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Ex-president's body stolen for ransom, Cyprus says (Reuters)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:06:11 GMT

Cyprus' President Tassos Papadopoulos addresses a news conference at the end of a European Union Heads of State and Government summit in Brussels December 14, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Ezequiel ScagnettiReuters - Cyprus said Tuesday ransom was the motive of thieves who stole the body of former President Tassos Papadopoulos, found in a shallow grave Monday three months after it disappeared from its tomb.


Residents flee Angolan village invaded by elephants (Reuters)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:50:11 GMT
Reuters - Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most of its 4,000 residents to flee to neighboring Namibia, a local official said Tuesday.
Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy (Reuters)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:54:27 GMT
Reuters - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds.
Seal meat to be on menu at Canadian Parliament (Reuters)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:24:23 GMT

Canadian Minister of Defence Peter MacKay gives a piece of seal meat to the Chief of Defence Staff General W.J. Natynczyk (L) during a community event in Iqaluit, Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic August 22, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Andy ClarkReuters - Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products.


U.S. blacks, Hispanics losing more sleep over worries (Reuters)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:24:53 GMT
Reuters - Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey released on Monday found.
Canada drops plans for politically correct anthem (Reuters)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:28:13 GMT
Reuters - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral.
Aussie underwear has gone bananas (Reuters)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:11:58 GMT
Reuters - Australian underwear company AussieBum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of men's underwear made with bananas.
Hamas bans men from women's hair salons in Gaza (Reuters)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:06:45 GMT

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh prepares himself inside the plane before landing in Tehran December 7, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Suhaib SalemReuters - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women's hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders.


Pilot with fake licence arrested at airport (Reuters)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:53:13 GMT
Reuters - A Swedish pilot with a fake commercial license was arrested in his cockpit at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as he prepared to fly 101 passengers on a Boeing 737 to Turkey, Dutch police said Wednesday.
London stage fright: rats, mice and fleas: survey (Reuters)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:52:53 GMT
Reuters - Performers in London's West End are having to cope with a different kind of stage fright in the form of mice, rat and flea infestations in theatres, according to a new survey by actors' union Equity.
Chinese youth accused of not being fighting fit (Reuters)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:52:33 GMT

Children exercise during a weight-losing summer camp in Shenyang, Liaoning province, August 3, 2009. REUTERS/Sheng LiReuters - China must urgently address the physical fitness of the nation's youth or run the risk of raising a generation incapable of fighting the Japanese in a future war, the head of the country's top sports university said Thursday.


Canada may adopt gender-neutral national anthem (Reuters)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:51:23 GMT

Canadians celebrate by singing the Canadian national anthem at the Eternal Flame in Ottawa, February 28, 2010. REUTERS/Chris RoussakisReuters - "O Canada," the country's national anthem, has included the line, "True patriot love in all thy sons' command," for nearly 100 years.


Child's play at air traffic tower sparks inquiry (Reuters)
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:56:31 GMT
Reuters - An investigation is underway into why a young child, apparently under an adult's supervision, was allowed to direct air traffic at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday.
Army nixes raid after Facebook leak? (Reuters)
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:56:04 GMT

An Israeli soldier takes position during clashes with Palestinian stone-throwers at Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah October 8, 2009. REUTERS/Fadi ArouriReuters - The Israeli military called off a raid in Palestinian territory after a soldier posted details, including the time and place, on social networking website Facebook, Israel's Army Radio reported Wednesday.


"Hurt Locker" producers sued days before Oscars (Reuters)
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:55:09 GMT

Actor Jeremy Renner is shown in a scene from the film Reuters - A U.S. Army sergeant on Tuesday sued the makers of Oscar-nominated film "The Hurt Locker" five days before the Academy Awards, claiming the central character in the film is based on him.


Marriages last longer than living together? (Reuters)
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:35:02 GMT

Newlyweds kiss after getting married atop the Empire State Building in New York February 14, 2006. REUTERS/Jeff ZelevanskyReuters - U.S. marriages last longer than unions where couples live together outside matrimony, the Centers for Disease Control reported on Tuesday.


Tanks a lot... (Reuters)
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:08:09 GMT
Reuters - About 100 modern Russian tanks have been discovered abandoned on the side of a road in the country's Ural mountains, footage published Saturday by websites showed.
Panda found eating like a pig (Reuters)
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:07:32 GMT
Reuters - Hunger drove a wild panda to break into a Chinese farmer's pig pen and eat their food, which was meat and bone, rather than bamboo.
Baby born in traffic jam as leader drives by (Reuters)
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:00:45 GMT
Reuters - A Pakistani woman gave birth to a baby girl in an auto-rickshaw stuck in a traffic jam when police closed roads to let President Asif Ali Zardari's motorcade drive by.
Man must pay for injury caused in suicide bid (Reuters)
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:25:15 GMT
Reuters - A court ruled that a Russian man must pay more than 100,000 rubles ($3,330) for medical bills and damages to the parents of a girl he hit when he jumped from a window in a suicide attempt.

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 Word of the day 

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 10, 2010 is:

petard • \puh-TAHRD\  • noun
1 : a case containing an explosive to break down a door or gate or breach a wall *2 : a firework that explodes with a loud report

Example sentence:
"The blast occurred on Sunday afternoon in a farmer's house in the Anhui Province, destroying six rooms which stored materials for making petards and firecrackers." (RIA Novosti, January 11, 2010)

Did you know?
Aside from historical references to siege warfare, and occasional contemporary references to fireworks, "petard" is almost always encountered in variations of the phrase "hoist with one's own petard," meaning "victimized or hurt by one's own scheme." The phrase comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "For 'tis the sport to have the enginer / Hoist with his own petar." "Hoist" in this case is the past participle of the verb "hoise," meaning "to lift or raise," and "petar(d)" refers to an explosive device used in siege warfare. Hamlet uses the example of the engineer (the person who sets the explosive device) being blown into the air by his own device as a metaphor for those who schemed against Hamlet being undone by their own schemes. The phrase has endured, even if its literal meaning has largely been forgotten.

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

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