Giant Rat That Terrorized Swedish Family Killed At Last

A Swedish family's three-week nightmare is over: Ratzilla has been killed.

The gigantic rat that invaded the home of Erik Korsas and Signe Bengtsoon and set up shop under their kitchen sink was dubbed Ratzilla by the news media.

The couple suspected there was some kind of animal invader, but they didn't imagine an oversized rodent was in their midst.

"We thought it could be a little mouse, but after a while we figured it couldn't be because it was making too much noise," Bengtsson told The Local.

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Before you go to court, ask the witchdoctor, says Kenya's top judge

(Reuters) - A frustrated chief justice told Kenyans on Tuesday that even witchdoctors could help them resolve their disputes without taking each other to the overburdened courts.

Willy Mutunga, a respected lawyer, was appointed in 2011 to reform a judiciary widely seen as in the pay of the political elite and to cut red tape, at a time when many Kenyans had lost confidence in the courts.

Opening a new court building in Kiambu county near Nairobi, Mutunga said he was concerned that the growing demand for court services was adding to a backlog of thousands of lawsuits.

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Weird 'Chicken From Hell' Dinosaur Discovered In The Dakotas

Here's one dinosaur you do not want to mess with.

Paleontologists working in the Dakotas say they've discovered a new dinosaur species, Anzu wyliei, a.k.a. the "chicken from hell." Named after Anzu, a birdlike demon from ancient mythology, the feathered dinosaur roamed North and South Dakota 66 million years ago.

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Houdini cat: Meet Chamallow, the feline escape artist

A vet has renamed one animal in his care ‘the king of escape’, in a nod to the feline’s ability to break free from any cage in the practice.

Staff at the veterinary practice had been baffled as to how their adopted cat broke free from its cage every night, until they placed a camera in front of him one evening.

Holds Hands, Heat Up

As a marketing stunt, Duracell created a bus shelter up in chilly Montreal that would heat up, but only if the people in the shelter were holding hands.

Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon, but I would find it a bit annoying if I had to remove my gloves in the freezing weather to get the heater to work... and then stand there, arms spread apart. Plus, what if you really didn't want to be touching whomever had stumbled into the shelter with you? And what if you were there alone?

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LONDON (AP) — There is good luck, outrageous good fortune — and now there is the case of the scrap metal dealer who found one of the eight missing Faberge imperial eggs at a flea market in the American Midwest.

A London antique dealer said Wednesday that that the scrap metal entrepreneur bought the egg for about $14,000, thinking he could make a small profit by reselling the piece for its gold content.

It turned out the jewel-encrusted piece was worth millions.

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Real-life superhero in trouble after publicity

FLINT, Mich. -- Publicity over a dispute between two men over leadership of a costumed band of self-professed real-life Michigan superheroes ended up getting one of them in trouble again.

Adam Besso, 38, who hails from the Detroit area and is nicknamed "Bee Sting," pleaded guilty last month to leaving Michigan without permission of his probation officer, The Flint Journal and The Detroit News reported. He's to be sentenced March 31.

Besso also was cited by his probation officer for driving illegally and identifying himself as "Bee Sting," wearing a mask and a crime-fighting costume. Besso said authorities should have better things to do than pursue him.

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