Google donates $11.5 million to fight modern slavery
(Reuters) ? Google Inc is donating $11.5 million (7.4 million pounds) in grants to fight modern slavery and its hold on 27 million people worldwide, the technology company said on Wednesday. The donation is believed to be one of the largest corporate initiatives ever to fight slavery.
Take off that tie to save energy, Chilean men told
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's government wants men in the South American country to take off their ties to help fight global warming, hoping the campaign will save on air conditioning as summer starts in the southern hemisphere. "Let's all take our ties off this summer to save energy," Economy Minister Pablo Longueira says in television spots airing around the country.
Heir-apparent's hair's apparent in North Korea capital
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean heir-apparent Kim Jong-un's slicked-back, high-sided haircut is a fashion hit in Pyongyang where young men are apparently queuing up for a similar cut. Kim, believed to be in his late 20s and known as the "Young General," is packaged to look like his late grandfather, the secretive state's founder, Kim Il-sung.
Kids won't eat veggies? Try rewards, a study says
(Reuters) - If your preschoolers turn up their noses at carrots or celery, a small reward like a sticker for taking even a taste may help get them to eat previously shunned foods, a UK study said. Though it might seem obvious that a reward could tempt young children to eat their vegetables, the idea is actually controversial, researchers wrote in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Chinese man arrested for hiring wedding strippers
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have arrested a man who hired two strippers to perform at his son's wedding after the performance was mobbed by villagers, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Zhang Cheng, from Xuzhou in eastern Jiangsu province, had originally wanted a band to play at the nuptials, but was then advised he could get performers whose show would have "special features," the Global Times said.
Take care selling the family silver, hard up Greeks told
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece published guidelines on Tuesday to protect its austerity-hit citizens from being ripped off by pawn shops buying their family gold and silver. The consumer protection agency issued the unusual notice as new pawn shops spring up across Athens to meet demand for instant cash in Greece's contracting economy. But crisis-hit families may be getting a poor deal from unscrupulous traders.
Italy winemaker sends literary message in the bottle
MILAN (Reuters) - Nowadays when people spend more and more time exploring the depths of cyber space or just watching TV, every effort counts to bring them back to the traditional pleasure of reading. A leading Italian book store chain Feltrinelli and wine-makers Santa Margherita from northern Italy decided six years ago to join forces to promote reading in their own way.
Croat's Christmas now comes with a million lights
GRABOVNICA, Croatia (Reuters) - Zlatko Salaj has come a long way from the bleak Christmases of his youth. The 67-year old former telecommunications engineer has turned his country estate in Grabovnica, central Croatia, into a festival of light and colour that attracts thousands of visitors every year.
Spectacular open goal miss goes viral in Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) - Greuther Fuerth midfielder Edgar Prib became an overnight household name in Germany when his spectacular miss in front of an open goal assured him a prominent spot in the year-end reviews. Prib, 21, looked set to score against Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany's second division on Monday after he raced clear in the 18th minute and chipped the ball over keeper Oka Nikolov.
Jewel of a gift in Kansas City area Salvation Army kettle
KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - Tossing a stone into a Salvation Army kettle at Christmas wouldn't be a nice thing to do. Unless it's a diamond, of course. Someone recently put a 3/4-carat diamond in a kettle outside a Walmart in Shawnee, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City. It was appraised Thursday at $2,000 (1,278 pounds).
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