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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Snowy Footprints Lead NJ Cops to Car Burglary Suspect

Authorities say footprints found in freshly fallen snow helped them find a car burglary suspect.

Evesham Police tell the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill that officers spotted the tracks shortly before 3 a.m. Monday, when they responded to a report of car burglaries in process near Yorktown Drive and Charter Oak Lane.

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Video: Drones in the USA deliver ice cold beers to thirsty fishermen

Drones in the USA are making some ice fishermen very happy by delivering crates of BEER to remote locations.

A tantalising video posted on YouTube in January showed Lakemaid Beer delivering a crate of cold brews to ice fishers in Minnesota.

After co-ordinates were programmed in by an employee at The Bait & Tackle near the frozen Lake Mille Lacs the drone took off with its cargo.



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Man sings Let it Go in voices of Disney and Pixar characters

Disney's Frozen has been a huge hit in cinemas and it's main song Let it Go has been covered hundreds of times on YouTube. But Brian Hull's very unique version of the song is now going viral online. Hull shows off impressive acting talents by singing the song in the voices of some of Disney and Pixar's most famous characters. He can sing like Scar, Timon and Pumba, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Mickey, Minnie and Goofy, amongst many others. See how many more characters you recognise! Read More

Economics Explains Why You Resemble Your Mate

Editor’s Note: Could our own dating habits be to blame for the economic mobility that, according to a recent study, has been stagnant for three decades? In this adaptation of his recent book, “Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Economics I Learned from Online Dating,” Stanford economist Paul Oyer explains how our preferences to be around other people perpetuate our own socioeconomic positions. Oyer’s first post for Making Sen$e – a compelling read for anyone reentering the dating market or trying to understand economics – is about how the separated economist gets discriminated against online. Read More

Upstate NY girl, 5, spends day at wrong school

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — Officials at an upstate New York school district say a kindergartner spent a day at the wrong school after getting on the wrong bus. Schenectady (skeh-NEHK'-ta-dee) city school district officials say the series of mistakes began Wednesday morning when the 5-year-old girl boarded the wrong bus, which was driven by a substitute driver. Read More

Woman in India gives birth to 'two-headed baby'

A woman in India who was too poor to afford an ultrasound has given birth to what initially appeared to be a baby with two heads. The infant is in fact conjoined twins, who have separate spinal cords, necks and heads, but share limbs and vital organs. Read More

First Kiss Video: Filmmaker Gets 20 Strangers to Make Out on YouTube with Awkward Results

Amateur filmmaker Tatia Pilieva has captured that most transient of human interactions on YouTube - the first kiss - in a touching video that reveals the wave of nerves and laughter it seems to bring us. Scroll down for the video Strangers were paired off and given no instruction other than to lock lips, with the seconds proceeding the kiss proving as interesting as the kiss itself. Read More

Rampaging elephant smashes up house but then 'saves crying baby trapped under debris'

A rampaging elephant smashed a house to bits in an Indian village, but turned back and rescued a baby trapped in the rubble, a couple have claimed. Dipak Mahato and his wife Lalita say a male elephant attacked their house in a village in West Bengal's Purulia district, but saved their ten-month-old daughter from beneath the debris. Read More