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Today's Odd News - Reuters News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Tennessee musician becomes first to paddleboard to U.S. from Cuba Istanbul's last White Russians pray for church's survival Hunting in Harare: Zimbabwe's elusive voters' roll It's no ordinary dog's life at Vienna's Hotel Sacher

Tennessee musician becomes first to paddleboard to U.S. from Cuba  Friday, Aug 02, 2013 05:14 PM PDT By Michael Haskins KEY WEST, Florida (Reuters) - A Tennessee musician on Friday became the first paddleboarder to cross the Florida Straits between Cuba and the United States, making the 110 mile journey in 28 hours as his father watched from a support boat. Ben Friberg, 35, arrived in Key West dehydrated and exhausted but otherwise in good shape. Before leaving Cuba on Thursday, Friberg said he was "doing this to promote peace and understanding between Cuba and the United States and to promote a healthy lifestyle. ... Full Story	Top
Istanbul's last White Russians pray for church's survival  Friday, Aug 02, 2013 12:17 PM PDT By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - About 25 Russian Orthodox celebrated a divine liturgy on Friday for the first time in four decades at their rooftop church they fear may be demolished to make way for a tourism project. A choir chanted hymns and women wearing scarves bowed their heads at the crumbling 134-year-old St Elijah Church as they marked the prophet's name day according to the Julian calendar. Istanbul's tiny White Russian community, whose families fled here in the 1920s after losing to the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War, worries that St. ... Full Story	Top
Hunting in Harare: Zimbabwe's elusive voters' roll  Friday, Aug 02, 2013 10:32 AM PDT By Ed Cropley HARARE (Reuters) - It is a list of 6.4 million names and addresses printed on A3 paper and compiled in no fewer than 1,958 binders weighing well over two tons. Or it can be reduced to a slim CD. Finding, in any format, the Zimbabwean voters' roll, the document at the center of a disputed landslide election victory claimed by President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, is not easy. ... Full Story	Top
It's no ordinary dog's life at Vienna's Hotel Sacher  Friday, Aug 02, 2013 08:08 AM PDT By Georgina Prodhan VIENNA (Reuters) - Many people believe the Austrian capital Vienna is friendlier to dogs than it is to children, and a new service from the city's renowned Hotel Sacher seems to bear that out. As of last week, hotel guests who cannot bear to leave their four-legged friends at home can book into rooms at the Sacher that have been newly kitted out especially for dogs, with baskets, doggy blankets, feeding bowls, muzzles and leads. Dogs play a central role in the lore of the 19th century hotel. ... Full Story	Top

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