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What does your baby's name mean?
LONDON - A London-based translation firm is offering parents-to-be the chance to check the meaning of prospective baby names in other languages to avoid inadvertently causing their offspring future embarrassment.
Reuters 11/18/2009 4:02 PM
Prostitutes on display at venerable London gallery
LONDON – The National Gallery in London, one of the world's great public collections, has put on display a seedy reconstruction of Amsterdam's Red Light District in a rare foray into contemporary installation art.
Reuters 11/18/2009 6:52 AM
Duque has new scare tactic vs firecracker use
MANILA - If you don't want your fingers chopped off, then lay off firecrackers this holiday season.
by Kristine Servando, abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak 11/17/2009 11:00 PM
Spend one night as a hamster at French hotel
NANTES - It's a unique concept according to its creators, a hotel in the French town of Nantes is offering the chance for people to become a hamster.
Reuters 11/17/2009 8:21 PM
Mommy Dionisia gets flak for 'Negro' comment
MANILA - A civil rights group has chided Dionisia Pacquiao, mother of famed Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, for using the word "Negro" in a public statement.
abs-cbnNEWS.com 11/17/2009 7:33 PM
Poll exec: 'To be moral is not old-fashioned'
Gays are already 'over-represented' in the House
MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) stands firm on its decision to deny a gay organization accreditation for the party list, even after the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) sided with the incensed members of the “third sex.”
by Rey Santos Jr., Newsbreak 11/16/2009 11:42 PM
Scientist reveals stint as high-class prostitute
LOS ANGELES - A former prostitute whose memoirs were turned into the TV series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" has revealed her true identity -- Brooke Magnanti, a British research scientist.
Reuters 11/16/2009 11:25 PM
Jeepney driver is RP's 1st hotdog-eating champ
MANILA - A day before Manny Pacquiao made history with his 7th boxing title, a jeepney driver in Pasay City made a record of his own as the country's first hotdog-eating contest champion.
by Kristine Servando, abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak. 11/16/2009 9:34 PM