Thursday, August 24, 2006

Pregnant Spears ad too "stimulating" for metro (Reuters)

Hi Folks !!

Here's my selection of news items for today. I hope you find them interesting :)
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Reuters - Tokyo's subway has refused permission for an advertising poster featuring a nude and heavily pregnant Britney Spears, branding it "too stimulating" for young people.



Source: news.yahoo.com

Robber mistakes town hall for a bank (Reuters)

An Austrian village in an undated photo. A would-be robber was arrested after he tried to hold up his local town hall, mistaking it for a bank, Austrian police said Wednesday. REUTERS/Austrian Tourism Board/HandoutReuters - A would-be robber was arrested after he tried to hold up his local town hall, mistaking it for a bank, Austrian police said Wednesday.



Source: news.yahoo.com

Sen. Obama seen as inspiration in Kenya (AP)

U.S. Senator, Barack Obama, left, visits a memorial with Antoinette Sitole, the sister of the late Hector Pieterson, at the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006. The museum commemorates the site where Pieterson was gunned down by police thirty years ago at the start of the Soweto student uprising. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)AP - Barack Obama may have only landed Thursday for his latest visit to his father's homeland, but the U.S. senator is already become the country's most prominent "citizen."



Source: news.yahoo.com

NY's oldest bartender still mixing martinis at 90 (Reuters)
Reuters - A man who mixed martinis for Marilyn Monroe and poured Scotch for John Lennon was feted as New York's oldest bartender when he turned 90 this week, and he vowed to keep working.
Source: news.yahoo.com

posted by Don @ Thursday, August 24, 2006

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