Posted By: Janine Delacroix
Fri Nov 10, 6:54 PM ET
By Paul Majendie LEEDS, Nov 10 (Reuters Life!) - Leeds
Castle has gone to the dogs -- and visitors are lapping it up.
The fairytale castle set in the heart of the countryside ranks
as one of the country's Top 10 Heritage sites with 400,000
visitors a year.
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Manners maketh millionaires
LONDON (Reuters) - For international executives navigating
the minefield of corporate politics, help is at hand --
impeccable British manners can clinch that big deal. So says
etiquette expert Diana Mather who on Friday launched a weekend
house party at a Scottish castle for businessmen, academics and
diplomats eager to prove the 14th century proverb "Manners
Maketh Man."
"BlackBerry Thumb" sparks new form of hand massage
TORONTO (Reuters) - Sore thumbs after spending hours on a
hand-held e-mail device? Sounds like a case of "BlackBerry
Thumb" -- but help is at hand. The Hyatt hotel chain found so
many of their business travellers were complaining of hand and
arm discomfort that they have introduced a special "BlackBerry
Balm" hand massage at most of their North American spas.
In sin city Vegas, erotic dancers must keep distance
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A court has upheld a Las Vegas
city regulation barring erotic dancers from raunchy physical
contact with their customers, in a ruling that runs counter to
the gambling city's sinful reputation. Nevada's Supreme Court
on Thursday reversed two lower court rulings that found the
regulation improperly curtailed "expressive conduct" protected
by the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment.
Absentee Florida ballot sent with precious stamp
MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida voter may have unwittingly lost
hundreds of thousands of dollars by using an extremely rare
stamp to mail an absentee ballot in Tuesday's congressional
election, a government official said on Friday. The 1918
Inverted Jenny stamp, which takes its name from an image of a
biplane accidentally printed upside-down, turned up on Tuesday
night in Fort Lauderdale, where election officials were
inspecting ballots from parts of south Florida, Broward County
Commissioner John Rodstrom told Reuters.
Man registers "Yao Ming" sanitary pads
BEIJING (Reuters) - A man in southern China has applied to
register a line of women's sanitary products under the name of
Chinese basketball star Yao Ming, state media said on Friday.
"This kind of registration is obviously malicious," Xinhua news
agency quoted "Team Yao" spokesman Lu Hao, as saying. "It's
unbelievable that someone could do such a thing. It's just too
much."
Drunken elk terrorises Swedish schoolchildren
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A drunken elk is terrorising children
at a school in southern Sweden. "That could be the problem. We
could be dealing with a boozy elk," Jan Caiman, a police
officer in Molndal, told the national news agency TT.
Dancing eunuchs taxing red-faced Indian shopkeepers
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Dancing and singing eunuchs are
knocking on doors in the Indian city of Patna in a bid to
embarrass shopkeepers into paying their taxes. The new shock
strategy, in which sari-clad and heavily made up eunuchs
accompany officials on their rounds of crowded shopping areas
in a country notorious for tax evasion and non-payment, has
been declared a success.
Road atlas or satnav in race to the finish?
LONDON (Reuters) - In a battle between old-fashioned
brain-power and cutting-edge technology a popular satellite
navigation system was beaten by a passenger armed with a humble
road atlas in a test race by Which? The consumer magazine said
on Friday a road atlas, if combined with a decent human map
reader, was the most efficient and reliable way of getting from
A to B.
Kiss, cook, dance for Guinness World Records Day
LONDON (Reuters) - Parisians bid for the world's biggest
kiss-a-thon, Italians cooked the longest line of pizzas and
Canadians are re-enacting Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video en
masse. It was "Guinness World Records" day on Thursday, a
chance for the weird and wacky to win a place in the compendium
of craziness.
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