Ageing Santa gets $100,000 facelift for Christmas (Reuters)
Fri Nov 20 16:04:18 GMT 2009

Reuters - A Santa in New Zealand with a droopy eye has received a NZ$100,000 ($74,000) face-lift in the run-up to Christmas so that his aging face does not scare children.

Gang accused of killing to sell human fat (Reuters)
Fri Nov 20 16:03:40 GMT 2009

Reuters - Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.

Diplomats arrested for cigarette smuggling (Reuters)
Fri Nov 20 16:04:53 GMT 2009

Reuters - Swedish police have arrested two North Korean diplomats on suspicion of smuggling 230,000 cigarettes into the Nordic country, the Swedish Customs Office said Friday.

New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles (Reuters)
Thu Nov 19 21:21:13 GMT 2009
Reuters - New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world

U.S. election, iPhone among decade's top 10 Internet moments (Reuters)
Thu Nov 19 21:20:20 GMT 2009

Reuters - The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards.