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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

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11/13/2012
Reuters Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the politics in between
Tower of London intruder walks off with keys
LONDON (Reuters) - British police are investigating how an intruder breached the walls of the Tower of London and stole a set of keys from the tourist attraction and home of the crown jewels.
Arizona woman runs down husband with car for not voting: police
PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husband with the family car in suburban Phoenix on Saturday because he failed to vote in the election, police said on Monday.
Uganda says wants to pass anti-gay law as "Christmas gift"
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's parliamentary speaker said she wanted to pass as a "Christmas gift" for Ugandans an anti-gay law, which rights groups have criticized for its draconian penalties against homosexuals.
NZ man planning manure protest told to stay away from Prince Charles
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand court ordered an anti-monarchist on Tuesday to stay away from Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla after he was charged with planning to throw horse manure at the visiting royal couple.
"Shopping list" thieves steal $2 million South African art
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Three men posing as an art teacher and two students stole paintings worth about $2 million by some of South Africa's most celebrated artists off the walls of the Pretoria Art Museum in a brazen day-time robbery.
Gay anti-mafia politician breaks mold in Sicily
ROME (Reuters) - Openly gay, devoutly Catholic, left-wing and an enemy of the mafia, Rosario Crocetta broke the mould when he was elected governor of deeply conservative Sicily last month.
Pedometers play up every step you take
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pedometers have ticked off many miles since Leonardo da Vinci sketched his version, essentially a pendulum for walkers, in the 15th century.
Denver mailman mistakes corpse for Halloween decoration
DENVER (Reuters) - The United States Postal Service acknowledged on Friday that one of its mail carriers did not report a corpse at a Denver home because he mistook the body for a Halloween display.
California teen steps into rattlesnake nest, survives
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A teenage California girl searching for a cell phone signal to call her mother in a rural area outside San Diego inadvertently stepped into a nest of rattlesnakes and was bitten six times, but survived.
Charles Darwin gets 4,000 write-in votes in Georgia
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia congressman who attacked the theory of evolution found himself with an unlikely opponent in Tuesday's U.S. election, when 4,000 voters in one county cast write-in ballots for the 19th century father of evolution, British naturalist Charles Darwin.
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