Prayer Leader Defends Beating of Adulterous Wives (Reuters)

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Scottish leader defends friendship

Scottish leader defends friendship 01/06/2005 06:54 AM
First Minister Jack McConnell hits out at criticism over his friendship with BBC Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark.

Iraq Leader Defends U.S. Troop Presence
(AP)

Iraq Leader Defends U.S. Troop Presence
(AP) 06/04/2004 10:51 AM
AP - Iraq's new prime minister defended the continued presence of U.S.-led troops in the country, telling Iraqis in his first nationally televised address Friday that the forces' withdrawal would be a "major disaster."

Iraqi Leader Defends Attack (Los Angeles
Times)

Iraqi Leader Defends Attack (Los Angeles
Times) 06/21/2004 06:08 AM
Los Angeles Times - BAGHDAD — Iraq's interim prime minister on Sunday defended a U.S. missile attack on the city of Fallouja that left 22 people dead and said he planned to restructure Iraqi security forces to help battle a stubborn insurgency.

More Japanese think wives need not stay
home (Reuters)

More Japanese think wives need not stay
home (Reuters) 02/06/2005 03:16 AM
Reuters - For the first time, Japanese who believe that wives should stay home are in a minority -- but an overwhelming majority still wants women to do most household chores.

Bad Hubbies Try to Win Back Wives in TV
Show (Reuters)

Bad Hubbies Try to Win Back Wives in TV
Show (Reuters) 08/09/2004 07:54 AM
Reuters - A German reality television show will whip misbehaving husbands into shape in a physical and psychological battle to win back their wives, show producers said on Friday.

Married men earn more if wives do the
chores-study (Reuters)

Married men earn more if wives do the
chores-study (Reuters) 06/22/2005 02:18 AM
Reuters - Married men earn more than bachelors so long as their wives stay at home doing the housework, according to a report on Wednesday from Britain's Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER).

Henry VIII's Women May Have Been
Footballer's Wives (Reuters)

Henry VIII's Women May Have Been
Footballer's Wives (Reuters) 02/18/2004 12:02 PM
Reuters - He was famous for drinking, hunting, jousting and having six wives. But historians now think King Henry VIII may have had a secret passion -- football.

Players' Wives Give Team Lucky Strip
(Reuters)

Players' Wives Give Team Lucky Strip
(Reuters) 06/10/2004 02:43 PM
Reuters - If Russia win Euro 2004 the players will thank their lucky strip -- a nude photo-shoot by their wives.

Rabbi Offers Prayer for Web Porn
Browsers (Reuters)

Rabbi Offers Prayer for Web Porn
Browsers (Reuters) 01/22/2004 02:10 AM
Reuters - An Israeli rabbi has composed a prayer to help devout Jews overcome guilt after visiting porn web sites while browsing the Internet.

UK Muslims Hope Prayer Will Free Briton
Held in Iraq (Reuters)

UK Muslims Hope Prayer Will Free Briton
Held in Iraq (Reuters) 09/25/2004 09:17 PM
Reuters - A two-man delegation from Britain's biggest Muslim group arrived in Iraq on Saturday on a quest to free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, seized by Islamic militants nine days ago and threatened with death.

Four Charged in Beating Deaths of Six in
Florida (Reuters)

Four Charged in Beating Deaths of Six in
Florida (Reuters) 08/08/2004 05:09 PM
Reuters - A 27-year-old man and three 18-year-old men have been charged with murder in the beating deaths of six people at a house in central Florida, police said on Sunday.

Record-Beating Truffle Goes Home for
Burial (Reuters)

Record-Beating Truffle Goes Home for
Burial (Reuters) 12/19/2004 03:22 PM
Reuters - The world's most expensive truffle returned to Italy to be buried on Saturday.

Book offers tips on beating commuter
hell (Reuters)

Book offers tips on beating commuter
hell (Reuters) 06/17/2005 05:04 PM
Reuters - Look for women touching up their makeup. Learn the uniforms of schools along the route. Never stand in front of somebody who's sound asleep.

France expels imam for advocating
wife-beating (Reuters)

France expels imam for advocating
wife-beating (Reuters) 04/21/2004 04:51 AM
Reuters - France has expelled a Muslim prayer leader to his native Algeria after he defended the stoning and beating of adulterous wives as punishment allowed by the Koran even if it violated French law.

