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| Not a vulture but a drone: South Africa police detain cameraman Friday, Jun 28, 2013 12:08 PM PDT  PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African police on Friday detained the owner of a radio-controlled helicopter drone carrying a camera that was filming scenes around the Pretoria hospital where ailing anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is being treated. F.C. Hamman, a South African freelance film-maker, was escorted away by police along with the helicopter camera he was flying with his 21-year-old son Timothy outside the clinic where Mandela, 94, has spent three weeks with a lung infection. After nearly four hours of questioning by police, Hamman was released but the drone camera was confiscated. ... Full Story | Top |
| Two bronze animal heads, stolen 153 years ago, returned to China Friday, Jun 28, 2013 08:23 AM PDT  By Terril Yue Jones BEIJING (Reuters) - The family of a French billionaire and art collector eased a sore point in history on Friday by returning two bronze animal heads, among Chinese treasures pillaged from a Beijing palace by French and British troops more than a century and a half ago. The sculptures, of a rabbit and a rat, are among 12 animal heads representing the Chinese zodiac that were looted from Beijing's Old Summer Palace in 1860 by Anglo-French troops during the Second Opium War. ... Full Story | Top |
| Singapore 'Hello Kitty' fanciers bare claws in quest for toy Friday, Jun 28, 2013 01:49 AM PDT By Eveline Danubrata SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore residents braved hazardous air, bid hundreds of dollars and queued for hours to lay their hands on a special Hello Kitty stuffed toy, swept up in a craze for the mouthless Japanese cat that peaked this week in the city-state. The frenzy began at the end of May, when U.S. fast food giant McDonald's began selling the toys in outfits inspired by fairy tales, such as "The Ugly Duckling". The six toys were released in phases, at S$4.60 ($3.63) each with a meal, or S$10 on their own. ... Full Story | Top |
| Japan PM Abe hops and flips in voter-wooing game app Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 10:33 PM PDT  TOKYO (Reuters) - It's a bird, it's a plane ... It's a cartoon version of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, hopping and somersaulting his way through the sky in a smartphone game app his party hopes will lure young voters ahead of a July 21 election. A growing number of Japanese politicians are venturing into the cyber world after a legal change allowed the use of social media in campaigns, setting up Facebook pages and twitter accounts to woo voters before a July upper house election. ... Full Story | Top |
| San Diego protester faces vandalism charges for sidewalk chalk drawings Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 08:27 PM PDT By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A protester is standing trial on criminal vandalism charges in San Diego, and faces a sentence of up to 13 years in prison if convicted, for a scribbling a series of anti-bank slogans in chalk on a city sidewalk. Mayor Bob Filner has denounced the prosecution of Jeff Olson, 40, a man with no previous criminal record, as a waste of taxpayer money and an abuse of power that infringes on First Amendment free speech protections in the U.S. Constitution. ... Full Story | Top |
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