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Chinese man seeks divorce after smog drives family apart
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing man is seeking to divorce his wife after she took their son to a tropical island province to escape the capital's notorious smog, saying the long-distance relationship had destroyed their marriage, state media said on Thursday.
Baseball-Korean umpire assaulted by fan from 'Surprise Zone'
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean baseball fan ran onto the field and assaulted an umpire on Wednesday after climbing over a fence in the "Surprise Zone" at Champions Field stadium in the southern city of Gwangju.
California lawmakers break for Twain-inspired jumping-frog contest
SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - California lawmakers set aside the business of running the most populous U.S. state on Wednesday to gather on the state capitol lawn to see who could coax a frog to hop the farthest in a contest inspired by Mark Twain's gold-rush tale, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
Venezuela to crush cars, bikes to build houses
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela said on Tuesday it would start crushing abandoned cars and bicycles to provide raw materials for housing construction and supplement drastically reduced amounts of local steel.
China to outlaw eating of protected animal species
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will jail people who eat rare animals for 10 years or more under a new interpretation of the criminal law, state media reported, as the government seeks to close a legal loophole and better protect the natural environment.
Australian mistook cockpit for toilet, triggering hijack scare
JAKARTA/PERTH (Reuters) - An Australian passenger mistook the cockpit door for the toilet, triggering Friday's hijack scare on a Virgin Australia flight from Brisbane to the Indonesian holiday island of Bali, police said.
Hawaii flight stowaway's family split for years, refugee mom says
(Reuters) - The Somali mother of a teen stowaway who survived a flight from California to Hawaii in the plane's wheel well said in a radio interview from a refugee camp in Ethiopia that she had not been able to speak to her son for years before his risky adventure.
Sri Lanka deports British tourist for her Buddha tattoo
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka on Thursday deported a British tourist for having a tattoo of Buddha on her arm which a court said was an insult to the island's main religion.
Uruguay to allow pot users to buy up to 20 joints a week
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguayans will be able buy up to 10 grams of pot a week, enough to roll 20 joints, under new rules governing the recently legalized marijuana trade in the country, a government source said on Thursday.
Peaches Geldof's death likely linked to heroin, inquest hears
GRAVESEND Kent (Reuters) - Heroin probably played a role in the death of Peaches Geldof, the daughter of musician and Band Aid founder Bob Geldof, who died in her family home last month while alone with one of her two young sons, police said on Thursday.
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