Pfizer CEO Defends Celebrex, Won't
Recall It (Reuters)

Pfizer CEO Defends Celebrex, Won't
Recall It (Reuters) 12/19/2004 03:35 PM
Reuters - Pfizer Chief Executive Hank McKinnell said on Sunday doctors should be made aware of the health risks in prescribing Celebrex to their patients, but the company does not plan to recall its popular arthritis drug.

Rumsfeld Defends U.S. Policy on
Guantanamo Prison (Reuters)

Rumsfeld Defends U.S. Policy on
Guantanamo Prison (Reuters) 02/13/2004 05:28 PM
Reuters - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday interrogations of the hundreds of foreign terrorism suspects held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had yielded vital information and he defended their indefinite detention.

Bush Defends Record, Protesters Hit NY
Streets (Reuters)

Bush Defends Record, Protesters Hit NY
Streets (Reuters) 08/28/2004 04:51 PM
Reuters - President Bush, on the road to next week's Republican convention, defended his economic record in hard-hit Ohio on Saturday as abortion-rights activists marched through New York City on the leading edge of a wave of anti-Bush protests.

Cheney Defends Rumsfeld: 'Get Off His
Case' (Reuters)

Cheney Defends Rumsfeld: 'Get Off His
Case' (Reuters) 05/09/2004 03:19 AM
Reuters - Vice President Dick Cheney moved to support Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld amid a firestorm over Iraqi prison abuses, with a statement that people should "get off his case" and let Rumsfeld do his job.

Turkish Premier Defends Plans to Outlaw
Adultery (Reuters)

Turkish Premier Defends Plans to Outlaw
Adultery (Reuters) 09/07/2004 08:49 AM
Reuters - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has defended plans to outlaw adultery that have outraged women's groups and raised eyebrows in the European Union, which Turkey aspires to join.

Army Defends Plan for Involuntary Troop
Call-Up (Reuters)

Army Defends Plan for Involuntary Troop
Call-Up (Reuters) 06/29/2004 05:11 PM
Reuters - The U.S. Army on Tuesday defended its plan to mobilize involuntarily 5,600 retired or discharged soldiers as nothing "new or unusual," but critics said it undermines the concept of an all-volunteer military.

Bush Defends Inclusion of Vietnam in
AIDS Fund (Reuters)

Bush Defends Inclusion of Vietnam in
AIDS Fund (Reuters) 06/23/2004 12:23 PM
Reuters - President Bush dismissed criticism of his decision to make Vietnam eligible for funds under a global AIDS initiative on Wednesday and said Washington was moving on from an era of bitterness with Hanoi.

Republicans Salute Bush, McCain Defends
Iraq War (Reuters)

Republicans Salute Bush, McCain Defends
Iraq War (Reuters) 08/30/2004 09:21 PM
Reuters - Led by Sen. John McCain, Republicans kicked off their convention on Monday with an impassioned tribute to President Bush's wartime leadership and his unwavering response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Bush Defends Limits on Stem Cell
Research (Reuters)

Bush Defends Limits on Stem Cell
Research (Reuters) 06/15/2004 07:48 PM
Reuters - President Bush on Tuesday defended his policy of strictly limiting stem cell research, despite pressure to reconsider after former President Ronald Reagan died of complications from Alzheimer's disease.

Soldier Who Killed 2 in Iraq Jail
Defends Actions (Reuters)

Soldier Who Killed 2 in Iraq Jail
Defends Actions (Reuters) 05/07/2004 09:49 PM
Reuters - A U.S. soldier who shot dead two Iraqis during a riot at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and fired rubber bullets at inmates said on Friday some force was needed to run a wartime prison.

Mexico defends comic book for illegal
immigrants (Reuters)

Mexico defends comic book for illegal
immigrants (Reuters) 01/05/2005 01:43 AM
Reuters - Mexico has defended a government comic book showing illegal migrants how to cross the border and live quietly in the United States against charges that it promotes undocumented immigration.

Cheney Defends Iraq War, Skirts Arms
Issue (Reuters)

Cheney Defends Iraq War, Skirts Arms
Issue (Reuters) 01/26/2004 09:13 AM
Reuters - Vice President Dick Cheney defended the U.S.-led Iraq war Monday amid mounting criticism over failure to find unconventional weapons.

