TENTEGES

Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU (Reuters)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:05:53 +0000

Reuters - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.

"Dead" baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zoo (Reuters)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:05:53 +0000

Reuters - An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney’s main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb.

Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying (Reuters)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:05:53 +0000

Reuters - Canada’s largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country’s biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.

New Zealander auctions "ghosts" in a bottle (Reuters)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:05:52 +0000

Reuters - A New Zealand woman sold two vials that she said contained the ghosts of an old man and a young girl for almost NZ$2,000 ($1,410) after a fiercely contested online auction, local media reported.

Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse (Reuters)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:01:09 +0000

Reuters - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday.

Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy (Reuters)