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Perjury charge filed in Air India bombing case (Reuters via Yahoo! News) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=121ej33kt/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060218/wl_nm/crime_airindia_dc_2 Array Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:33:39 GMT A perjury charge was filed on Friday against a Sikh...

Singapore hangman hopes to execute Australian (Reuters via Yahoo! News) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=12mef3rqd/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051128/wl_nm/crime_singapore_australia_interview_dc_1 Array Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:56:25 GMT Singapore's chief executioner, who...

Reuters - They won't be leaping tall buildings in a single bound, but Japan's growing number of elderly may someday have a new lease of life that allows them to care for themselves -- and maybe even pump a little iron...

Reuters - Hong Kong's central business district, famous for gleaming skyscrapers and fashionable bars, is facing an invasion of rats. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050718/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_hongkong_rats

Reuters - A 105-year-old survivor of the Nazi's Dachau concentration camp and his 100-year-old wife have earned the title of the world's oldest married couple. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050715/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_couple

Reuters - A Canadian teenager caught driving at almost twice the speed limit told police he had overdosed on a protein drink and was desperately looking for a washroom, the Ottawa Citizen reported on Friday...

Pope Benedict believes the Harry Potter books subtly seduce young readers and "distort Christianity in the soul" before it can develop properly, according to comments attributed to him by a German writer...

Reuters - A New Zealand man charged with putting a prostitute's life at risk by removing a condom during sex has been fined in a groundbreaking case, welcomed on Friday by civil rights groups and sex workers...

Reuters - A Zimbabwean court has jailed a man masquerading as a female athlete for three-and-a-half years, court officials said on Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050714/od_uk_nm/oukoe_zimbabwe_athlete

Reuters - Singapore's richest charity has dropped a libel suit against a local media group after revelations about its chief's half a million dollar salary, first class travel and gold-plated office bathroom fittings...

Reuters - Connecticut on Tuesday joined a growing effort to weed out marijuana-flavored candy from store shelves when its attorney general said he would sponsor a statewide ban on "Pot Suckers" lollipops...

A Dutch-Moroccan man confessed in court on Tuesday to murdering a filmmaker critical of Islam last year, breaking his silence over a killing that fanned religious and racial tension in the Netherlands...

A Dutch-Moroccan man confessed in court on Tuesday to murdering a filmmaker critical of Islam last year, breaking his silence over a killing that fanned religious and racial tension in the Netherlands...

Reuters - Two years after a kilted Irish priest ran out on to the track and caused havoc at the British Grand Prix, a naked Scot jogged out in front of 100,000 Formula One fans on Sunday...

Reuters - A slum street so narrow that a car can't pass winds past unsightly red-brick shacks, so a monolithic three-story building bearing a giant sign reading "The Maze" in English really stands out...

Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush says he has finally reached his limits. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050707/od_uk_nm/oukoe_bush_cyclist

Reuters - Thousands of runners dodged the horns of half-tonne fighting bulls on Pamplona's streets on the first day of Spain's best known fiesta on Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050707/od_uk_nm/oukoe_spain_pamplona

Reuters - A melon caused a Cambodian truck to overturn, killing one person and injuring 30, officials said on Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050707/od_uk_nm/oukoe_cambodia_accident

As the European Union agonizes over its uncertain future after French and Dutch voters rejected its constitution, a dedicated band of historians is trying to unite Europe by giving it a common past...

Reuters - Who needs a sommelier? A "talking" wine label could soon tell consumers in Italy everything they want to know about a particular bottle -- from its production history to the kind of food it should accompany...