Bible-belt town bans blasphemy (Reuters)

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Town Bans Dogs from Historic Center
(Reuters)

Town Bans Dogs from Historic Center
(Reuters) 07/01/2004 10:31 AM
Reuters - Nothing is quite so bad for a good pair of Italian shoes as an encounter with the curse of city pavements far and wide -- dog excrement.

Canada PM Scolded by Aunt, Apologizes
for Blasphemy (Reuters)

Canada PM Scolded by Aunt, Apologizes
for Blasphemy (Reuters) 09/14/2004 01:03 PM
Reuters - Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin apologized on Tuesday for blasphemy during a nationally televised meeting on health care reform -- but only after his aunt told him that his mouth should be washed out with soap.

Boy takes joyride on airport conveyor
belt (Reuters)

Boy takes joyride on airport conveyor
belt (Reuters) 07/27/2004 04:06 AM
Reuters - A four-year-old boy caused chaos at a Norwegian airport this week when he hopped aboard a luggage conveyor belt as if it were a merry-go-round.

Russians fined in blasphemy case

Russians fined in blasphemy case 03/28/2005 10:46 AM
A Moscow court fines a leading human rights activist and colleague for a "blasphemous" art show.

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.

Zoo bans man who lost finger to jaguar
(Reuters)

Zoo bans man who lost finger to jaguar
(Reuters) 05/18/2004 08:52 PM
Reuters - A New Mexico man made a hasty exit from a zoo after climbing close to a cage to illegally pet a jaguar, but police were able to track him down by the severed finger he left behind.

Ireland bans EU video over nipple
(Reuters)

Ireland bans EU video over nipple
(Reuters) 05/21/2004 11:36 AM
Reuters - Four months after Janet Jackson outraged the United States by bearing her breast on TV, Ireland has banned a video to encourage voting in next month's European elections because it shows a bare nipple.

Off Key? Off Color? City Bans Karaoke
Booths (Reuters)

Off Key? Off Color? City Bans Karaoke
Booths (Reuters) 01/22/2004 08:42 AM
Reuters - Karaoke singers in the California city of San Mateo can still sound as bad as they want, but now they will have to do it in public.

N. Korea Bans Mobile Phones for Citizens
(Reuters)

N. Korea Bans Mobile Phones for Citizens
(Reuters) 06/04/2004 10:45 AM
Reuters - North Korea has banned citizens from using mobile phones since late May, an official of the communist state said Thursday, about a year and a half after it introduced the service to the nation.

Memo Says Bush Not Restricted by Torture
Bans (Reuters)

Memo Says Bush Not Restricted by Torture
Bans (Reuters) 06/08/2004 06:27 PM
Reuters - President Bush, as commander-in-chief, is not restricted by U.S. and international laws barring torture, Bush administration lawyers stated in a March 2003 memorandum.

Leader, Muddled by Gender, Bans TV
Make-Up (Reuters)

Leader, Muddled by Gender, 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.

Airline bans woman for air rage over
phone (Reuters)

Airline bans woman for air rage over
phone (Reuters) 06/09/2004 02:54 AM
Reuters - Vietnam Airlines has banned a woman from flying on its planes after she attacked an attendant who tried to stop her from repeatedly using a mobile phone during a domestic flight last month.

Shanghai bans "feudal" building names
(Reuters)

Shanghai bans "feudal" building names
(Reuters) 08/04/2004 06:21 AM
Reuters - China's richest and most cosmopolitan city, Shanghai, has banned the use of "feudal, aristocratic, foreign and immoral" names for buildings as it seeks to raise cultural standards, a spokeswoman says.

Colorado Campus Bans Beer Sales at
Stadium (Reuters)

Colorado Campus Bans Beer Sales at
Stadium (Reuters) 09/17/2004 08:20 PM
Reuters - Colorado State University, plagued by drinking binges that led to the death of a student and a weekend of rioting, has banned all beer sales at the football stadium starting with the homecoming game this weekend, officials said on Friday.

Oregon town up for sale (Reuters)

Oregon town up for sale (Reuters) 08/18/2004 04:53 PM
Reuters - The small town of Otis, Oregon is up for sale again as its octogenarian owner tries to find a buyer willing to part with $3 million (1.91 million pounds) for a restaurant, gas station, market, Pronto Pup corn dog shack, two homes and a barn.

