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Good afternoon Postlinuxeg, MON 11 Jan 2010 
 
Bookie refuses to pay out $11 million on snow bet
Hockey men fined over a beer and a hug
Speeding motorist fined $290,000
Residents may be evicted for spitting
Bookstore adds wine to its catalogue
Girl beats boys to pluck cross from water
Fur flies over picture of Michelle Obama in ad
Snowed-In Brits boost adultery website
Airline pickpocket strikes as passengers sleep
Zuma's wives will not vie for "first lady" status


Bookie refuses to pay out $11 million on snow bet
January 08, 2010 01:38 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Bookmaker Ladbrokes is refusing to pay out more than 7 million pounds ($11 million) to a man who gambled on a white Christmas across the UK, as the bet was accepted by mistake.

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Hockey men fined over a beer and a hug
January 08, 2010 02:44 PM ET
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's parliament fined a national hockey player and two team officials for un-Islamic behavior after pictures circulated of them hugging a woman and apparently drinking alcohol in Argentina last month.

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Speeding motorist fined $290,000
January 07, 2010 12:21 PM ET
ZURICH (Reuters) - A millionaire motorist clocked up a record fine of 299,000 Swiss francs ($290,000) after Swiss police caught him racing through a village at 100 km per hour in his red Ferrari Testarossa, Swiss media reported on Thursday.

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Residents may be evicted for spitting
January 07, 2010 12:23 PM ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese people who live in government-sponsored housing in a prosperous southern province may be evicted if caught repeatedly spitting in public, according to a draft plan.

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Bookstore adds wine to its catalogue
January 07, 2010 12:22 PM ET
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian bibliophiles have been offered a chance to combine their love of literature with their fondness for a quiet drink, with a boutique bookchain in Sydney adding wine to its shelves.

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Girl beats boys to pluck cross from water
January 07, 2010 12:18 PM ET
TIRANA (Reuters) - A 16-year-old Albanian girl broke with tradition by retrieving a cross from the bottom of a wintry Ionian Sea ahead of a dozen boys and men diving for it as part of a male-only Orthodox ceremony.

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Fur flies over picture of Michelle Obama in ad
January 07, 2010 12:17 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Animal rights group PETA has used the image of Michelle Obama without her consent on a new poster that praises the U.S. first lady for not wearing fur, the White House said on Wednesday.

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Snowed-In Brits boost adultery website
January 06, 2010 02:09 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Britons snowed in by the wintry weather have been flocking to an extra-marital dating site in the last 24 hours.

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Airline pickpocket strikes as passengers sleep
January 06, 2010 02:07 PM ET
PARIS (Reuters) - French police are investigating whether a pickpocket stole thousands of euros from passengers as they slept on an Air France flight from Tokyo to Paris.

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Zuma's wives will not vie for "first lady" status
January 06, 2010 02:06 PM ET
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The three wives of South African President Jacob Zuma will not vie for the position of "First Lady" because the constitution makes no provision for the title, his office said on Wednesday.

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