anything for free fuel, from giving up the right to name their children to stealing from day-care centers to donating blood.

Last tsar leads Stalin in poll on greatest Russian
Reuters - Saturday July 19, 02:17 AM
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ninety years after Bolshevik revolutionaries shot dead the last tsar, Russians are fighting over who to lionise.