Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/583 odd Oddly Enough - Reuters en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:31:44 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/583 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/od_nm/us_missengland nm/20091106/us_missengland Reuters odd Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:29:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/od_nm/us_missengland"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091106/i/r783291815.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=GUa98DOa0c805uOX.Wro7g--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Rachel Christie after being crowned Miss England in London, July 20, 2009. REUTERS/Miss England/Handout" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/od_nm/us_missengland"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091106/i/r783291815.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=GUa98DOa0c805uOX.Wro7g--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Rachel Christie after being crowned Miss England in London, July 20, 2009. REUTERS/Miss England/Handout" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/od_nm/us_france_robbery nm/20091106/us_france_robbery Reuters odd Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:29:53 GMT 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/od_nm/us_rental nm/20091106/us_rental Reuters health Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:31:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/od_nm/us_rental"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091106/i/r2041420812.jpg?x=118&y=130&q=85&sig=0o0nWTjACD27AhI6vvPy5Q--" align="left" height="130" width="118" alt="Jason Sadler, 26, who founded www.iwearyourshirt.com, is seen in this undated handout photo. REUTERS/iwearyourshirt.com/Handout" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/od_nm/us_rental"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091106/i/r2041420812.jpg?x=118&y=130&q=85&sig=0o0nWTjACD27AhI6vvPy5Q--" align="left" height="130" width="118" alt="photo" title="Jason Sadler, 26, who founded www.iwearyourshirt.com, is seen in this undated handout photo. REUTERS/iwearyourshirt.com/Handout" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091105/od_nm/us_python_odd nm/20091105/us_python_odd Reuters odd Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:12:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091105/od_nm/us_python_odd"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091105/i/r3539362090.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=oydbC6m.7e9Bkzft0M76vg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A Burmese pythons is seen shortly before capture by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in an undated image. REUTERS/FWC/Handout" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091105/od_nm/us_python_odd"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091105/i/r3539362090.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=oydbC6m.7e9Bkzft0M76vg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Burmese pythons is seen shortly before capture by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in an undated image. REUTERS/FWC/Handout" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091105/od_nm/us_flu_canada_calgaryflames nm/20091105/us_flu_canada_calgaryflames Reuters odd Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:14:30 GMT 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091105/od_nm/us_england_bag nm/20091105/us_england_bag Reuters odd Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:13:56 GMT 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." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091104/od_nm/us_britain_urinate nm/20091104/us_britain_urinate Reuters odd Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:59:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091104/od_nm/us_britain_urinate"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091104/i/r2509301000.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=YkvXLv0OHJSi5ClkKnVYHg--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="A service-goer holds a red poppy wreath decorated with white poppies of peace during a service in central London, November 11, 2006. REUTERS/Toby Melville" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A university student who was photographed urinating over a war memorial was warned on Wednesday that he could be jailed for the "disgusting act."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091104/od_nm/us_britain_urinate"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091104/i/r2509301000.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=YkvXLv0OHJSi5ClkKnVYHg--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="photo" title="A service-goer holds a red poppy wreath decorated with white poppies of peace during a service in central London, November 11, 2006. REUTERS/Toby Melville" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091104/od_nm/us_telecoms_marriage nm/20091104/us_telecoms_marriage Reuters odd Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:56:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091104/od_nm/us_telecoms_marriage"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091104/i/r1443712691.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=BVuqof3mU_dCPh1DR6a5tQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="A Somali resident purchases a cell-phone handset at a shopping centre in Mogadishu, November 4, 2009. Somalia's mobile phone business is booming despite the almost daily artillery fire that flies over expensive satellite dishes and the violence that has brought misery to the population of the Horn of Africa nation. REUTERS/Feisal Omar" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Somali courtship was different in Hassan Aden's day. When he was a teenager, you gave the girl's parents 11 camels and an AK-47 assault rifle as bride price and then waited respectfully.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091104/od_nm/us_telecoms_marriage"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091104/i/r1443712691.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=BVuqof3mU_dCPh1DR6a5tQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Somali resident purchases a cell-phone handset at a shopping centre in Mogadishu, November 4, 2009. Somalia's mobile phone business is booming despite the almost daily artillery fire that flies over expensive satellite dishes and the violence that has brought misery to the population of the Horn of Africa nation. REUTERS/Feisal Omar" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091103/od_nm/us_telecoms_ringtones nm/20091103/us_telecoms_ringtones Reuters odd Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:02:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091103/od_nm/us_telecoms_ringtones"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091103/i/r2134909780.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=VMJ2ncCG0i0Gj7CsSvcvZg--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Members of the hardline Al Shabaab Islamist rebel group sit on a pick-up during a demonstration in Mogadishu, October 30, 2009. REUTERS/Omar Faruk" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Sacdiyo Sheeq used to love listening to Bollywood movie songs on her mobile telephone.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091103/od_nm/us_telecoms_ringtones"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091103/i/r2134909780.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=VMJ2ncCG0i0Gj7CsSvcvZg--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="Members of the hardline Al Shabaab Islamist rebel group sit on a pick-up during a demonstration in Mogadishu, October 30, 2009. REUTERS/Omar Faruk" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091104/od_nm/us_festival nm/20091104/us_festival Reuters odd Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:42:08 GMT Reuters - Despite a drinking ban mayhem erupted at a traditional Mayan horse race on Sunday with riders falling off their horses and drunken spectators stumbling through the mountain village. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091103/od_nm/us_flying nm/20091103/us_flying Reuters health Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:00:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091103/od_nm/us_flying"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091103/i/r1148447807.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=Yb5ofet1ocYTDu5Q8ZdhXQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="A man tries out the new iPhone 3GS on the first day it is being sold in Spain at the company's store in downtown Madrid June 19, 2009. REUTERS/Susana Vera" border="0" /></a>Reuters - People scared of flying can now press a button on their iPhone to help them deal with their panic.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091103/od_nm/us_flying"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091103/i/r1148447807.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=Yb5ofet1ocYTDu5Q8ZdhXQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man tries out the new iPhone 3GS on the first day it is being sold in Spain at the company's store in downtown Madrid June 19, 2009. REUTERS/Susana Vera" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/od_nm/us_monroe nm/20091102/us_monroe Reuters odd Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:34:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/od_nm/us_monroe"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091102/i/r1507371393.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=QNNeRDdEloaVjdIDqC0wFQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="The crypt of Marilyn Monroe is pictured at the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery in Westwood, California August 17, 2009. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A second attempt to sell a crypt on top of Marilyn Monroe's final resting place has failed, with not a single bid received for the burial spot in a celebrity-filled Los Angeles cemetery.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/od_nm/us_monroe"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091102/i/r1507371393.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=QNNeRDdEloaVjdIDqC0wFQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="The crypt of Marilyn Monroe is pictured at the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery in Westwood, California August 17, 2009. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/od_nm/us_beefeaters nm/20091102/us_beefeaters Reuters odd Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:33:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/od_nm/us_beefeaters"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091103/i/r3531283908.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=PTK9qodKvLJ.nxxjSdp7iw--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="Yeoman Warder Moira Cameron, the first female Beefeater starts work at the Tower of London September 3, 2007. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Two guardians of Britain's historic Tower of London have been suspended after a female colleague, the first woman warden in their 524-year history, accused them of harassment.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/od_nm/us_beefeaters"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091103/i/r3531283908.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=PTK9qodKvLJ.nxxjSdp7iw--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="photo" title="Yeoman Warder Moira Cameron, the first female Beefeater starts work at the Tower of London September 3, 2007. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/od_nm/us_hotel nm/20091102/us_hotel Reuters odd Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:32:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/od_nm/us_hotel"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091102/i/r97302656.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=amFi1cIWEyQCYCl7H3PpjQ--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="An artists rendering of a shuttle docking with the Galactic Suite hotel is seen in an undated publicity photo. REUTERS/Galactic Suite/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and time frame for the multi-billion dollar project.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/od_nm/us_hotel"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091102/i/r97302656.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=amFi1cIWEyQCYCl7H3PpjQ--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="photo" title="An artists rendering of a shuttle docking with the Galactic Suite hotel is seen in an undated publicity photo. REUTERS/Galactic Suite/Handout" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/od_nm/us_taiwan_doghotel nm/20091102/us_taiwan_doghotel Reuters odd Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:32:19 GMT Reuters - Taipei's dogs are living it up at hotels, complete with VIP suites and pools, that aim to ease the problem of strays that has plagued the city for decades. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091029/od_nm/us_crime_roulette_odd nm/20091029/us_crime_roulette_odd Reuters odd Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:15:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091029/od_nm/us_crime_roulette_odd"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091030/i/r2157457752.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=qW9xxJUKTOyrvk.jeghVHw--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="A traffic jam at a north Hollywood intersection in a file photo. REUTERS/Gene Blevins" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Bulgarian prosecutors are investigating a new gambling game in which drivers defy death by speeding through red lights for bets of up to 5,000 euros ($7,400), the chief prosecutor's office said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091029/od_nm/us_crime_roulette_odd"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091030/i/r2157457752.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=qW9xxJUKTOyrvk.jeghVHw--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="A traffic jam at a north Hollywood intersection in a file photo. REUTERS/Gene Blevins" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091029/od_nm/us_recession_divorces_odd nm/20091029/us_recession_divorces_odd Reuters odd Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:16:33 GMT Reuters - Financial woes often drive couples apart but the current recession seems to be having the opposite effect, with less couples able to afford the cost of a divorce. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091029/od_nm/us_poland_toilets_odd nm/20091029/us_poland_toilets_odd Reuters odd Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:17:24 GMT Reuters - Patrols of two, wearing white overalls, are boldly entering toilets across Poland to check whether the country is loo-ready for the 2012 EURO soccer championships. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091029/od_nm/us_genes_driving_odd nm/20091029/us_genes_driving_odd Reuters health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:18:17 GMT Reuters - No need to curse that bad driver weaving in and out of the lane in front of you -- he cannot help it, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091028/od_nm/us_coffee nm/20091028/us_coffee Reuters odd Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:26:33 GMT Reuters - Coffee drinkers at a popular Israeli chain can have their fortunes told for free if they buy a cup of the brew that leaves grounds at the bottom.