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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Reuters Oddly Enough Report

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11/21/2013

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

Frog named after Darwin croaks its last

LONDON (Reuters) - A frog named after Charles Darwin has gone extinct because of a deadly amphibian skin disease, scientists believe.

Airbus plane appears in Seattle ad championing efforts to woo Boeing

OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - An advertisement placed in The Seattle Times on Wednesday by a group hoping to encourage Washington state to keep up its fight to secure the coveted work on the new Boeing 777 includes a notable miscue.

Australian kangaroo exporters look to hop into meat-hungry China

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Once considered pet food, kangaroo meat could soon be sold to China as a luxury product, to encourage Chinese consumers to do something few Australians will - eat it.

Solved: the riddle of the rotating Egyptian statue

LONDON (Reuters) - For months, curators at a British museum had been wondering how an ancient Egyptian statue in a sealed display cabinet had been able to rotate on its glass shelf, seemingly of its own free will.

German "luxury bishop" settles with court over 1st class flight-to-poverty case

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court has dropped for the time being an investigation into a Roman Catholic prelate known as the "luxury bishop" over accusations he lied under oath about taking a first-class flight to visit poverty projects in India.

Lunch box bomb scare turns into bullion chase

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Two lunch boxes hidden in the toilets of a Jet Airways plane triggered first a bomb scare and then a smuggling probe as the tins were found to contain 12 gold bars each, a senior customs official said on Wednesday.

Pilot protests $3,000 bill for landing on Pennsylvania Turnpike

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - A pilot who landed his small plane on a rural stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike after its propeller fell off is protesting a $3,000 bill he received for towing his aircraft from the roadway, saying such fees could cause other pilots to seek out more dangerous emergency landing options.

Stolen custom neon green wheelchair returned to Ohio boy

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A custom neon green wheelchair stolen from a 9-year-old Cleveland boy was returned anonymously to a police station on Thursday but with serious damage.

'Selfie' beats 'twerk' as word of the year

LONDON (Reuters) - "Selfie" - a self portrait usually on a smartphone or webcam - was selected word of the year on Tuesday by the Oxford Dictionaries, based on a 17,000 percent rise in its usage from a year ago.

'Wild Bill' Hickok's pistol fails to sell at San Francisco auction

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The revolver carried by Old West lawman James "Wild Bill" Hickok on the day he was shot down at a Deadwood saloon failed to sell at an auction in San Francisco on Monday, with bidders failing to meet the steep reserve set by the gun's owners.