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Rujira Mahaprom, a specialist at Save Wildlife Thailand, said monitor lizards can often be found around water. One may have entered the pump looking for a place or hide. The animals find easy passage in Bangkok’s extensive water-drainage network. “It’s no easy task preventing

SCHUPBACH, Germany (AP) — Stephanie Kirchner’s journey to work has got longer but, she says, cheaper: she has left her SUV at home and switched to real horse power. The stud farm owner and horse trainer says she decided “it can’t go on like this” after fuel prices jumped

The dentures that were worth nearly $2,000 had the name Randy Williams engrained on them.

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — She has four limbs, expressive eyes and likes to stroll through greenery in New York City. Happy, by species, is an Asian elephant. But is she also a person? That’s the question before New York’s highest court Wednesday in a

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — A small brewery in Finland has launched a NATO-themed beer to mark the Nordic country’s bid to join the Western military alliance. Olaf Brewing’s OTAN lager features a blue label with a cartoon version of a beer-drinking medieval

Pepsi infused pepperoni pizza!  Rollouts for this new pizza is Friday in Lower Manhattan while supplies last from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

A pair of Southwest Florida ‘vloggers’ driving down Interstate 75 captured a golf practice gone wrong on the side of the road. Jose and Katherine Rodriguez live in Fort Myers but travel around the country documenting the everyday for their YouTube channel.

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The money was supposed to be COVID-19 assistance for low-income households in a small Japanese town, but police say it was mistakenly wired to a bank account of a resident who refused to return it and spent most of it on online gambling. Police

BERLIN (AP) — What a cat-astrophe! Authorities in the southwest German town of Walldorf have ordered some cat owners to keep their pets indoors until the end of August to protect a rare bird during its breeding season. The decree is designed to help save the crested lark which makes its nest on