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• Man takes double hit from wife (Reuters)

  Reuters - A New Zealand man is recovering from injuries after being run over by his wife -- twice, local media reported on Friday.

• Paying to pick seats loathsome, many passengers say (Reuters)

  Reuters - Paying for extras has become routine for airline passengers but it doesn't mean they like it, with a poll showing more than half all travelers hate having to fork out to choose their seat.

• Want to live like a cowboy? Try Wyoming (Reuters)

  Reuters - Whether you want to live like a rock star or a cowboy, or become an urban gardener or just opt for the simple life, there is a town in America to suit everyone's taste.

• Nurses' union: Care does not include sex (Reuters)

  Reuters - A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.

  
  

• The price you pay for being romantic... (Reuters)

  Reuters - A German woman, fearful that a burglar was trying to break into her second storey apartment, called police after she heard someone climbing up to her balcony shortly after midnight, police said Thursday.

• Japan's spouse hunters hone skills at marriage school (Reuters)

  Reuters - In search of Mr. or Mrs. Right, dozens of Japanese are attending a newly launched school in Tokyo that aims to turn them into marriage material.

• Old sea dog sets tongues wagging at Crufts (Reuters)

  Reuters - A 16th century dog, the only known female to have served aboard King Henry VIII's ill-fated flagship the Mary Rose, has stolen the show at Britain's Crufts dog show this year.

  
  

• New Zealander auctions "ghosts" in a bottle (Reuters)

  Reuters - A New Zealand woman sold two vials that she said contained the ghosts of an old man and a young girl for almost NZ$2,000 ($1,410) after a fiercely contested online auction, local media reported.

• Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying (Reuters)

  Reuters - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.

  
  

• "Dead" baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zoo (Reuters)

  Reuters - An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb.

  
  

• Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU (Reuters)

  Reuters - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.

  
  

• Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse (Reuters)

  Reuters - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday.

  
  

• Residents flee Angolan village invaded by elephants (Reuters)

  Reuters - Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most of its 4,000 residents to flee to neighboring Namibia, a local official said Tuesday.

• Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy (Reuters)

  Reuters - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds.

• U.S. blacks, Hispanics losing more sleep over worries (Reuters)

  Reuters - Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey released on Monday found.

• Canada drops plans for politically correct anthem (Reuters)

  Reuters - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral.

• Aussie underwear has gone bananas (Reuters)

  Reuters - Australian underwear company AussieBum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of men's underwear made with bananas.

• Hamas bans men from women's hair salons in Gaza (Reuters)

  Reuters - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women's hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders.

  
  

• Pilot with fake licence arrested at airport (Reuters)

  Reuters - A Swedish pilot with a fake commercial license was arrested in his cockpit at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as he prepared to fly 101 passengers on a Boeing 737 to Turkey, Dutch police said Wednesday.

• London stage fright: rats, mice and fleas: survey (Reuters)

  Reuters - Performers in London's West End are having to cope with a different kind of stage fright in the form of mice, rat and flea infestations in theatres, according to a new survey by actors' union Equity.