Weird News

MACON, Ga. (AP) -- One Georgia city will welcome 2025 with a larger-than-average bang.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- A Spanish court has upheld a ruling that a supermarket worker was unlawfully fired for having eaten a croquette that was going to be thrown away after not having been sold from the store's deli section.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Walk into any supermarket and you can generally buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might sell for more than $1 million at an upcoming auction at Sotheby's in New York.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Eagle lovers around the world who were crushed by the live-streamed collapse of a nest housing two birds and their chick will get another viewing opportunity when a new eagle camera goes live on Thursday.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska's largest city has attracted curious onlookers while biologists seek answers as to what caused the animal's death.

YEMASSEE, S.C. (AP) -- Six monkeys were still on the loose early Monday after dozens escaped earlier this month from a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research, according to authorities.

CHICAGO (AP) -- "The Bear" has a mirror image.

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City politicians are calling on Whoopi Goldberg to apologize for suggesting on air that a local bakery had declined to make "The View" co-host a batch of desserts for her birthday because of her political beliefs.

STRATHAM, N.H. (AP) -- A group of mice is called a nest, but what do you call 1,000 of them in one animal shelter?

LONDON (AP) -- A white military horse that galloped through central London drenched in blood after bolting with other horses from routine exercises this spring has returned home after more than six months of recovery, a charity announced Friday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California has seen its share of bears breaking into cars. But bears caught on camera entering luxury cars tipped off insurers that something wasn't quite right.

HELSINKI (AP) -- Latvian police said Thursday that criminal proceedings have been initiated against two Lithuanian citizens suspected of counterfeiting Ariel laundry detergent products and distributing them in significant quantities across Europe as part of an organized international crime venture.

YEMASSEE, S.C. (AP) -- Just eight monkeys remain free from the group who more than a week ago broke out of a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research, authorities said.

BANGKOK (AP) -- In case you can't get enough of the little pygmy hippo Moo Deng from Thailand, there's now an official song featuring the internet's favorite baby animal -- released in four languages for her global fans.

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) -- An endangered sea turtle that was found about a year ago some 5,000 miles (8,047 kilometers) from its native waters has been released into the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Houston Zoo.

BONNYRIGG, Scotland (AP) -- A lowly Scottish soccer club, which once had "James Bond" actor Sean Connery on its books, has been given a six-point deduction for having a sloping field.

YEMASSEE, S.C. (AP) -- Two more monkeys have been returned to the South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research, authorities said Tuesday.

YEMASSEE, S.C. (AP) -- Employees at a South Carolina compound that breeds monkeys for medical research have recaptured five more animals that escaped last week from an enclosure that wasn't fully locked.

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- More than 1,000 mariachis gathered in Mexico City's main plaza Sunday, strumming guitars and singing classics like "Cielito Lindo" to end a mariachi congress celebrating the musical form.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- More than half of the monkeys bred for medical research that escaped from a compound in South Carolina last week have now been recovered unharmed, officials said Sunday.