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Baby boy born on airliner en route to Australia

AP - Wed Aug 27, 10:01 PM ET

DARWIN, Australia - An Indian woman gave birth to a healthy boy aboard a jet airliner while flying to Australia to reunite with her husband.

  • A Christian holds a crucifix during prayer at Missionaries of Charity in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta on October 19, 2003. (Sucheta Das/Reuters)
    No nuns on catwalk, priest stops "beauty contest" Reuters - Tue Aug 26, 10:59 AM ET

    ROME (Reuters) - An Italian priest who had planned an online "pageant" for nuns has suspended the project, saying he was misinterpreted and had no intention of putting sisters on a beauty catwalk.

  • Players from the mixed division stand on stage during the medals presentation at the World Swamp Soccer championships in Hyrynsalmi in this July 20, 2008 file photo. (Bob Strong/Reuters)
    Ants bite, phones fly in Finnish summer bonanza Reuters - Tue Aug 26, 10:55 AM ET

    HELSINKI (Reuters) - They carry their wives, sit on ants, throw milking stools, boots and mobile phones -- here in the home of weird world championships, participants will do just about anything to win their offbeat crowns.

  • Park Sung-hyun of South Korea takes aim during her women's individual semi-final archery round against Kwon Un-sil of North Korea at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 14, 2008. (Ruben Sprich/Reuters)
    Cupid's arrow hits Olympic archers Reuters - Tue Aug 26, 10:52 AM ET

    SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's top male and female archers capped gold medal performances at the Beijing Olympics by announcing wedding plans just as the games ended, an archery official said on Tuesday.

  • Homebred beef cattle are seen at a local cattle market in Hongseong, about 170 km (106 miles) south of Seoul July 29, 2008. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)
    Deer, cattle have true animal magnetism Reuters - Tue Aug 26, 10:51 AM ET

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Grazing cattle and sleeping deer tend to align their bodies along the North-South axis of the Earth's magnetic field, European researchers said on Monday, giving new meaning to the phrase animal magnetism.

  • Team members from Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Forces head to U.S. navy transporter Harry Martin in the eastern sea of Oshima island, south of Tokyo bay, October 13, 2007. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
    Country ordered to pay damages for sailor's suicide Reuters - Mon Aug 25, 3:15 PM ET

    TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government will have to pay damages to the parents of a sailor who hanged himself after being repeatedly insulted by his superior, in the first such court ruling involving a civil servant, media said.

  • A participating car in the eco-friendly "Grease to Greece" rally makes its way to central Athens August 27, 2008. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis
    "Grease to Greece" racers cross Europe on cooking oil Reuters - Wed Aug 27, 3:05 PM ET

    ATHENS (Reuters) - Fuelled only by used cooking fat, eight teams completed a 2,500-mile car rally from London to Athens on Wednesday in a bid to promote awareness of cheap and environmentally-friendly bio-fuels.

  • Cambodian rat butcher Louch Savoun holds up a handful of the skinned rodents to a customer in the provincial town of Battambang, some 290 km northwest of Phnom Penh on February 19, 2004. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
    Rat meat in demand in Cambodia as inflation bites Reuters - Wed Aug 27, 2:44 AM ET

    PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday.

  • A police officer instructs workers during a training course for traffic wardens in Shanghai, March 9, 2004. REUTERS/China Photos
    Shanghai police to shame jaywalkers on TV Reuters - Wed Aug 27, 11:18 PM ET

    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai police will post photos and videos of jaywalkers in newspapers and on TV in a bid to shame them out of breaking traffic rules, local media reported on Thursday.

  • India's "Hari Puttar" caught in Harry Potter spell Reuters - Wed Aug 27, 9:04 AM ET

    MUMBAI, India (Reuters) - Hollywood's Warner Bros., which owns the rights to the Harry Potter movies, is suing an Indian production company whose new film is called "Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors," the studio said on Wednesday.