Coastal town goes bananas (Reuters)

Coastal town goes bananas (Reuters) 12/29/2003 11:39 PM
Reuters - Residents of a Lithuanian resort received an early Christmas present when 50 tonnes of bananas washed up on the Baltic coast.

Town Goes on a Lion Hunt (Reuters)

Town Goes on a Lion Hunt (Reuters) 05/05/2004 08:15 AM
Reuters - Police in the suburbs of Ohio's capital, Columbus, called in a helicopter and big-game experts on Tuesday to help search for what could be a lion.

U.S. Says It Kills 13 Insurgents in
Iraqi Town (Reuters)

U.S. Says It Kills 13 Insurgents in
Iraqi Town (Reuters) 05/11/2004 02:10 AM
Reuters - U.S. troops killed 13 members of rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sar's Mehdi Army in skirmishes near the Iraqi city of Kufa overnight, a senior U.S. military official said on Tuesday.

UFO Town Seeks Aid for Earthly Visitors
(Reuters)

UFO Town Seeks Aid for Earthly Visitors
(Reuters) 08/11/2004 11:38 AM
Reuters - A Polish town plans to ask the European Union for the equivalent of $126 million to help it build facilities for hundreds of visitors lured by its mysterious crop circles, a local official said on Tuesday.

U.S. town launches lion hunt (Reuters)

U.S. town launches lion hunt (Reuters) 05/04/2004 12:30 PM
Reuters - Police in the suburbs of Ohio's capital, Columbus, have called in a helicopter and big-game experts to help search for a large animal believed to be a lion.

U.S. Forces Target Guerrillas Near Town
of Samarra (Reuters)

U.S. Forces Target Guerrillas Near Town
of Samarra (Reuters) 08/06/2004 05:52 AM
Reuters - At least three people were killed in the Iraqi town of Samarra on Friday during an operation by U.S. forces to crack down on insurgents around the town, a U.S. military spokesman said.

U.S. Warplanes Bomb Iraqi Town of
Falluja (Reuters)

U.S. Warplanes Bomb Iraqi Town of
Falluja (Reuters) 09/08/2004 01:30 AM
Reuters - U.S. warplanes on Wednesday launched air strikes on the Iraqi town of Falluja, a hotbed of resistance to Iraq's U.S.-backed government, witnesses said.

Town kills 500 pigs for mating with dogs
(Reuters)

Town kills 500 pigs for mating with dogs
(Reuters) 07/09/2004 06:57 AM
Reuters - A Kenyan mayor has ordered more than 500 pigs to be shot dead because they were mating with stray dogs, the East African Standard has reported.

Town called "Luck" lands lottery win
(Reuters)

Town called "Luck" lands lottery win
(Reuters) 12/24/2004 01:13 PM
Reuters - A town called "Luck" has lived up to its name by turning up the winning ticket in Spain's Christmas lottery, one of the world's biggest prizes known as El Gordo (The Fat One).

U.S. Air Strike Kills Four in Iraqi Town
of Falluja (Reuters)

U.S. Air Strike Kills Four in Iraqi Town
of Falluja (Reuters) 06/22/2004 05:29 PM
Reuters - The U.S. military said it launched a "precision strike" on a safe house used by militants linked to al Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Tuesday night.

Town Hosts 'Wack the Iraq' Game
(Reuters)

Town Hosts 'Wack the Iraq' Game
(Reuters) 08/30/2004 09:55 AM
Reuters - A New Jersey game called "Wack the Iraq," where players fire paintballs at people dressed as Arabs, has drawn ire from Arab groups after the city failed to convince the operator to change its name this summer.

Convention Security Chases New Yorkers
Out of Town (Reuters)

Convention Security Chases New Yorkers
Out of Town (Reuters) 08/23/2004 12:46 PM
Reuters - Thousands of New Yorkers will work from home or leave the city to avoid next week's Republican convention and the tightest security in the history of U.S. political party gatherings.

