PROTESTERS have vowed to become human shields to stop the slaughter of hundreds of kangaroos at an Australian military base.

Dog stranded in desert for 4 months gets rescued by train conductor. All aboard for I've-got-something-in-my-eye-ville.

The smiling children giggled as they patted the young goat on its head and tickled it behind the ears. It could have been a happy scene from a family zoo anywhere in the world but for what happened next.

The process - known as "promession" - could be the answer to the dwindling amount of space in Britain's cemeteries as well as being more environmentally friendly than cremation, say campaigners.

As the Backlash Against Plastic Bottles Hits Its Stride, Water Marketers Are Fighting to Protect Their $16 Billion Business

DALLAS, Texas -- The Boy Scouts of America said Thursday that a painted, plastic badge commonly worn by some of its youngest scouts is being voluntarily recalled after a test revealed high levels of lead in the paint.

Even though it's shaping up to be the "anti-China Christmas," your kid's stocking likely will be stuffed with Chinese-made toys -- unless you put oranges in it. That's because 80% of all toys sold in the USA are made in China.

After allegedly ripping off the head a duck in the indoor pond of the Embassy Suites hotel, Scott D. Clark asked police if he was in trouble. Yes, they said. "Why?" he asked, "Because I killed it out of season? Big deal, it's just a ... duck."

I receive a bill from the hospital claiming that BCBS had denied all charges. I called the hospital and told them that BCBS opened a case about this, I kid you not, the billing clerk started laughing, and stated, "Good luck with that!"

Up to 70 percent of first responders are ill as a result of 9/11 contamination. If a similar rate of illness holds true for those who lived and worked near the Twin Towers, the number of seriously ill New Yorkers could climb to 300,000 in the near future.