BERLIN (Reuters) - A man in Germany fled his home half naked for cold, snow-swept streets to escape a mouse in his living room, authorities said on Thursday.
“He said there was nothing he was more afraid of,” police in Goettingen said in a statement.
After an emergency call in the early hours, officers in the [...]
MUENSTER, Germany - Petra the black swan has been reunited with her beloved swan-shaped paddleboat after a failed romance with a real bird.
Officials at a Muenster zoo where Petra has been spending the winter took her to a nearby lake Friday and released her next to the paddleboat — shaped like a giant white swan.
Petra [...]
Boston Red Sox pitcher Hideki Okajima is asked for his autographs from the outfield fence before the Major League Baseball regular season game between the Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, March 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Two teenage Bulgarian sisters have been rescued by Italian police from a circus in which one of them is said to have been forced to swim with piranhas.
Police say that while the 19-year-old sister had to swim in a transparent tank, the 16-year-old had snakes draped across her body and suffered bites.
Four members of the [...]
A man is reportedly pregnant with a baby girl.
US man Thomas Beatie and his wife were expecting their first child in July, US news service TransWorldNews reports.
Mr Beatie, from the state of Oregon, was born a woman but had a sex change in which he had chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy, but no change to [...]
ASHINGTON (AFP) - US researchers have identified all the 1,166 proteins in human saliva in a breakthrough which could become a new tool for diagnosing killer diseases like cancer, a study showed Tuesday.
Patients may soon be able to spit in a cup for tests for such illnesses as cancer, heart disease and diabetes thanks to [...]
