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Reuters - Norwegian Princess Leah's name was inspired by a character in a "Star Wars" movie, the mother of the infant princess was quoted as saying on Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050616/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_princess

Reuters - Absence makes the heart grow fonder -- especially for the French who want their franc back. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050615/od_uk_nm/oukoe_france_franc

German police arrested three Iraqi men Tuesday in raids on suspected backers of Iraqi militant group Ansar al-Islam, which the United States calls a major insurgent group allied to al Qaeda...

Three Iraqi citizens living in Germany and suspected of supporting militant group Ansar al-Islam were detained in raids by police on Tuesday morning, German prosecutors said...

Reuters - An Italian supermarket chain that still accepts the old lira currency has seen a jump in business since the Northern League launched its campaign to ditch the euro and bring back the lira, the store said on Tuesday...

Reuters - Filmmaker Steven Spielberg praised Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's "movie star good looks" on Monday, but nimbly dodged the question of whether the Japanese leader had a future in film...

Reuters - "Matthew" is a lucky name in Britain, according to research on Thursday which showed males of that name have won the most prize money so far this year in the nation's monthly Premium Bonds draw...

Reuters - Britons may not be the world's greatest linguists but an opera company's decision to introduce surtitles to its performances has raised eyebrows -- as it only sings in English...

Reuters - The Georgia "runaway bride" whose highly publicized disappearance days before her wedding turned out to be a case of cold feet pleaded no contest on Thursday to a felony charge of making a false statement to police...

Reuters - Call centre workers shown on TV singing with their mouths full have prompted a flood of complaints from those concerned over the depiction of bad manners...

Reuters - Canada's post office is threatening to stop mail deliveries to a woman in Ottawa because her doorstep is 10 centimetres (three inches) too high, the Ottawa Citizen newspaper reported on Tuesday...

Producers of the upcoming movie based on the blockbuster novel "The Da Vinci Code" were not allowed to film in Britain's Westminster Abbey after church officials denounced the book as "theologically unsound."...

Reuters - No stranger to the burning issues of the day, Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu was really fired up during a radio interview on Sunday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050529/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_israel_netanyahu

Reuters - The Bush administration is undertaking a review of its anti-terrorism strategy in recognition that the al Qaeda network has morphed substantially in past years, the Washington Post reported on Sunday...

Reuters - Three Romanian journalists kidnapped in Iraq were freed on Sunday after two months in captivity, one of the few security breakthroughs since insurgents launched an upsurge in deadly attacks last month...

Reuters - Microsoft founder Bill Gates sees mobile phones overtaking MP3s as the top choice of portable music player, and views the raging popularity of Apple's iPod player as unsustainable, he told a German newspaper...

A crude bomb planted by Muslim separatist rebels ripped through a vehicle in the heart of Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar on Wednesday, killing two people and wounding 35 others...

Reuters - Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday said it was launching a new online music subscription service, aggressively competing against current providers such as Apple Computer Inc. , RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody and Napster Inc. with lower pricing...

Reuters - PalmOne Inc. is expected next week to unveil a digital media device to rival the iPod, as the maker of hand held computers and mobile phones shoots for a piece of the growing market for portable music and video...

Reuters - PalmOne Inc. is expected next week to unveil a digital media device to rival the iPod, as the maker of hand held computers and mobile phones shoots for a piece of the growing market for portable music and video...