Alaskans irked after midnight solstice game halted (Reuters)

Reuters – Baseball fans in Alaska were fuming after a traditional midnight game, held every year without lights during the twilight hours of the summer solstice, was postponed for the first time because a visiting California team complained it was too dark.

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Online flirting: it’s all about lip service (Reuters)

Reuters – “Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?,” asked Shakespeare. Now, women of the world have replied: “No, just tell me I have beautiful lips.”

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World Cup soccer’s psychic octopus dies (Reuters)

Reuters – Paul, the oracle octopus who shot to fame in the World Cup this summer for his uncanny ability to predict the results of Germany’s soccer matches, has died at his home in Oberhausen at the age of two.

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World Cup’s psychic octopus dies in Germany (Reuters)

Reuters – Paul, the oracle octopus who shot to fame in the World Cup this summer for his uncanny ability to predict the results of Germany’s football matches, has died at his home in Oberhausen at the age of two.

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Mich. man gathering corn confronted by alligator (AP)

AP – A man gathering sweet corn in southern Michigan is the latest to have an unexpected encounter with an alligator. The animals have been showing up far north of their traditional habitats this summer. Jeff Adamski of Burr Oak said he was picking corn near the Michigan-Indiana border when two women who were a few rows over came running and screaming, saying they had seen an alligator.

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"Ordain women," London bus ads will urge Pope (Reuters)

Reuters – Pope Benedict will be confronted by posters on London’s famous red buses during his trip to the British capital next month which will call for the ordination of women priests.

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Lawnmower race trimmed by economic woes (Reuters)

Reuters – An annual lawnmower race has become a sporting victim of recession-hit Britain this summer, trimmed down to four hours from its usual 12 hours.

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Professor returns from vacation, gets ‘foiled’ (AP)

AP – A science professor at Gustavus Adolphus College left for a week’s vacation this summer and returned to a shiny office. Very shiny. Professor Scott Bur’s students had covered his office in aluminum foil.

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