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Sparkling reindeer-dung jewelry sells at Ill. zoo

AP - 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Sparkly reindeer-dung necklaces are going on sale at an Illinois zoo that hopes to attract the same holiday shoppers who swept up its dung Christmas ornaments last year.

  • A forensic scientist displays human bones found in the jungle of Huanuco in this undated picture provided by the police. Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang suspected of killing dozens of people and selling their fat to buyers to be used for making cosmetics. Four Peruvians were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, murder and trafficking in human fat. REUTERS/Handout
    Gang accused of killing to sell human fat Reuters - Fri Nov 20, 11:03 AM ET

    LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.

  • Cartons of contraband cigarettes are put on display at the Finance Ministry in Paris on September 4, 2008. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
    Diplomats arrested for cigarette smuggling Reuters - Fri Nov 20, 11:04 AM ET

    STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish police have arrested two North Korean diplomats on suspicion of smuggling 230,000 cigarettes into the Nordic country, the Swedish Customs Office said Friday.

  • New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles Reuters - Thu Nov 19, 4:21 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world

  • Then President-elect Senator Barack Obama is pictured live on a giant screen as he addresses supporters at his election night rally in Chicago November 4, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Reed
    U.S. election, iPhone among decade's top 10 Internet moments Reuters - Thu Nov 19, 4:20 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards.

  • Lost man drives nine hours to get newspaper Reuters - Wed Nov 18, 12:56 PM ET

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - An elderly man who went out to fetch a morning newspaper ended up driving nearly 400 miles after getting lost and taking a wrong turn onto a major Australian highway, police said on Wednesday. The man, 81-year-old Eric Steward, eventually stopped and asked for directions after driving for nine hours, from the New South Wales country town of Yass to Geelong in the southern Victoria state.

  • Astronaut Randy Bresnik talks about his first spacewalk and the birth of his daughter while in orbit aboard the International Space Station in this handout image from NASA TV Space Shuttle Atlantis November 22, 2009. REUTERS/NASA TV/Handout
    Houston, we have a baby Reuters - Mon Nov 23, 1:10 AM ET

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik awoke early on Sunday to a much-anticipated call that his new daughter had been born.

  • New EU president wins fans in Japan -- as a poet Reuters - Fri Nov 20, 10:45 AM ET

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union's new president, may not be very well known around the world but he's already winning fans in Japan -- as a poet rather than a politician.

  • Me-OW! Cat survives Illinois outage-causing run-in AP - Mon Nov 23, 8:38 PM ET

    CARROLLTON, Ill. - A cat went from meow to ow when officials say it accidentally made contact with a substation's fuse, causing an outage to about 1,500 homes and businesses in southwestern Illinois. The feline apparently survived the encounter early Monday in the Greene County city of Carrollton.

  • Italy collector finds Galileo's lost tooth, fingers Reuters - Fri Nov 20, 12:24 PM ET

    ROME (Reuters) - An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum announced on Friday.

  • New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles Reuters - Thu Nov 19, 10:52 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world divided up among a half-dozen species of unusual and perhaps intelligent crocodiles, researchers reported on Thursday.

  • U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry Reuters - Wed Nov 18, 8:05 AM ET

    PERKASIE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop.

  • Court drops case in nude photo shoot at NYC museum AP - Mon Nov 23, 8:22 PM ET

    NEW YORK - Nude, yes. Lewd, no.

  • What's in an unusual name? More than you might think Reuters - Tue Nov 17, 2:29 PM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes might have thought twice about naming their daughter Suri if they'd known that it means "pickpocket" in Japanese, "turned sour" in French, and "horse mackerels" in Italian.

  • French police handout of a recent photograph of Tony Musulin. A suspected bank robber may not be most girls' idea of Mr Right, but women are proposing marriage to a jailed French van driver accused of stealing million of euros, his lawyer said Monday.(AFP/Police/HO)
    Marriage proposals for French bank heist hero: lawyer AFP - Mon Nov 23, 7:09 PM ET

    LYON, France (AFP) - A suspected bank robber may not be most girls' idea of Mr Right, but women are proposing marriage to a jailed French van driver accused of stealing million of euros, his lawyer said Monday.

  • Ga. high court rules mower isn't a motor vehicle AP - Mon Nov 23, 3:53 PM ET

    ATLANTA - A riding lawn mower may have four wheels, a powerful engine and can cost as much as a used car. If it's stolen, however, the Georgia Supreme Court concluded Monday that it's not a motor vehicle.

  • FILE - In this Thursday, June 25, 2009 file photo, supporters of the South African soccer team blow 'vuvuzelas' (Zulu for stadium trumpet) before their Confederations Cup semifinal soccer match against Brazil at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Sankei Sports newspaper is reporting that the head of Japan's football association says he will ask FIFA to ban vuvuzela trumpets at the World Cup next year. Japan Football Association President Motoaki Inukai said he had already asked officials in South Africa to stop the use of the instruments, and would ask FIFA to do so as well, according the Sankei. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
    Japan ask 2010 hosts South Africa to ban vuvuzela Reuters - Tue Nov 17, 1:57 AM ET

    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.

  • Italian women disappointed by Gaddafi "party" Reuters - Mon Nov 16, 11:03 AM ET

    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.

  • Judge blocks law allowing guns in bars Reuters - Mon Nov 23, 2:00 PM ET

    NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A judge on Friday blocked a Tennessee law that allowed people to bring handguns into restaurants and bars.

  • Charge nurse Kevin McKenna is given a swine flu vaccination at the University College London Hospital as the mass immunisation programme begins, in October 2009. Health authorities said Friday they are investigating what could be the world's first cases of person-to-person transmission of a strain of drug-resistant swine flu.(AFP/Pool/File/Lewis Whyld)
    Christmas kissing: On the cheek to avoid swine flu AP - Mon Nov 23, 7:50 AM ET

    LONDON - Britain's authority on etiquette says it's more hygienic to exchange kisses on the cheek than to shake hands — so the swine flu pandemic should not make people afraid of kissing under the mistletoe this holiday season.

  • Japan's marathon queen Takahashi to run veggie farm Reuters - Tue Nov 17, 9:44 AM ET

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's former Olympic marathon gold medallist Naoko Takahashi has decided to become a vegetable farmer.

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  • Gang accused of killing to sell human fat Reuters - Fri Nov 20, 11:03 AM ET

    LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.

  • Lost man drives nine hours to get newspaper Reuters - Wed Nov 18, 12:56 PM ET

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - An elderly man who went out to fetch a morning newspaper ended up driving nearly 400 miles after getting lost and taking a wrong turn onto a major Australian highway, police said on Wednesday. The man, 81-year-old Eric Steward, eventually stopped and asked for directions after driving for nine hours, from the New South Wales country town of Yass to Geelong in the southern Victoria state.

  • A detail of British artist John Collier's 1883 painting of Charles Darwin is displayed as part of an exhibition in Darwin's former home, Down House, in Kent, southern England February 12, 2009. REUTERS/Tal Cohen
    Darwin book worth up to $100,000 found on shelf Reuters - Mon Nov 23, 1:59 PM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - A first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," which had been kept in a toilet bookcase for years, will go on sale this week and is expected to fetch 40-60,000 pounds ($66-100,000).