A bat that apparently had trouble flying instead tried to hitch a ride on the space shuttle Discovery, NASA officials said.

BERLIN (AFP) - German customs officials inspecting a Swiss car got a nasty shock when they discovered 164 large spiders and 45 boxes of cockroaches -- the arachnids' food for the journey, a spokesman said Monday.

Named after Count Dracula, it is the only one of its kind to have bones which project through the skin, looking like real teeth. Scientists have described its features as "extraordinary" and believe it is one of the most interesting vertebrates to be iden

MADRID (AFP) - Three disabled athletes from Spain have reached the South Pole unassisted by animals or machines, in what a Spanish newspaper said Sunday was a world first.

JERUSALEM (AFP) - A 14-year-old girl has become Israel's youngest divorcee after splitting from her 17-year-old husband under pressure from the boy's parents, newspaper reports said on Thursday.

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In a gory incident, a civet cat was found trapped in the lift of the state legislative assembly as the House opened for the budget session on Tuesday. The animal was later rescued by Patna zoo employees. "It is badly injured with all its four legs

AUSTRALIA. An alleged bird smuggler had his feathers ruffled when airport customs officers seized two live pigeons stuffed into his tights.

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