http://news.scotsman.com/NewsFront.aspx?SectionID=7724 Strange and unusual news stories. en-GB Copyright 2007, Johnston Press Plc jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk NS http://news.scotsman.com/GetFeed.aspx?sectionid=7724&format=rss Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:51:36 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://news.scotsman.com/template/group/images/rss/NS_rss.gif http://news.scotsman.com 281 70 http://news.scotsman.com/weirdoddandquirkystories/Now--Dundee-sees-the.5858556.jp CHRISTMAS is no longer cancelled in a Scottish city that dropped all references to Christianity from its winter festival. http://news.scotsman.com/weirdoddandquirkystories/Now--Dundee-sees-the.5858556.jp Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/weirdoddandquirkystories/Men-sentenced-to-hard-labour.5861218.jp TWO men who severely beating a pregnant crocodile at an Indian Islamic shrine have been jailed. http://news.scotsman.com/weirdoddandquirkystories/Men-sentenced-to-hard-labour.5861218.jp Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:41:34 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/weirdoddandquirkystories/Boars-to-return-to-the.5858725.jp THEY once foraged freely in Scotland's forests, but now, after an absence of hundreds of years, wild boar are to return to a Highland woodland to resume their key role in http://news.scotsman.com/weirdoddandquirkystories/Boars-to-return-to-the.5858725.jp Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/weirdoddandquirkystories/Russians-in-the-dark-on.5858703.jp RUSSIANS seem decidedly cool toward President Dmitry Medvedev's proposal to cut the number of time zones in the country from 11. http://news.scotsman.com/weirdoddandquirkystories/Russians-in-the-dark-on.5858703.jp Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/weirdoddandquirkystories/Swiss-Rocketman-unhurt-after-crash.5859119.jp A SWISS adventurer went down in the Atlantic yesterday while trying to fly from Morocco to Spain with a jet-powered wing strapped to his back. http://news.scotsman.com/weirdoddandquirkystories/Swiss-Rocketman-unhurt-after-crash.5859119.jp Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/weirdoddandquirkystories/Flying-the-flag-for-Tajik.5858715.jp THE impoverished former Soviet republic of Tajikistan made a bid yesterday to enter the Guinness Book of World Records with the world's longest flag. http://news.scotsman.com/weirdoddandquirkystories/Flying-the-flag-for-Tajik.5858715.jp Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT