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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Reuters Oddly Enough Report

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10/4/2012

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

New Orleans prosecutor arrested after joint falls from his pocket in court

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A New Orleans city attorney was arrested for possession of marijuana and suspended from his job after a joint tumbled from his pocket in front of police in court.

Blue and green honey makes French beekeepers see red

MULHOUSE, France (Reuters) - Bees at a cluster of apiaries in northeastern France have been producing honey in mysterious shades of blue and green, alarming their keepers who now believe residue from containers of M&M's candy processed at a nearby biogas plant is the cause.

Croatia plans to fine clients of prostitutes

ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia's government has proposed fines of $1,700 - about twice the average monthly salary - for prostitutes and their customers, targeting the buyers of sex for the first time.

Romans, Han Dynasty were greenhouse gas emitters: study

OSLO (Reuters) - A 200-year period covering the heyday of both the Roman Empire and China's Han dynasty saw a big rise in greenhouse gases, according to a study that challenges the U.N. view that man-made climate change only began around 1800.

Plot thickens as Quebec police seize cache of maple syrup

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian police may have caught a break in the sweetest crime of the year, seizing thousands of gallons of maple syrup from an exporter on suspicions that it was part of a cache of syrup that went missing from a Quebec warehouse in late August.

Italian protester climbs down from St Peter's Basilica in Rome

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - An Italian beach bar owner who climbed onto the dome of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome to protest against plans to open up the country's seafront business sector to more competition came down on Wednesday after a 24-hour protest.

Teddy finally wins presidents Race at Nationals Park

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bitterly fought presidential race in Washington came to a head on Wednesday as Teddy Roosevelt, whose losing streak had sparked an enthusiastic fan base, finally won the crowd-pleasing mascot footrace before baseball fans at Nationals Stadium.

Pablo Escobar T-shirts a hit in Mexico drug war states

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Nearly two decades after Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar died in a hail of bullets, his eldest son is conquering new markets in Mexico - with a fashion line in his father's image.

Swingers' hotel? German firm's expense claims laid bare

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German insurance giant revealed employees put a trip to a swingers' hotel in Jamaica on company expenses when it published the results of an internal audit on a public website.

Genetically engineered cow makes anti-allergy milk

LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers in New Zealand have genetically engineered a cow to produce milk with very little of a protein that causes an allergic reaction in some children.