New York police guarding the United Nations during Pope Benedict's visit on Friday made a rare discovery and rescue -- of a beaver struggling to swim past the world body's headquarters.
Soon after the pope left the United Nations, police harbour and scuba units patrolling the East River spotted the four-foot (1.20 metre) long, 40-pound (18-kg) animal. Beavers have only recently returned to the city with the first sighting of one in more than 200 years made in February 2007.
Peter Griffiths
ReutersSat, 19 Apr 2008 12:01 UTC
Fortune-tellers, mediums and spiritual healers marched on the home of the British prime minister at Downing Street on Friday to protest against new laws they fear will lead to them being "persecuted and prosecuted".
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| Priests hold hands at an altar in Salem, Massachusetts
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Ely, Nevada - A dog that ran off during a road-trip rest stop in north-central Nevada apparently made its way nearly 80 miles across Nevada's high desert and two mountain ranges to return home to Ely a week later.
A Russian man trying to sleep off a night of after-work drinking failed to notice a six-inch (15-cm) knife in his back - until his wife woke him up.
The rare skeleton of a
Triceratops which roamed the plains of North America some 65 million years ago will go under the hammer at Christie's in Paris tonight, only the second dinosaur fossil of its size to be sold at auction.
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| Whoever buys the Triceratops will get the chance to name it
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Two disgruntled British Airways passengers have heaped more embarrassment on the airline by a posting a musical video mocking Terminal 5 on the internet.
Tim Soong turned to satire after BA managed to wreck his wedding plans by losing his luggage, leaving he and his best man, Andy Baynes, without their suits. His fiancée, Sokha Nhim, was also left minus her dress.
The 29-year-old decided to take revenge by filming a covert video in Terminal 5 after claiming the airline denied him compensation.
Comments by HBO's Bill Maher insulting the Pope and calling Catholicism a "cult" that promotes "organized pedophilia" have stirred resentment among many American Catholics upset he would say this the week before Pope Benedict XVI visits the United States.
A village school is to scrap its historic witch logo because of fears that it drives away pupils and teachers.
Warboys Community Primary School has used the emblem of a witch riding a broomstick for more than 60 years.
It marks the fact that the Cambridgeshire village was the last place in England to hang witches, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Three days after stealing a rare collection of coins, a thief in Germany took them to the bank for safe keeping -- and delivered them into the hands of the man he had robbed.
"I don't think the thief was expecting that," said a spokesman for police in the western city of Dortmund on Tuesday.
