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Friday, November 22, 2013

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11/22/2013

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

Please can we have our bells back? ravaged Philippine town asks U.S.

BALANGIGA, Philippines (Reuters) - In the devastated coastal Philippine town of Balangiga, a Roman Catholic belfry with a maroon steeple rises from the rubble, a battered symbol of resistance for a people with mixed feelings about the U.S. military now helping them survive.

Boeing cargo jet takes off after mistaken Kansas landing

WICHITA, Kansas (Reuters) - A Boeing cargo jet that was stranded overnight at a Kansas airport too small to handle the giant aircraft took off safely Thursday and landed a short time later at what had been its intended destination, officials said.

For whom the bell cracks; Harvard sues over defective clapper

BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University has sued an Ohio company, saying a defective bell clapper sold by the company broke an 81-year-old, 5,000-pound (2,268 kg) bell dedicated to the memory of its students who died in World War I.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.