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Seenlada Supat has been performing weekly concerts at Khao Kheow Open Zoo, southeast of Bangkok, to keep the animals company while visitation is low because of COVID-19 outbreaks.

  The unwelcome visitor didn’t expect the teen to put up a fight.

NEW LONDON, N.H. (AP) — Some people are greeted by the family dog. For Todd Westward, of New Hampshire, it’s a ruffed grouse. The bird started hanging out in the backyard last month with Westward while his family was away on a trip. Since then, the bird,  named Walter, has made himself a

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A judge has rejected the “stand your ground” defense of a Florida man who said he beat an iguana to death only after it attacked him. A Palm Beach County judge says 43-year-old PJ Nilaja Patterson must stand trial on a felony animal cruelty charge.

By JAY REEVES Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — A Confederate monument that was stolen and became the object of an odd ransom scheme is back in an Alabama cemetery where it once stood. But who took the chair is still in dispute. A Louisiana man charged in the odd disappearance of the

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s oldest-ever man has included eating chicken brains among his secrets to living more than 111 years. Retired cattle rancher Dexter Kruger on Monday marked 124 days since he turned 111, a day older than World War I veteran Jack Lockett was when he died

BERLIN (AP) — Staff at a logistics company in Germany threw cocaine with a street value of up to $1.2 million in the trash, not realizing that the packages they’d found inside banana crates were drugs. German customs officials said Tuesday that a fruit logistics company near Munich called

SOUTHWICK, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman who accidentally tossed out a $1 million lottery ticket eventually collected her winnings thanks to the kindness and honesty of the owners of the store where she bought it. Lea Rose Fiega bought the scratch-off ticket in March at the Lucky Stop

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A drug dealer in the English city of Liverpool thought he was the big cheese — until police got all the evidence they needed to arrest him from a picture he shared of himself holding a small block of creamy Stilton cheese. Carl Stewart, 39,  was

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press The FBI was looking for an extremely valuable cache of U.S. government gold when agents excavated a remote site in Pennsylvania three years ago this month. That’s according to government emails and other recently released documents in the case. The FBI