Kerry Hits Back at White House, Defends
Patriotism (Reuters)

Kerry Hits Back at White House, Defends
Patriotism (Reuters) 04/16/2004 02:18 PM
Reuters - Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry, lashing out at the White House's "twisted sense of ethics and morality," accused Republicans on Friday of distorting his record and attacking his patriotism.

Ridge Defends 'Three-Year-Old' U.S.
Terror Alert (Reuters)

Ridge Defends 'Three-Year-Old' U.S.
Terror Alert (Reuters) 08/03/2004 02:38 PM
Reuters - The warning that key U.S. financial centers may be attacked by al Qaeda was based largely on three-year-old information, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said on Tuesday, but he insisted the threat was still real.

Ridge Defends 'Three-Year-Old' Terror
Alert (Reuters)

Ridge Defends 'Three-Year-Old' Terror
Alert (Reuters) 08/03/2004 12:17 PM
Reuters - The decision to warn key U.S. financial centers they may be attacked by al Qaeda was based largely on three-year old information, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said on Tuesday, but he insisted the threat was still real.

Teacher Sentenced for Slapping Leader
(Reuters)

Teacher Sentenced for Slapping Leader
(Reuters) 09/01/2004 07:52 AM
Reuters - An unemployed teacher received a four-month suspended sentence Friday and ordered to perform community service for slapping German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the face at a Social Democratic Party event in May.

Leader Tells Strikers to Take Holiday
(Reuters)

Leader Tells Strikers to Take Holiday
(Reuters) 05/03/2004 01:48 PM
Reuters - Bolivian President Carlos Mesa found a novel way to neutralize a general strike against his government -- rescheduling a national holiday to make it clash with the start of the protest on Monday.

Turkmen leader bans TV make-up (Reuters)

Turkmen leader bans TV make-up (Reuters) 08/12/2004 09:24 AM
Reuters - Turkmenistan's authoritarian president, whose recent decrees have included banning gold teeth, has told television presenters to stop wearing make-up because he had difficulty telling the men from the women.

Ousted Kyrgyz Leader Says Not Resigning
(Reuters)

Ousted Kyrgyz Leader Says Not Resigning
(Reuters) 03/29/2005 09:22 AM
Reuters - Kyrgyzstan's ousted President Askar Akayev, in exile in Russia following last week's coup in the Central Asian state, said on Tuesday that he would not resign.

U.N. Respects Iraq's Choice of Leader
(Reuters)

U.N. Respects Iraq's Choice of Leader
(Reuters) 05/28/2004 07:51 PM
Reuters - Iyad Allawi, a former member of Saddam Hussein's Baath party who worked with the CIA to topple him, was chosen as prime minister of Iraq on Friday.

Polish leader once worked illegally in
UK (Reuters)

Polish leader once worked illegally in
UK (Reuters) 05/06/2004 03:49 PM
Reuters - He wouldn't confirm that he was once a bartender in a London pub, but a cheerful Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski admitted that he worked illegally in Britain three decades ago.

Malawi leader afraid of ghosts (Reuters)

Malawi leader afraid of ghosts (Reuters) 03/14/2005 06:13 PM
Reuters - Malawians have prayed for their president after officials said he had left his 300-room mansion in the capital because of fears it was haunted.

Brownie leader: "Breasts are not
criminal" (Reuters)

Brownie leader: "Breasts are not
criminal" (Reuters) 03/08/2004 11:25 PM
Reuters - A demonstration billed as a topless march to protest anti-nudity laws has drawn in thousands of curious spectators but only a handful of marchers.

Opposition Leader Goes Back to College
(Reuters)

Opposition Leader Goes Back to College
(Reuters) 04/29/2004 07:47 AM
Reuters - A Tanzanian opposition leader is going back to college late in life to make sure he can run for president in next year's general election.

"The Stepford Wives"

"The Stepford Wives" 06/11/2004 08:22 AM
Even Nicole Kidman can't save this brainless remake of the overrated '70s film. Robotic, retro wives are fine, but not even the creepiest husband has ever been aroused by a tiara.
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