New Fighting in Iraqi Town of Falluja,
Witnesses Say (Reuters)

New Fighting in Iraqi Town of Falluja,
Witnesses Say (Reuters) 04/28/2004 07:17 AM
Reuters - A new U.S. bombardment struck the same area of the besieged Iraqi city of Falluja on Wednesday which took an overnight pounding from the air, residents said.

Sicilian town battles "demonic" blazes
(Reuters)

Sicilian town battles "demonic" blazes
(Reuters) 02/11/2004 07:46 AM
Reuters - A Sicilian town is struggling to work out why dozens of household items from fridge-freezers to furniture keep mysteriously bursting into flame, terrifying locals and sparking theories of demonic intervention.

U.S. Launches Offensive in N.Iraqi Town,
17 Killed (Reuters)

U.S. Launches Offensive in N.Iraqi Town,
17 Killed (Reuters) 09/09/2004 03:38 AM
Reuters - The U.S. military launched an offensive on Thursday to drive insurgents out of the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, and doctors said 17 people were killed and 51 wounded in heavy fighting.

Locusts invade "Passion of Christ" town
(Reuters)

Locusts invade "Passion of Christ" town
(Reuters) 08/27/2004 02:00 PM
Reuters - It seemed like an invasion of Biblical proportions in the Italian town of Matera, the outdoor setting for Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of The Christ".

Witnesses: U.S. Bombs Iraqi Town of
Falluja (Reuters)

Witnesses: U.S. Bombs Iraqi Town of
Falluja (Reuters) 09/07/2004 02:15 PM
Reuters - U.S. warplanes launched airstrikes on Falluja Tuesday and insurgents fought American troops in the Iraqi town that has been a hotbed of resistance to Iraq's U.S.-backed government, witnesses said.

Town Battles 'Demonic' Mystery Blazes
(Reuters)

Town Battles 'Demonic' Mystery Blazes
(Reuters) 02/11/2004 11:02 AM
Reuters - A Sicilian town is struggling to work out why dozens of household items from fridge-freezers to furniture keep mysteriously bursting into flame, terrifying locals and sparking theories of demonic intervention.

U.S. Forces Under Fire in Iraqi Holy
Town (Reuters)

U.S. Forces Under Fire in Iraqi Holy
Town (Reuters) 05/02/2004 02:47 AM
Reuters - Suspected Shi'ite militiamen fired mortar bombs and grenades at U.S. forces in the holy town of Najaf in southern Iraq overnight, witnesses said Sunday.

Suspected Car Bomb Kills 3 in Iraqi Town
(Reuters)

Suspected Car Bomb Kills 3 in Iraqi Town
(Reuters) 07/15/2004 01:56 AM
Reuters - A suspected car bomb killed three Iraqi police and wounded nine other people Thursday when it exploded near the main police building in an Iraqi town northwest of the capital, a police official said.

Wild pigs rampage Bulgarian town
(Reuters)

Wild pigs rampage Bulgarian town
(Reuters) 04/15/2005 12:40 PM
Reuters - A herd of 50 wild pigs rampaged through a Bulgarian town on Friday, after high waters of the river Danube forced them out of a neighbouring Romanian island.

Circus Elephant Dung Leaves Town Fuming
(Reuters)

Circus Elephant Dung Leaves Town Fuming
(Reuters) 06/28/2004 09:38 AM
Reuters - A traveling circus in Germany has been ordered to come back and clean up a pile of elephant dung after residents complained about the smell, police said Friday.

Karaoke's Cinematic Offspring, Movieoke,
Hits Town (Reuters)

Karaoke's Cinematic Offspring, Movieoke,
Hits Town (Reuters) 02/13/2004 09:19 AM
Reuters - Frustrated actors have a new outlet for their creative urges that until now was only available to their singing cousins -- Movieoke, Karaoke's cinematic sibling.

Clark Wins Democrat Vote in New
Hampshire Town (Reuters)

Clark Wins Democrat Vote in New
Hampshire Town (Reuters) 01/27/2004 02:24 AM
Reuters - Wesley Clark captured eight of the 15 votes cast for Democrats in the first balloting of the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday in the northern hamlet of Dixville Notch, giving his candidacy a symbolic boost before the rest of the state goes to the polls.
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