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Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 10:17 AM PDT
Today's Odd News - Reuters News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Sudan dreams big with new airports despite crashes Sacked for growing beards, Egyptian police demand jobs back Snakes in a parcel shut South African post office New James Bond film gets five-star Vatican blessing

Sudan dreams big with new airports despite crashes  Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 10:17 AM PDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) - After a Sudanese plane crashed at Khartoum's international airport last year, authorities didn't slow plans to build new airports and add more routes. They used the incident to shoot a video showing how safe flying in Sudan is, thanks to its skillful pilots. "Tower, the wheels are jammed. What shall I do?" the pilot says in the film, replaying for the cameras how he circled for an hour above Khartoum to empty his fuel talks while workers flooded the runway with foam. ... Full Story	Top
Sacked for growing beards, Egyptian police demand jobs back  Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 09:46 AM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Dozens of Egyptian policemen suspended from work in February for growing Islamic beards protested outside the Interior Ministry on Wednesday and called on President Mohamed Mursi to secure their reinstatement. The policemen had sought to challenge an unwritten rule that stopped members of the security forces from growing beards during the rule of President Hosni Mubarak, who used the police to crush Islamist groups he saw as enemies of the state. Mubarak was swept from power in February, 2011. ... Full Story	Top
Snakes in a parcel shut South African post office  Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 07:37 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Clerks at a South African post office fled for safety when they emptied a mail bag and a white python came slithering out. The one meter (yard) long non-venomous snake was one of four sent this week in an express parcel that arrived at the Sabie Post Office, about 300 km northeast (185 miles) of Johannesburg, postal officials said on Wednesday. Once the python hit the floor, sorting room employees were out the door, Sabie Branch Manager Mthobisi Duba said. "This was the most traumatic experience ever in the post office," Duba said in a statement. ... Full Story	Top
New James Bond film gets five-star Vatican blessing  Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 02:49 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - If anyone thinks the Vatican newspaper is still a staid broadsheet that publishes only religious news and harsh papal edicts, consider this: On Tuesday it ran not one but five articles about the new James Bond film. "Skyfall" gets a rave review in l'Osservatore Romano, which calls it one of the best of the 23 James Bond films made over the past 50 years. ... Full Story	Top

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