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Monday, November 25, 2013

Reuters Oddly Enough Report

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11/25/2013

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

French riders protest over tax, saying horses will suffer

PARIS (Reuters) - Thousands of horse-lovers paraded their animals through central Paris on Sunday in a protest against a planned sales tax rise they say will put riding centers out of business and send horses to the slaughterhouse.

Two shot dead at 'Gangnam Style' wedding dance in Yemen

SANAA (Reuters) - A Yemeni wedding ended in disaster after a guest firing celebratory shots in the air with his AK-47 accidentally killed two men while they were dancing to pop hit "Gangnam Style", according to a police source and a video posted online.

UNHCR tries to help Saudi woman who eloped to Yemen: source

SANAA (Reuters) - The U.N. has called for a Saudi woman to be given asylum in Yemen to avoid being deported back to Saudi Arabia, after she eloped with a Yemeni man, a U.N. official said on Sunday

'Penniless' man is worth $65 million, court rules - and must give wife half

LONDON (Reuters) - One of Britain's longest and most bitter divorce battles culminated on Friday with a High Court judge branding a well-connected millionaire a liar and his ex-wife a conspiracy theorist.

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.