Topic: NEWS english - on August 14, 2004 at 1:27:00 PM CEST
India's condoms pop up in the strangest places
Despite a population explosion and a growing AIDS problem, free condoms are being used in unusual ways, writes Rahul Bedi in New Delhi.
Millions of the condoms distributed free in India to combat AIDS and a soaring population are being used for other purposes such as waterproofing roofs, reinforcing roads and even polishing saris, say health workers.
In fact, only a quarter of the 1.5 billion condoms manufactured each year in India were being "properly utilised", said a report by doctors at King George's Medical University in Lucknow.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 14, 2004 at 1:15:00 PM CEST
Blazing Bunny Spreads Cricket Club Fire
A rabbit set alight by a bonfire at a British cricket club got its revenge when it ran burning into a hut and set it ablaze destroying costly equipment, the club said on Friday.
Members of Devizes cricket club in Wiltshire, western England, were burning dead branches when a rabbit caught up in the waste sped burning from the flames spreading a fire which destroyed lawnmowers and tools worth 60,000 pounds ($110,000).
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 13, 2004 at 11:25:00 AM CEST
Flowery carpet for Brussels
How to improve a city plaza where a wispy Gothic spire towers over exquisitely preserved medieval guild houses, a market square that writer Victor Hugo, a one-time resident, called Europe's most beautiful?
Belgians try to do it with flowers. For one weekend every two years, they carpet the Grand Place with about 800,000 begonia blossoms, creating intricate designs evoking images ranging from archangels to the gardens of Versailles.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 13, 2004 at 11:20:00 AM CEST
TV Nudeswomen to Reveal the Bare Facts
It aims to be, literally, the naked truth.
Starting nightly from Aug. 16, Get Lucky TV will broadcast via satellite to European audiences the daily news read by a series of nubile young women who will gradually -- but tastefully -- remove their clothes on camera.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 13, 2004 at 11:14:00 AM CEST
7th-graders back in lemonade business
Two seventh-grade girls really know a thing or two about turning lemons into lemonade. They were doing a booming business at their lemonade stand Wednesday - a day after a neighbor complained and the city Health Department temporarily put them out of business.
Mim Murray, 10, and Marisa Miller-Stockie, 12, of St. Louis, have sold lemonade together for three summers, hoping to save enough for laptop computers before school starts.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 10, 2004 at 11:32:00 AM CEST
Ever heard of Syndicate Dating?
Who Said Three's A Crowd?!
Beautiful garden, fresh air, a glass of bubbly and sunshine. A perfect evening to be spent with some good company and how does one find them? A new phenomenon called Syndicate Dating takes care of this. Yahoo! Personals recently introduced Syndicate Dating and Dating in the Park events in the United States.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 10, 2004 at 11:18:00 AM CEST
Ex-wife's dog bites man in wallet
A Canadian man who divorced his wife has been ordered by a judge to pay $A200 a month in doggie-alimony.
Four-year-old St Bernard, Crunchy, is munching his way through $A200 a month in food, health bills and general care, the National Post newspaper reported.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 10, 2004 at 11:12:00 AM CEST
Pipe that caused nuke accident wasn't inspected in 28 years
A ruptured pipe responsible for a nuclear power plant accident here that killed four people and left seven with burns had not been inspected for 28 years despite being an important part, it has been learned.
Even though the plant's operator, Kansai Electric Power Co. (KEPCO), was notified in November last year that the part needed to be inspected, it failed to implement safety measures ahead of tests scheduled for Aug. 14.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 10, 2004 at 11:05:00 AM CEST
Drunk lawyers delays hearing in Hong Kong court
A visibly drunk prosecutor who was giggling uncontrollably prompted a halt in a sentence hearing and later posed for journalists outside the courthouse as Auguste Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker," a newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 9, 2004 at 2:25:00 PM CEST
How Long Can YOU Sit in a Sauna?
A Finnish man and a Belarussian woman won a competition for sitting in a blisteringly hot sauna Sunday, with both nations keeping the world titles in the bizarre endurance test.
Leo Pusa, 56, a three times former champion took back the title won by a fellow Finn last year, spending almost 12 minutes in the 110 degrees Celsius (230 degrees Fahrenheit) heat.
Natalya Tryfanava from Belarus held onto the title she won last year in the women's contest, managing to stick it out for just over eight minutes.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 9, 2004 at 2:23:00 PM CEST
Five killed in Japan nuclear plant accident
Five people were today killed and seven others injured in an accident at a nuclear power facility in Japan.
The victims suffered severe burns after steam at a temperature of 200C escaped from machinery. Kansai Electric Power, which runs the plant, said a lack of cooling water had caused the accident, the Kyodon news agency reported.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 9, 2004 at 3:02:00 AM CEST
"Berühmtester Feuerwehrmann der Welt" Paul Adair tot
Im Alter von 89 Jahren ist in den USA der Feuerwehrmann und Firmengründer Paul "Red" Adair gestorben, der sich als Spezialist für unbezähmbare Brände einen Namen gemacht hatte. Wie seine Tochter Robyn Adair gestern mitteilte, starb ihr Vater in einem Krankenhaus in seiner texanischen Geburtsstadt Houston eines natürlichen Todes.
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