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German police find skeleton in carry-on luggage
Two elderly women stunned police at Munich airport when they passed through security with a human skull and several bones in their carry-on luggage, German authorities said Wednesday. Security staff spotted the human remains in a sealed bag belonging ...

Short people are most prone to jealousy, say scientists
Short people should pray for a return to the Seventies fashion of stack heels, for the power of jealousy depends on how tall you are, the British weekly New Scientist says. Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and University o...

E-voting is for beer-swigging, porn-loving youths: Polish ex-PM
Poland should not adopt online voting because the Internet is the preserve of beer-swilling youths with a penchant for pornography, the former prime minister said on Wednesday. "I am not enthusiastic about the idea of a youngster sitting at his comput...

Woman foretells future with asparagus
An Englishwoman from the country's main asparagus-growing area says she discovered by accident that asparagus can be a fortuneteller's tool.Jemima Packington of Worcestershire took her gift to the British Trade and Travel Fair in Birmingham as a ...

'Islamophobia' a threat to world security, say Muslim states
The world's Muslim countries warned Wednesday that an "alarming" rise in anti-Islamic insults and attacks in the West has become a threat to international security. The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) called on Europe and America to take ...

Fake Olympic vodka seized in Russia
Russian prosecutors have confiscated thousands of bottles of illegal Olympic vodka, six years before the Winter Olympic Games come to Russia, an official said Wednesday. Close to 14,000 bottles of vodka that used the Olympic name without permission we...

Guinness recognizes 235-pound crabcake
A 235-pound crab cake created in Delaware has been given the nod from the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest fishcake ever.The cake was 3 feet across and eventually made its way into 600 crab sandwiches, the Delmarva, Md., Daily Times reported. ...

Insurer red-faced over billing dead man
A Canadian insurance company says a computer error was behind a bill sent to a Toronto-area man who had been dead for almost a month.Jeff Menary, 51, died Feb. 16 of cancer in Mississauga, an adjacent city west of Toronto. Weeks after, as his sister Ellen ...

Battered men jostle for space in crowded Danish shelters
Battered women in Denmark have a multitude of shelters to choose from but men in need of a haven after divorce, losing their job or fleeing abusive wives have to elbow for room in just three brimming crisis centres. Overlooking a canal in the pictures...

Girl accidentally dunks grandmother's car
A Louisiana woman who heard an uproar outside her apartment Wednesday learned that her granddaughter had dunked her car in the swimming pool.Margaret Gober and a maintenance worker at her Shreveport, La., apartment complex had to get 11-year-old Dineshia o...

6,000 Post-its make one big Abe Lincoln
An art student at Illinois Wesleyan University has used Post-it notes -- 6,000 of them -- to create a giant portrait of Abraham Lincoln.Chris Killham told the Pantagraph, a Bloomington, Ill., newspaper, he was inspired by the art school director, Miles Bla...

Lardy Mafia suspect too fat for jail
A suspected Mafia clan member weighing 210 kilogrammes (460 pounds) was placed under house arrest after putting too heavy a burden on prison staff, Italian press reports said Wednesday. A court in the Sicilian capital Palermo agreed to allow Salvatore...

Bangladesh retreats on women's rights after clerics protest
Bangladesh's military-backed government has backed down from a policy to ensure equal property rights to women amid angry protests by Muslim clerics that the move would override Islamic law. The country's law minister Hasan Arif said the government "d...

EU's highest inflation rate dampens Latvian shoppers
Struggling with the highest inflation rate (15.6 percent) in the 27-member EU, Latvian consumers are becoming reluctant shoppers in sharp contrast to the retail frenzy that saw soaring sales in recent years. In January retail sales in the ex-Soviet Ba...

TUNISIAN DELEGATION ATTENDS BERLIN INTERNATIONAL TOURISM BOURSE
According to online press (March 11, 2008), a large delegation of tourism professionals took part in the Berlin International Tourism Bourse (ITB) which was organized in Germany through March 5 to 9, 2008. Tunisia's Tourism Minister, Mr. Khelil Lajimi, sai...

GERMAN TOURISTS SPENDING VALUED
According to online press (March 11, 2008), Tunisia's Tourism Minister, Mr. Khelil Lajimi, said that the German tourists spent TD 480 million in Tunisia in 2007, an increase of 5,6% in comparison with 2006. It is worth pointing out that Germany represents ...

EGYPTIAN-POLISH SUMMIT FOR REACTIVATING EU ROLE IN ME PEACE PROCESS
Presidential level since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Egypt and Poland, in 1927, President Mubarak arrived Monday10/3/2008 in Warsaw on a three-day official visit to Poland. The two leaders will hold a press conference in which they wo...

TD 5 MILLION TO PROMOTE TOURISM
According to online press (March 11, 2008), Tunisia's Tourism Minister, Mr. Khelil Lajimi, said that out of the TD 5 million earmarked to boost the tourist sector, TD 1.5 million have specifically been allocated to the German market. The money will go to a...

EGYPT CRITICIZES ISRAEL'S PLANS TO BUILD 750 HOUSING UNITS NEAR EAST JERUSALEM
"Egypt strongly criticized Monday 10/3/2008 Israel's announced plans to build 750 new housing units in Giv'at Zaif Jewish settlement near East Jerusalem or El-Quds. Those plans flagrantly run against the political dialogue to settle the Palestinian-Israeli...

SULTANATE / PARTICIPATION
According to Oman News: The Sultanate will take part at the first scientific conference on human trafficking between theory and practice organized by the National Office for Combating Human Trafficking in collaboration with Qatar University scheduled to co...

HARD CURRENCY RESERVES WITH CBE REACH $ 32.2BILLION
"The net hard currency reserves with the CBE reached in the period from July 2007 to January 2008 32.2 billion dollars at an increase of 3.6 billion dollars or 12.8 percent compared to the same period in the year before," said the monthly report of the Cen...

OMAN ENVIRONMENT EXHIBITION IS OPENED
According to Oman News: Oman Environment Exhibition, Gulf Eco 2008, organized by the Ministry of Environment & Climate Affairs and Oman International Trade and Exhibition commenced here at the Oman International Exhibition Centre today. Shaikh Al-Fadel...

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT EXPORTS TO RISE 20%
March 12, 2008According to anba: The musical instrument industry in Brazil wants to increase its exports by 20% this year. According to projections of the National Association of Manufacturers of Musical and Audio Instruments (Anafima) and the Brazilian Ex...

$16.75M SPENT ON HISTORIC BUILDING RESTORATION
According to news.gov.hk: The Antiquities & Monuments Office has spent $16.75 million on restoration and maintenance of historic buildings in the last three years, Secretary for Development Carrie Lam says. Within this total $3.13 million was used to r...