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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/856 odd Oddly Enough - Reuters UK en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:04 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/856 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_eu_president_poetry nm/20091120/oukoe_uk_eu_president_poetry Reuters odd Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:45:42 GMT 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_crocodiles nm/20091119/oukoe_uk_crocodiles Reuters odd Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:52:18 GMT 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_galileo_find nm/20091120/oukoe_uk_italy_galileo_find Reuters odd Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:24:59 GMT 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_usa_laundry nm/20091118/oukoe_uk_usa_laundry Reuters odd Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:05:20 GMT 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091117/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_babynames nm/20091117/oukoe_uk_babynames Reuters odd Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:29:14 GMT 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091117/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_soccer_japan_trumpet nm/20091117/oukoe_uk_soccer_japan_trumpet Reuters odd Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:57:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091117/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_soccer_japan_trumpet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091117/capt.d031667568d34b00b12e51d98d2bc9af.south_africa_soccer_japan_vuvuzelas_th101.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=q1U9a7I47xL6QQuiMfqwpg--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="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)" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091117/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_soccer_japan_trumpet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091117/capt.d031667568d34b00b12e51d98d2bc9af.south_africa_soccer_japan_vuvuzelas_th101.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=q1U9a7I47xL6QQuiMfqwpg--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="photo" title="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)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091116/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_gaddafi_women nm/20091116/oukoe_uk_italy_gaddafi_women Reuters odd Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:03:23 GMT 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091117/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_athletics_japan_takahashi nm/20091117/oukoe_uk_athletics_japan_takahashi Reuters odd Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:44:57 GMT Reuters - Japan's former Olympic marathon gold medallist Naoko Takahashi has decided to become a vegetable farmer. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091114/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_france_stunt nm/20091114/oukoe_uk_france_stunt Reuters odd Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:14:13 GMT Reuters - A French Internet company that planned to throw envelopes of cash to passers-by from a bus stop had to cancel the publicity stunt for security reasons after thousands of people turned up, police said on Saturday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091113/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_dutch_cows nm/20091113/oukoe_uk_dutch_cows Reuters odd Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:35:26 GMT Reuters - A plant that converts cow dung into energy for homes opened in the Netherlands on Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091113/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_monk nm/20091113/oukoe_uk_italy_monk Reuters odd Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:50:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091113/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_monk"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091113/i/r1944051177.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=oTi0g9QzEaHzB6Hf9zX4_w--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Friar Cesare Bonizzi (R), also known as Fratello Metallo (Metal Friar), sings with his group during a rehearsal session in downtown Milan in a July 10, 2008 file photo. 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 had made him too much of a celebrity for his own good. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo/Files (ITALY RELIGION ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY)" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091113/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_monk"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091113/i/r1944051177.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=oTi0g9QzEaHzB6Hf9zX4_w--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="Friar Cesare Bonizzi (R), also known as Fratello Metallo (Metal Friar), sings with his group during a rehearsal session in downtown Milan in a July 10, 2008 file photo. 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 had made him too much of a celebrity for his own good. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo/Files (ITALY RELIGION ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091112/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_facebook_alibi nm/20091112/oukoe_uk_facebook_alibi Reuters odd Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:10:43 GMT 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091111/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_soccer_japan_kawasaki nm/20091111/oukoe_uk_soccer_japan_kawasaki Reuters odd Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:07:22 GMT Reuters - Kawasaki Frontale have been told to keep the $5.5 million (3.3 million pounds) prize money the Japanese club offered to return after its players were given a public dressing down for unsporting behaviour following their J-League Cup final defeat. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091111/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_singapore_pandas nm/20091111/oukoe_uk_singapore_pandas Reuters odd Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:04:04 GMT Reuters - China will give Singapore two giant pandas to mark 20 years of friendly ties between the two countries, Chinese President Hu Jintao said Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091110/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_russia_kalashnikov nm/20091110/oukoe_uk_russia_kalashnikov Reuters odd Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:02:06 GMT Reuters - The designer of the Kalashnikov, sometimes called the world's most lethal weapon, was named a "Hero of Russia" Tuesday by President Dmitry Medvedev who lauded him for creating "the brand every Russian is proud of." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091110/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_india_turtle nm/20091110/oukoe_uk_india_turtle Reuters odd Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:53:52 GMT Reuters - Hundreds of poor Hindu villagers in eastern India have refused to hand over a rare turtle to authorities, saying it is an incarnation of God, officials said on Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091109/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_mugshot nm/20091109/oukoe_uk_britain_mugshot Reuters odd Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:48:15 GMT Reuters - A man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local paper because he disliked the mugshot they had printed of him as part of a public appeal to track him down. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091109/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_energy_biomethane nm/20091109/oukoe_uk_britain_energy_biomethane Reuters odd Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:56:12 GMT Reuters - East Midlands Airport will try to run a bus with a fuel produced from decomposing organic waste, the fuel producer Gasrec said on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_missengland nm/20091106/oukoe_uk_britain_missengland Reuters odd Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:38:42 GMT 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenoughuk/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_athletics_malaysia nm/20091106/oukoe_uk_athletics_malaysia Reuters odd Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:17:12 GMT 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.