http://mobile.reuters.com Copyright 2008 Reuters en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:30:02 -0400 http://mobile.reuters.com/mobile/images/small/logo.png http://mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/Category/CODD?src=RSS-ODD http://mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/FullArticle/CODD/noddlyEnoughNews_uUSTRE5623GN20090703?src=RSS-ODD MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Friday they had foiled an Italian drug trafficker's plan to break out of jail in the Canary Islands using climbing equipment and a four-meter-long zeppelin. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:30:59 +0000 2009-07-03T173059Z_01_TRE56240T_RTROPTC_0_US-ESCAPE-odd.XML http://mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/FullArticle/CODD/noddlyEnoughNews_uUSTRE5623GD20090703?src=RSS-ODD ISTANBUL (Reuters) - What happens when you put a Muslim imam, a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists? 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Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:46:34 +0000 2009-06-30T204634Z_01_TRE55T724_RTROPTC_0_US-MURDER-odd.XML http://mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/FullArticle/CODD/noddlyEnoughNews_uUSTRE56047Z20090701?src=RSS-ODD BEIJING (Reuters) - What do Johnny Depp, Garfield, Paris Hilton and roast pork have in common? In China, the answer is that a new government-mandated Internet filter rates some pictures of all four of them as bad for your moral health. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:54:57 +0000 2009-07-01T165457Z_01_TRE560480_RTROPTC_0_US-INTERNET-FILTER-odd.XML http://mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/FullArticle/CODD/noddlyEnoughNews_uUSTRE55T4SR20090630?src=RSS-ODD BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia's president was evacuated from his official plane because of a telephone warning shortly before it was due to take off on Monday. 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