A seven-year-old child who is suffering from a highly unusual form of Mowgli syndrome has been rescued by Russian care-workers, according to Telegraph.co.uk.  His mother never hurt him, just never talked to him; she fed him and cared for him like another of her pets.  And so he learned to talk with the many [...]

A hearse, and the mourner’s limo parked next to it, was booted in London, the East London Advertiser reports. (The hearse did not have a body in it at the time.) In the end, the tow company did let the offenders go without the 200 pound fee they originally demanded. The best [...]

A St. Alban’s radio station is capitalizing on V-day’s dark underbelly by giving away a free divorce, according to the Charleston Gazette.
Jay Nunley is the station’s program director and one of the key people responsible for the promotion. He said: “There is the lighter side of Valentine’s Day that’s all hearts and flowers. Then [...]

In Saudi Arabia, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has banned the color red until after Valentine’s Day, visiting flower and gift shops to stop the sale of items that could be construed as celebrating the non-Islamic holiday. The Saudi Gazette suggests Valentine’s Day is especially targeted since it [...]

USA TODAY has run a story on a new trend: having agility contests for cats. Unlike the way dogs are trained to obey, the cat agility contests rely on factors like cat-owner love and cat interest, creating a very different sort of fun. The article has a fabulous small gallery of pictures accompanying [...]

For those of you who have access to amateur telescopes, this is your chance to see the asteroid that could have hit Earth! According to the Near Earth Object Program:
“Asteroid 2007 TU24, discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on October 11, 2007 will closely approach the Earth to within 1.4 lunar distances (334,000 [...]

NASA has released images from its Spirit Rover which shows what appears to be a figure walking among the planet’s rocks. Looking at the image, it seems more likely that it’s just an odd rock, but surely a second picture would settle the matter of whether or not it’s moving. (I wonder how likely [...]

Apparently a cat managed to survive a trip in cargo on an airplane, only to go home with the wrong person. (The cat was returned and is fine, but the story is great.) My cats try to nose around in all my bags whenever I pack to go somewhere, but I’ve [...]

Interesting details coming out in the case of the tiger attack at the SF Zoo that resulted in the death of one young man and the tiger, and the wounding of two other young men. While it’s already been mentioned that the zoo had a wall that was four-feet shorter than it should have [...]

Several people in Stephenville, a small town in Texas, say they have seen an unidentified flying object in the skies over the past several weeks. Some reports even have the UFOs being chased by fighter jets, but both nearby air force bases deny having any aircraft in the area. It’s been a long [...]