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Berlin Elephants Feast on Tasty Christmas Trees
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:59AM January 04, 2013 Comment
An elephant eats a Christmas tree at the Berlin Zoo at the launch of the annual feeding of Christmas trees in Berlin, Jan. 4, 2013.
Elephants at the Berlin Zoo finally got a chance to tuck into their Christmas dinner: A feast of donated pine trees.
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Mass. cops caught egging superior officer's home
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:26AM January 04, 2013 CommentNEWTON, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts police responding to reports of teenagers tossing eggs at a house last month got quite a surprise when they tracked down the suspects.
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British Zoos Start Annual Census
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A meerkat sits on a keeper's clipboard during a photo call for the annual stock take at London Zoo, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. More than 17,500 animals including birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians are counted in the annual stock take at the zoo.
LONDON (AP) — In a sea of flapping black and white flippers, Ricky is hard to miss: He's got spiky yellow feathers, a flamboyant character, and he's the only rockhopper among the dozens of penguins living in the London Zoo.
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Cat that spent a week in Mass. tree found
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:14AM January 03, 2013 CommentMARION, Mass. (AP) — A stray cat that spent at least a week stuck in a Massachusetts tree before plunging 80 feet to the ground and fleeing has been found, and all things considered, appears to be in good health.
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Royal Mail to issue 'Doctor Who' stamps
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:09PM January 02, 2013 CommentLONDON (AP) — The many characters in the science-fiction show "Doctor Who" will be zooming through time and space on the edge of letters in 2013.
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Twin Mothers in Ohio Give Birth the Same Day
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2013 in fireworks
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Aiden and Donavyn didn't wait until New Year's Day to come screaming into the world, but the circumstances of their births are still pretty special: The babies were born about two hours apart to Ohio mothers who are identical twins.
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Study: Space Radiation Could Cause Alzheimer's
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, carrying an X-37B experimental robotic space plane, lifts off from launch complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Scientists have found another possible hang-up to deep space travel.
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Pa. railroad calendar delivered 63 years late
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:29PM December 31, 2012 CommentSCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A northeastern Pennsylvania newspaper has just received a calendar to help ring in the new year — except the year is 1950.
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Vultures Pick at Visitors' Cars in Fla. Everglades
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Rain clouds begin to cover Coopertown in the Florida Everglades on Thursday, July 29, 2010.
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Visitors to parts of Everglades National Park are getting tarps and bungee cords to make their vehicles less delectable to vultures.
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Wis. couple says pet chicken alerted them to blaze
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:05PM December 28, 2012 CommentMILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin couple says clucks, not fire trucks, helped them escape a blaze at their home.
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Chinese Adults Now Legally Required to Visit Parents
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Chinese soldiers from the People's Liberation Army.
It's now unlawful to ignore overbearing parents in China.
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Good Samaritan finds ring on snowy Calif. highway
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:18PM December 27, 2012 CommentKINGVALE, Calif. (AP) — Finding a lost wedding ring along a snowy highway is hard enough. But a Good Samaritan in Northern California also has to track down the man it belongs to.
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Man gets DUI after driving on AA co-founder's lawn
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:46AM December 27, 2012 CommentDORSET, Vt. (AP) — Vermont State Police say a man faces a drunken driving charge after driving onto the lawn of a historic home once owned by the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Zombies, Cigarettes, and Will Rogers: The Year in Political Ads
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In an election cycle that saw billions spent on ads, we sift through the highlights, as well as the lowlights.
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Pony back with circus after Christmas kidnap
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:14AM December 27, 2012 CommentVIENNA (AP) — A tiny pony is back at its Austrian circus home more than a week after apparently being kidnapped by a woman who wanted to give her sick daughter a Christmas surprise.
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Minn. soda shop rebuked for stocking candy smokes
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:57PM December 26, 2012 CommentST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Owners of an old-school soda shop in St. Paul, Minn., are being warned to kick the habit and stop stocking novelty candy cigarettes.
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So. Calif. couple unlawfully wedded for 48 years
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:49PM December 23, 2012 CommentREDLANDS, Calif. (AP) — After spending nearly a half-century as husband and wife, Bob and Norma Clark are finally married.
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Asian toad stowaway gets new home in South Africa
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:56AM December 22, 2012 CommentJOHANNESBURG (AP) — They say cats have nine lives. Now a Chinese toad has joined that club of wily survivors.
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Video Compares Avoiding Fiscal Cliff to Scoring With a Girl or Guy
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:16PM December 21, 2012 CommentFrom the campaign that gave us former Sen. Alan Simpson going "Gangnam Style" comes another video on avoiding the fiscal cliff. Only this time, The Can Kicks Back has likened the prolonged negotiations in Washington to scoring with a girl or guy at a college party.
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Burrito Bomber Attacks Hunger With Drone-Delivered Mexican Food
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