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MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaragua's leftist President Daniel Ortega, a U.S. foe since the Cold War, said God was punishing the United States with the financial crisis for trying to impose its economic principles on poor countries.

LONDON (Reuters) - Great scenery and wildlife but financial situation in need of repair -- collect in person.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Culture fans thousands of miles from Beijing can now visit its famous Forbidden City, through a three dimensional recreation of the vast palace that also allows them to dress up as an imperial eunuch and meet a courtesan.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - How long will an unchained bicycle last on a city street before someone steals it?

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese authorities are hunting for a brazen masked criminal who robbed a district police station, state media reported on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is distantly related to the late Princess Diana and late U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, genealogy experts said on Wednesday.

KARALETI, Georgia (Reuters) - Two Russian soldiers almost missed their unit's withdrawal from Georgia on Wednesday after spending the night sobering up in a police cell, Georgian police said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The life stories of U.S. presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama hit comic book stands on Wednesday -- and the company behind the illustrated bios hopes plenty of adults will buy them.

LONDON (Reuters) - Police could one day predict the surname of male suspects or victims of crime from DNA alone, researchers said on Wednesday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - A bald, naked man who said he was a British tourist went swimming in the moat of Japan's Imperial Palace on Tuesday, climbing the palace wall, throwing rocks and splashing water at police before being taken into custody.

Virgin shark got pregnant in Virginia aquarium

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists using DNA testing have confirmed the second-known instance of "virgin birth" in a shark -- a female Atlantic blacktip shark named Tidbit that produced a baby without a male shark. The shark came to the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Centre in Virginia Beach not long after being born in the wild and lived there for eight years with no males of the same species, said Beth Firchau, the aquarium's curator of fishes.

HARARE (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean soccer player drowned in a crocodile infested river during a ritual to cleanse his team of bad spirits before a match, a state newspaper said on Tuesday.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan legislators wearing surgical masks and displaying banners with a skull and crossbones took over parliament's floor on Tuesday after the island's security chief accused China of starting the global SARS epidemic six years ago as part of a biological warfare campaign.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A huge cut-out of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim in a suburb just outside Kuala Lumpur has drawn fire as idolatrous and a waste of public funds, the Star newspaper reported on Tuesday.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Three skydivers made the first ever parachute jump over Mount Everest on Sunday, organisers and participants said, culminating years of preparation.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - The parents of a 7-year-old boy who broke into an Australian outback zoo and fed a string of small animals to its resident crocodile are likely to be sued after police said the boy was too young to be held responsible.