India Breaking News: Reuters Oddly Enough: August 20, 2015

Click to View in Browser

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Santa goes bust over Finnish tax bill

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's Santa Claus Office has been declared bankrupt over unpaid taxes after a sharp drop in visits from recession-hit Russians, once the center's best customers.

The flying marshal: North Korea builds private runways for plane-loving Kim

SEOUL (Reuters) - His father was afraid to fly, but North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has taken to the skies, building a series of small runways long enough to land light, private aircraft next to some of his palaces, satellite imagery shows.

'Silence of the Lambs' house, sans dungeon, for sale in Pennsylvania

(Reuters) - A Pennsylvania house that portrayed the lair of a serial killer who raises insects and makes a suit out of human skin in the thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" just hit the market.

Man charged with trying to halt departing plane at Denver airport

DENVER (Reuters) - A 58-year-old man who arrived late for a flight to attend his high school reunion is accused of running onto a concourse at Denver International Airport in an attempt to stop the departing plane, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Ireland scraps heritage certificates presented to Tom Cruise, Obama

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's call to its 70-million-strong diaspora to make a show of their ancestry at up to 120 euros ($132) each went largely unanswered and the government as a result scrapped its "Certificate of Irish Heritage scheme" this week.

Colorado cops rescue bear cub with head stuck in tub

DENVER (Reuters) - Police in Colorado rescued a bear cub whose head was stuck in a large plastic tub of protein powder, giving the cub a ride in the back of a cruiser before tranquilizing her so she could be freed.

California man seeks to legalize pet ferrets - even though they bite

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Pat Wright loves his three ferrets - even though they do sometimes bite and he's had to replace the baseboards in part of his house after they urinated for years along the walls - and he really wants them to become legalized as pets in California.

Seattle police pull over speeding car, help deliver baby

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle police witnessed the "miracle of childbirth" when a patrolman pulled over a speeding car en route to an area hospital, and ended up helping a woman in labor deliver her baby girl, police said on Monday.

Man in bear costume harasses grizzlies in Alaska, motive unclear

(Reuters) - A man in a full-body bear costume approached a grizzly and her two cubs in front of shocked spectators by a river in Alaska, before a state Fish and Game worker scared away the animals to stop anyone being hurt, an official said on Friday.

Man who flushed fake poker chips down toilet pleads guilty

A North Carolina man pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges he brought counterfeit chips to an Atlantic City, New Jersey poker tournament in a scheme discovered after he flushed $2.7 million of the chips down a toilet in his hotel room.