Affairs at the Jupiter hotel

(Reuters) – CKX Inc, which owns the rights to the popular “American Idol” television show, said it has received a takeover offer from an investor group led by Simon Fuller, a creator of the popular singing contest. Read the whole article at Reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) – Russia launched its first Cyrillic Web addresses on Tuesday as part of a global move by the Internet’s administrators to boost access for users of non-Latin scripts. Read the whole article at Reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) – The head of Germany’s 25 million Protestants resigned on Wednesday after police stopped her for driving while under the influence of alcohol just four months after becoming the third woman to head a major Christian Church. Read the whole article at Reuters

SYDNEY (Reuters) – A tin of cat food may be the solution to reducing the number of toxic cane toads in Australia, one of the country’s major pests which environmentalists have tried for years to stop from killing off the native wildlife. Read the whole article at Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) – British church leaders are encouraging people to give up their iPods for Lent, instead of more traditional vices such as chocolate, to help save the planet. Read the whole article at Reuters

Motel 6; Ford Fusion Hybrid; Swiss International Air Lines First-Class Suite; Derek Lam, New York City; Juvet Landscape Hotel, Norway; and the Nokia N900 Mobile Computer are among the 16 winners* of Travel + Leisure’s sixth annual Design Awards announced today and featured in the March issue of the magazine, available on newsstands February 19. [...]

BEIJING (Reuters) – A proposal to jail people who eat dog meat for up 15 days has caused controversy in China, where dog hot pot is traditionally popular. Read the whole article at Reuters