Showing stories from 4 February 2010
BBC News (United Kingdom) 4 Feb 23:45
Naples celebrates official EU recognition for the Italian city's most famous culinary creation: the pizza.
KTRK (USA) 4 Feb 20:48
Soon Britons will be able to get smashed at the pub while their pint glasses won't
RedOrbit (USA) 4 Feb 18:26
Police said Wednesday that a women viewing a tourist webcam in northern Germany spotted a man that was lost on the frozen North Sea and probably saved his life by alerting authorities.
Yahoo! News 4 Feb 18:05
Reuters - A Chinese woman is seeking extensive plastic surgery to look like U.S. actress Jessica Alba, mainly because she hopes to win back her boyfriend who she said always wished she looked more like the Hollywood star.Yahoo! News 4 Feb 18:04
Reuters - A traditional Emirati restaurant in Dubai has added a new entree to its menu billed as a fat-free choice for carnivorous but health-conscious diners: the Camel Burger.
KTRK (USA) 4 Feb 17:28
A deputy arrested on a drunken driving charge wound up in a dog house before he was taken to the big house
RedOrbit (USA) 4 Feb 16:25
Insects, a popular delicacy in many parts of the world, are getting a culinary makeover in one Central American city, where scientists are ?growing? insects that will be tailored for human consumption.
WLS (USA) 4 Feb 16:17
A New Yorker faces a $135 traffic fine for using a mannequin as her "plus one" in the high-occupancy vehicle lane of the Long Island Expressway.
BBC News (United Kingdom) 4 Feb 13:49
Keepers at a Scottish safari park were alerted to rhino birth by a webcam viewer from Cyprus who called them to say the animal's waters had broken, it emerges.
BBC News (United Kingdom) 4 Feb 12:35
Two pandas born in the US are due to be flown to China to be re-settled - where they face a new diet and language.
Boston.com (USA) 4 Feb 12:06
A Butte restaurant was burglarized three times in four days, but the last time, the would-be thieves left empty handed. The first break-in and burglary of Casagranda's restaurant happened sometime overnight Friday and was reported at 10 a.m. Saturday. Butte-Silver Bow Sheriff John Walsh said the suspect or suspects forced a door open and took the contents of the tip ...
Metro (United Kingdom) 4 Feb 11:49
An Australian man is facing charges after his attempts to kiss a police sniffer dog led to a row in which he was pepper sprayed and arrested.
Metro (United Kingdom) 4 Feb 11:05
Officials at an American jail have intercepted an illicit cantaloupe sent to inmates - and discovered that it was full of drugs.
Metro (United Kingdom) 4 Feb 10:26
A Slovenian man who saved his three dogs from being put down after they were accused of attacking humans has been found mauled to death by the same dogs.
SFGate (USA) 4 Feb 10:19
Enraged by protesters likening him to a "big and stupid" water buffalo, Indonesia's president has ordered the beasts and other animals banned at street rallies, a decision some Indonesians said shows their leader can't handle criticism. The ban, issued...
Metro (United Kingdom) 4 Feb 09:20
A sleepy Yorkshire village has fallen foul of a crazed pheasant, which has harassed residents and local dogs, and chased prams and cars.
Metro (United Kingdom) 4 Feb 09:05
A new book remembers the talented rabbit whose heats of balancing things on his head made him an early web star.
Boston.com (USA) 4 Feb 00:06
A Jefferson County jury has awarded a former stripper $100,000 in a lawsuit in which she claimed the club that employed her failed to stop her from driving home after her on-the-job drinking. Patsy Hamaker of Bessemer was injured in a wreck after leaving work at The Furnace on Oct. 17, 2007. She said she can no longer dance because ...
Boston.com (USA) 4 Feb 00:06
A Tennessee sheriff's deputy arrested on a drunken driving charge wound up in a dog house before he was taken to the big house. The Kingsport Times-News reported the details of a Tennessee Highway Patrol arrest report, which said 47-year-old Samuel Monroe Bledsoe was kicking the windows of a trooper's cruiser on his way to a hospital for a blood ...
Boston.com (USA) 4 Feb 00:06
The tipoff was the sunglasses. A New Yorker faces a $135 traffic fine for using a mannequin as her plus-one in the high-occupancy lane of the Long Island Expressway. An alert sheriff's deputy on Long Island became suspicious when he saw the "passenger" wearing sunglasses and using the visor. The only problem: The sky was overcast.

