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| Florida man feared dead after sinkhole swallows him Friday, Mar 01, 2013 05:54 PM PST  SEFFNER, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida man was missing and feared dead on Friday after a large sinkhole suddenly engulfed the bedroom of his suburban Tampa home, police and fire officials said. Jeff Bush, 36, was in his room sleeping and the other five members of the household were getting ready for bed on Thursday night when they heard a loud crash and Jeff screaming. Jeff's brother, 35-year-old Jeremy Bush, jumped into the hole and furiously kept digging to find his brother. "I feel in my heart he didn't make it," Jeremy told Tampa TV station WFTS. ... Full Story | Top |
| "Slanderous" new calypso songs banned from Guyana's airwaves Friday, Mar 01, 2013 02:36 PM PST GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - Calypso lyrics decrying corruption and excess have so irked Guyana's government that new songs from the popular Caribbean music genre have been banned from state airwaves. Calypso music has long been a proud and central feature of life in Guyana, a laid-back former British colony of just 750,000 people on the northeast shoulder of South America. But the politically spicy lyrics of some recent songs have been too much for the government. ... Full Story | Top |
| Lionheart's heart smelled sweet for heaven, scientists find Friday, Mar 01, 2013 02:09 PM PST VERSAILLES, France (Reuters) - The heart of the Lionheart was embalmed with daisy, myrtle, mint and frankincense, kept sweet-smelling in saintly fashion in hope of speeding King Richard of England's ascent to heaven. French scientists have analyzed the organ, kept at Rouen Cathedral since the death of Richard I, known as The Lionheart; they found it was wrapped in linen, treated with mercury, herbs and reverence, and that it held pollen confirming records of his death from a war wound in the spring of 1199, in central France. ... Full Story | Top |
| FAA looking into safety of sky-high Harlem Shake dance Friday, Mar 01, 2013 11:06 AM PST  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A sky-high video of the Internet dance craze Harlem Shake that went viral on YouTube has captured the attention of aviation officials who said on Friday they are looking into the event over safety concerns. In the video called, "Harlem Shake Frontier Flight 157," members of the ultimate Frisbee team from Colorado College and other passengers are shown frenetically dancing in the aisle and in front of seats last month on the packed Frontier Airlines flight from Colorado Springs to San Diego, California. ... Full Story | Top |
| Britain's government sells French wine to pay its drinks bill Friday, Mar 01, 2013 06:07 AM PST LONDON (Reuters) - The government is selling vintage French wine at around 5,000 pounds a bottle in a bid to make its wine cellar self-funding as part of a national austerity drive and clamp-down on extravagant expenditure. The government wine cellar, located in the basement of Lancaster House near Buckingham Palace, is used to provide wine for foreign VIP guests ranging from royalty to heads of state and prime ministers at 200 or more events a year. The cellar contains 38,090 bottles of wine and spirits with an estimated market value of 2.95 million pounds ($4. ... Full Story | Top |
| Waiter! There's a giraffe in my kudu Friday, Mar 01, 2013 04:34 AM PST JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Only three days after being told their hamburgers may in fact be donkey or water buffalo, South African meat lovers have been dealt another blow: biltong, the fabled dried-meat snack, may not be as "wild" as many packets suggest. Acting on a hunch - and four years before Europe's horse meat scandal broke - researchers at the University of the Western Cape tested 146 biltong samples from major retailers and small butchers from across South Africa. ... Full Story | Top |
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