Torpedo bats drew attention over the weekend when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers in one game.

Bodega cats in New York City are widely loved feline workers in the Big Apple's convenience stores.

A Hawaii boat captain who rebuilt her whale-watching tour business after losing three boats in the deadly 2023 Lahaina wildfire captured iPhone footage her of golden retriever barking excitedly when a humpback swam near them over the weekend.

The star of “The Friend” has the loping stride of Robert Mitchum and the droopy, melancholy eyes of Peter Lorre.

From France to Iceland to the United States, April Fools’ Day is celebrated with practical jokes and elaborate hoaxes.

Left homeless after Hurricane Milton destroyed the Tropicana Field roof on Oct. 9, the Tampa Bay Rays began their season as renters at Steinbrenner Field, the spring training headquarters for the Yankees, playing the Colorado Rockies in the final major league opener.

Two British service members have admitted they broke and stole half of a statue of Paddington Bear.

Yellowstone National Park has a new thermal vent spewing steam in the air that could be visible to tourists once visitors flock back into the park.

When the COVID pandemic practically shut down Nashville's animal shelters, a volunteer photographer tried something different to get more dogs adopted.

Mysterious deaths, unexplained noises and late-night apparitions are not the usual fodder of daily tours offered at New Zealand's parliament in Wellington.

The central Dutch city of Utrecht has installed a “fish doorbell” that lets viewers of an online livestream help fish in their springtime swim to shallow spawning grounds.

A thief who swiped a golden toilet from an English palace has been convicted along with an accomplice who helped cash in on the spoils of the 18-carat work of art valued at more than $6 million.

The Chicago River is once again glowing kelly green as the city opens its annual St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.

A Michigan judge came up with a creative way to punish Walmart shoplifters: wash cars for free in the community when spring arrives.

The Illinois state flag is sometimes derided as an “SOB” — a state “Seal on a Bedsheet.”.

A house cat named Aggie has found her way back to her owner two months after the LA wildfires.

Authorities say a man passing through security at a New Jersey airport was found to have a live turtle concealed in his pants.

A Cheeto shaped like the beloved Pokémon Charizard has sold at auction for a total cost of $87,840.

A bucktoothed llama that spends his days comforting chronically ill children at a North Carolina camp founded by NASCAR royalty has been crowned the world’s oldest llama in captivity.

A dolphin weighing more than 900 pounds appeared to fall out of the sky before landing in a small fishing boat off the coast of New Zealand, shocking the three men on board.

Racers dressed as a skyscraper, beekeeper and a chest of drawers were among dozens of runners zipping around a central London square with a frying pan in hand to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, or “Pancake Day.”.

It’s timber over Tinder in a forest in northern Germany where the Bridegroom’s Oak has connected lovers for more than a century.

Czech cold-water swimmers have set a new world record for the largest polar bear dip.

Hollywood’s never-ending awards season can make it easy to get a little lost in the run-of-the-mill “best” categories.

A Gator took on a gator.

A horse that fell through the ice of an upstate New York pond was saved by rescuers who pulled together fiercely on ropes to free the animal from the frigid water.

Baby white rhino Nova has given her first open-air media show, jumping and frolicking with her mother Ellie in her enclosure at the Pairi Daiza zoo.

Authorities in Colorado say thieves nabbed a pair of high-priced bulldogs from a pet store after one of them allegedly faked a seizure to distract employees while an accomplice grabbed the puppies from a pen and ran out.

Colombian police apprehended a 40-year-old man attempting to smuggle several bags of cocaine concealed beneath a meticulously attached toupee.

A luxury home that had been on the verge of tumbling into Massachusetts' Cape Cod Bay due to erosion has been demolished.

A Michigan veterinarian says she rescued a distressed dog.

A vacation photo posted online by Shanghai-based designer Guo Qingshan and captioned “Puppy Mountain” has become a sensation in China.

Adrian Wojnarowski is cleaning out his office of cell phones and press passes, and even offering dinner dates in a bid to raise name, image and likeness funds for the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball program.

The trial of three men accused in the theft or sale of an 18-carat gold toilet that was a pricey piece of satirical art is underway in Britain.

Thieves used a stolen card to buy a winning French lottery ticket worth 500,000 euros or $523,000.

A look at some Yankees who trimmed their hair to comport with the team’s facial hair policy.

The New York Yankees have dropped their ban on beards, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner.

A wild game dinner in Pennsylvania aims to expose people to meat they might not otherwise be able to eat.

A Scottish Highland bull is the talk of the town in the rural hills of western Connecticut, where it has been roaming for over a month after escaping from its confines.

Birkenstock sandals are ubiquitous in summer.

Police in Munich are investigating a mystery: More than 1,000 stickers were put on gravestones and wooden crosses at three cemeteries in the German city, without any indication of where they came from or why.

Crocodiles, monkeys, tigers, zebras and dozens of other taxidermy animals will move to new homes after concerns about arsenic exposure forced the closure of the South Dakota museum where they had been displayed for decades.

A New Hampshire bakery owner has tesified that his excitement about displaying a painting by high school students of giant pastries quickly turned to annoyance after a zoning code officer told him it was a sign that had to be changed or removed.

