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08/7/2012
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
Getting "randy" on the trampoline
LONDON (Reuters) - If you've overheard the trampolinists at the London Games talking about a randy, rudolph and a barani you might be forgiven for wondering who is this amorous, red-nosed reindeer hungry for a spicy Indian meal?
Call me Brawny: Iran defends tankers alias game
LONDON (Reuters) - New names for Iran's oil tankers are part of its national tanker company NITC's defense against tighter United States sanctions which target it, the company says.
Kangaroo condoms get a hop on London organizers
LONDON (Reuters) - London Olympic organizers are investigating how a bucket of Australian-tagged condoms found its way into the athletes' village without official consent.
Weightlifting: Briton oversleeps, still has dream debut
LONDON (Reuters) - After years of meticulous preparation, tailoring every aspect of your life to focus on one day of competition, imagine waking up on the morning of your Olympic debut to find you'd slept through your alarm clock.
Australian finance minister's economic hero? Springsteen, not Keynes
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Anyone looking for early signs of distress in an economy should forget John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman and listen instead to Bruce Springsteen.
Ancient dopers got their kicks from raw testicles
LONDON (Reuters) - Forget anabolic steroids in easy-to-swallow tablets, or EPO in clean syringes. Ancient Olympic dopers got their pre-Games hormone boost from chewing on raw animal testicles.
Berlin museum dung heaps are reminder of Nazi past
BERLIN (Reuters) - Visitors to Berlin's main modern art museum this summer should take care not to step on piles of horse manure, placed as a reminder of art that was stolen, destroyed or went missing under Nazi rule.
We're only making songs for Nigel on London transport
LONDON (Reuters) - A British man is making sweet music out of conversations he overhears on London transport at the Olympics and posting a song on the Internet every day of the Games for the world to hear.
Air intruders must be shot down, Belarus leader says
MINSK (Reuters) - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, smarting after a pro-democracy stunt in which teddy bears were dropped into Belarus, told his new border guards chief on Thursday to use weapons to stop any more unlawful air intrusions by foreigners.
Lithuania denies entry to Soviet-styled Porsche
VILNIUS (Reuters) - A Belarusian man driving a Porsche sports car emblazoned with the red and yellow flag of the Soviet Union was denied entry into Lithuania on Tuesday on the grounds that the public display of such symbols in the Baltic country is illegal.
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