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Italian traffickers hide cocaine under rare python (Reuters)

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:18:02 +0000

Reuters – Italian police seized a rare albino python in Rome on Wednesday in a raid on a group of drug traffickers who used the snake to guard cocaine and intimidate customers who owed them money.

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Italian traffickers hide cocaine under rare python
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Airlines grounds overweight staff: paper (Reuters)

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:01:08 +0000

Reuters – Turkish Airlines has grounded 28 flight attendants for being overweight and given them six months to slim down or face reassignment, a newspaper said on Saturday.

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U.S. charges dropped against Japanese speed-eater (Reuters)

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:28:48 +0000

Reuters – A Japanese competitive eater won’t have to try jail food after all, a judge ruled on Thursday, dismissing charges against the skinny speed-feeder for crashing a hot dog eating contest.

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Haiti: might the earthquake worsen TB rates?

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:20:26 +0000

Prior to the earthquake of January 12th 2010, Haiti had experienced the highest TB notification rate in the Latin America and Caribbean region. In a forthcoming editorial in Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, Kevin Schwartzman and colleagues from the McGill University Health Centre (Montreal, Canada) discuss whether the devastation of Haiti six months ago will lead to an unavoidable increase …

Missing pensioner is found dead (BBC News)

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:47:38 +0000

A pensioner suffering from dementia who went missing nearly six months ago is found dead by a man walking his dog.

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