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Thursday, January 24, 2013

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01/24/2013
Reuters Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the politics in between
"Disrespectful" IKEA ad touches nerve with Thai transsexuals
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai man and his girlfriend are shopping at a furniture store. She sees pillows on sale and gets excited, her feminine voice falls suddenly to a deep male-like tone.
Thousands of crocodiles on the loose after South Africa floods
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Some 15,000 crocodiles escaped from a South African reptile farm in flood waters this week and were on the loose in and around one of southern Africa's biggest rivers, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
Belgian trainee teachers fail in basic general knowledge
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A large number of Belgium's future secondary school teachers struggle with basic concepts of geography, politics and history, a study published on Wednesday has shown.
Smallest house in Brussels up for auction
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Cosy might be the best word to describe the smallest house in Brussels, which is about to go up for auction.
Berkshire Hathaway adds 5k race to sugar-filled weekend
(Reuters) - Warren Buffett, the famed investor and notorious lover of cheeseburgers and cherry-flavored sodas, a competitive runner?
Racy Victorian divorces online at genealogy website
LONDON (Reuters) - The original Mrs Robinson's diary and scandalous suggestions about a former heir to the British throne are all part of the latest ancestral revelations to go online.
Cheese fire causes traffic meltdown in Norway tunnel
OSLO (Reuters) - A truckload of burning cheese has closed a road tunnel in Arctic Norway for the last six days.
Rotten eggs stench reaches UK after French gas leak
PARIS (Reuters) - A cloud of harmless gas smelling of sweat and rotten eggs leaked out of a chemicals factory in northwest France and wafted across the English Channel as far as London on Tuesday.
Subway given sandwich course in measuring feet and inches down under
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The U.S. fast-food chain Subway got caught up in an online furor after an Australian teenager measured his "footlong" Subway sandwich and found that it was an inch short.
Library prank sends Armstrong books to fiction section
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A prank note in an Australian library declaring that disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong's books would be moved to the fiction section has gone viral on the Internet, with one commentator declaring: "Hell hath no fury like a librarian".
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