  • Fragments of the Dead Sea scrolls are placed under a camera during a demonstration at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem August 27, 2008. Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of thousands of fragments of the Dead Sea scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
    Dead Sea Scrolls to go digital on Internet Reuters - Wed Aug 27, 1:20 PM ET

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet.

  • In a photo provided Monday, Aug. 25, 2008, by Andrew and Fran Osiason, their 15-pound cockapoo named Pawlee is seen at their home in Wyckoff, N.J. The 8-month-old Pawlee surprised his family Sunday morning when he scared off a mother bear and her two cubs after they had strayed into his back yard. (AP Photo/courtesy of the Osiasons)
    Feisty puppy scares off 3 bears in NJ back yard AP - Mon Aug 25, 2:47 PM ET

    WYCKOFF, N.J. - If only Goldilocks had a cockapoo.

  • A king cobra eats a smaller snake in Ban Kok Sanga village, about 500 km (312 miles) from Bangkok on June 5, 2003. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang
    Mamba bite exposes illicit Tokyo snake collection Reuters - Wed Aug 27, 2:39 AM ET

    TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man living with 51 venomous snakes, including cobras and huge mambas, in his apartment in central Tokyo was caught when he called an ambulance after one of them bit him.

  • Raccoon's courthouse crime spree ends with capture AP - Mon Aug 25, 9:24 PM ET

    ATLANTA - The evidence in his office gave the judge pause: a half-eaten apple and some very distinctive footprints.

  • A nun kneels to pray during the funeral of slain Italian Roman Catholic priest Andrea Santoro at Saint John Basilica in Rome February 10, 2006. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi
    No nuns on catwalk as priest stops "beauty contest" Reuters - Tue Aug 26, 10:14 AM ET

    ROME (Reuters) - An Italian priest who had planned an online "pageant" for nuns has suspended the project, saying he was misinterpreted and had no intention of putting sisters on a beauty catwalk.

  • Boy, 12, accused of fleeing Texas police at 60 mph AP - Tue Aug 26, 8:07 PM ET

    CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 12-year-old boy took his grandmother's car and led police on a chase at speeds up to 60 mph before swerving to avoid spikes in the road and crashing into a fence, police said.

  • Cat survives being walled in for 7 weeks Reuters - Tue Aug 26, 12:58 PM ET

    BERLIN (Reuters) - A four-year-old cat in Germany called Bonny has survived after being walled in beneath a bathtub for seven weeks, its owner said on Tuesday.

  • No buyers for Wis. man's million-mile Chevy — yet AP - Tue Aug 26, 3:28 PM ET

    CATAWBA, Wis. - A 1991 Chevrolet Silverado that has traveled more than 1 million miles is still on the market, its owner says, though it failed to fetch the premium price that he had hoped for.

  • Dede demonstrates holding a pen during a news conference before leaving Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, west Java province, August 25, 2008. REUTERS/Stringer
    Indonesia's "tree man" comes home after treatment Reuters - Tue Aug 26, 3:59 AM ET

    JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian man dubbed the "tree man" because of gnarled growths on his body has returned from hospital after six kilograms (13 pounds) of warts were surgically removed from his body, a doctor said on Tuesday.

  • Jericho Scott, 9, warms up on the pitching mound in New Haven, Conn. Saturday Aug. 23, 2008. Officials with the Youth Baseball League of New Haven say they will disband Scott's team because his coach won't stop him from pitching. They say his hard throws may frighten other players in the baseball league for beginners. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey).
    9-year-old boy told he's too good to pitch AP - Mon Aug 25, 9:33 PM ET

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player — too good, it turns out.

  • Rhesus monkeys gather at Ohama park in Sakai, near Osaka, May 11, 2008. REUTERS/Kiyoshi Ota
    Study shows monkeys experience joy of giving Reuters - Tue Aug 26, 12:50 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Monkeys can experience the joy of giving in much the same way as humans do, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

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