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Bomb hoax delays cruise ship off Florida |
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Monday, 29 March 2010 12:21 |
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MIAMI (Reuters) - A Carnival cruise ship was held off the Florida coast for several hours on Sunday while authorities searched the vessel and arrested a drunk passenger on bomb hoax charges, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
No explosives or hazardous materials were found and the ship, the Carnival Sensation, was allowed to dock at Port Canaveral on Florida's Atlantic coast Sunday morning, Coast Guard petty Officer 1st Class Christopher Evanson said.
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Man detained over poisoned dumplings |
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Monday, 29 March 2010 12:20 |
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has detained a man suspected of poisoning frozen dumplings that were exported to Japan two years ago, sickening 10 people and causing tension between China and Japan.
The suspect, Lu Yueting, 36, put a poisonous substance in the frozen dumplings when he worked at a food plant based in China's Hebei province, state media reported late on Friday quoting the Ministry of Public Security.
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Theme park highlights challenges facing dwarfs |
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Friday, 26 March 2010 12:10 |
 By Maxim Duncan
KUNMING, China (Reuters) - Sitting in a valley in southwest China sits an unlikely and controversial theme park -- the Little People's Kingdom of dwarfs.
Here, dwarfs perform in fairytale costumes for tourists, drawing both curious crowds and a fair share of criticism.
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Crocheting beats the Reich for odd title prize |
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Friday, 26 March 2010 12:10 |
 LONDON (Reuters) - Defying grim predictions that the economic downturn would clobber specialist books, the annual contest for oddest title has had a bumper year, with the 2009 winner being named on Friday as "Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes."
The book won 42 percent of the vote run by TheBookseller.com to emerge a comfortable winner.
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Film breaks new ground on sex in India |
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:33 |
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By Shilpa Jamkhandikar
MUMBAI (Reuters) - A new Bollywood film has put the spotlight on changing sexual mores in small-town India, unsettling conservative filmgoers with spy cam footage and pushing the limits of the country's censorship board.
"Love Sex aur Dhokha" (Love Sex and Betrayal) is the latest in a series of avant-garde offerings stripping the Indian film industry of decades of inhibition and dramatically changing the traditional formula of song-and-dance romances and violent revenge sagas.
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