A Michigan judge is putting sponges in the hands of shoplifters and ordering them to wash cars in a Walmart parking lot when spring weather arrives.

Feel like dissing instead of kissing your former lover this Valentine’s Day.

The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that began showing up on Florida beaches over the weekend.

A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such extraordinary flowering in as many months.

Arizona has added a new species of bat to the list of night-flying creatures that frequent the state.

A man described feeling “the shudders” as more than 100 venomous red-bellied black snakes were removed from a pile of mulch in his Sydney backyard.

A hearing in a New Mexico state courtroom has devolved into chaos when two people rushed the defendant in a murder case.

The heist of 100,000 eggs from the back of a trailer in Pennsylvania has become a whodunit that police have yet to crack.

The waters of Cape Cod Bay are coming for the big brown house perched on a sandy bluff high above the beach.

The Scottish government wants everyone to know it does not plan to ban cats.

It's a mix of art gallery, science exhibit and a 21st century funhouse.

German hunters tried to convince the jury at a national stag calling championship that they can imitate a bellowing red deer most realistically.

Groundhog Day predictions about the coming of spring put the spotlight on Punxsutawney Phil every Feb. 2.

Relatives of a spectator killed by an errant weight thrown at a youth track and field meet in Colorado say he was a dedicated father with a great sense of humor.

A man in the central Oregon city of Bend says he was responsible for some of the googly eyes placed on sculptures there.

The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad in 1923 will for the first time be on permanent display in Alaska after entities combined to win an action for the 14-karat gold spike Friday.

Officials say they have recaptured the final four monkeys who escaped two months ago from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research.

A man who survived being shoved onto subway tracks ahead of an oncoming train in New York City says that in spite of the trauma, he eventually plans to make his way back to the train.

An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a greenhouse in Sydney.

A Maine coon cat named Mittens accidentally flew three times between New Zealand and Australia this month after her cage was mistakenly left in the plane’s cargo hold.

A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis has been sold at auction for $545,371 as part of a larger collection of memorabilia from previous Games.

An 84-year-old British man armed only with a pair of trousers beat back a mugger half his age who tried to rob him at a laundry in the north of England.

Lazio has fired the man who handled the Italian soccer club’s eagle mascot after he posted photos and videos online of his own prosthetic penis.

Philadelphia Eagles star A.

Dunkin’ dropped the “Donuts” from its brand name years ago.

A popular New Zealand bird “reality show” that each year follows a pair of northern royal albatrosses as they breed and raise a chick has drawn a global audience of devoted fans in its current 10th season.

Wildlife officials have rescued a bull elk by lowering it down a cliff after the animal became entangled in a rope at a popular ice climbing area in southwestern Colorado.

Enthusiasm soared among about a dozen hardy swimmers during a daily ritual in northeast China’s “ice city” of Harbin even as the mercury dropped well below freezing.

For the elephants and others at the Berlin Zoo, it’s finally time to unwrap their Christmas presents.

Imagine having 5 gallons of mayonnaise dumped over your head.

Santa Claus has braved the sticky heat of the Amazon rainforest this weekend, taking two boats to bring gifts to the children of a small village near the Brazilian city of Manaus.

Two little piggies will not become Christmas Eve roast pork thanks to a holiday pardon they received from a Florida mayor.

NORAD’s Santa tracker is a Christmas tradition that’s become nearly global in scope.

Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library.

Santa Clauses are coming to town.

Googly eyes have been appearing on sculptures around the central Oregon city of Bend.

A New Jersey lawmaker from part of the state where several mysterious drones have been spotted in recent week says the devices appear to avoid detection by traditional methods.

Britain's spy agency is celebrating the festive season with a riddle wrapped in an enigma inside a mystery.

A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board game’s Spanish-language world title.

For months, a fugitive dog known as Scrim has transfixed the city of New Orleans.

It’s not just soccer anymore.

Depending on who you ask, the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election rattled the country or were cause for celebration.

Couples who look awkward on skates have gotten a chance to celebrate their cute clumsiness in a Rocky and Adrian look-alike contest at Philadelphia’s RockyFest.

The Southeastern Conference championship game will not feature another mascot showdown.

The oldest-known wild bird in the world has laid an egg at the ripe age of 74, her first in four years.

Did you have a “Brat summer” this year.

A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who had bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 million last week ate the fruit in Hong Kong on Friday.

In the remotest reaches of Alaska, there’s no relying on DoorDash to have Thanksgiving dinner delivered.

The world’s oldest man has died in England at age 112.

Police thought a shoe thief was on the loose at a kindergarten in southwestern Japan, until a security camera caught the furry culprit in action.

One Georgia city will welcome 2025 with a larger-than-average bang.

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.

Eagle lovers around the world who were crushed when the nest of a Minnesota pair and their chick collapsed on live video last year will get a when a new eagle camera goes live this week.

Authorities say only six monkeys are still on the loose after dozens escaped earlier this month from a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research.

Walk into any supermarket and you can usually buy a banana for less than $1.

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.

A New Hampshire animal shelter has an enor-mouse problem on its hands.