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Castro addresses audience in Caracas by cell phone (Reuters)
Reuters - When Cuba's Fidel Castro couldn't honour an invitation to join Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in a speech on Friday, Chavez called Castro on a cell phone from a packed Caracas theatre and broadcast the conversation through the microphone.

Woman, 84, wins $10 mln on slot machine (Reuters)
Reuters - An 84-year-old New Jersey woman won $10 million on a nickel slot machine in an Atlantic City casino in what the operator said Thursday was the largest prize in the city's gambling history.

England fans urged to chant in German (Reuters)

Reuters - England fans are being encouraged to learn the German versions of well known football chants before the World Cup.

Cat saves baby's life (Reuters)

Reuters - A cat saved the life of a newborn baby abandoned on the doorstep of a Cologne house in the middle of the night by meowing loudly until someone woke up, a police spokesman said Saturday.

That's a pretty big curse... (Reuters)

Reuters - Russian police are looking for two mystics who persuaded a student to part with more than $160,000 in exchange for lifting a curse, RIA news agency reported Sunday.

New male spending spree aims for beauty (Reuters)

Reuters - Makoto Ishitoko strutted, pirouetted and posed in a room surrounded by mirrors.

"Stuff Happens" play sears Rumsfeld (Reuters)

Reuters - A play that skewers U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as arrogant and war-mad has opened to a largely favourable welcome in New York this week, even as former generals turn against him in Washington.