A radio station in Zimbabwe was temporarily forced off the air after a group of baboons raided a transmission tower and chewed through cables, a state daily reported Thursday.
The Chronicle newspaper said the newly-launched YA FM went down during the breakfast show on Wednesday, sending technicians into an emergency search to identify the problem.
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A Brazilian nature reserve has agreed to take in an orangutan who shot to fame when a court ruled she was a "non-human" being unlawfully held at a zoo, lawyers said Thursday.
The case of Sandra, a 30-year-old orangutan, made news around the world last December when an Argentine court ruled she had thoughts, feelings and certain basic rights, and as such was being subjected to unjust confinement at the Buenos Aires Zoo.
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Police are seeking a robbery suspect with nice nails.
They say a man got a manicure at a nail salon on West Rockland Street in Philadelphia on Sunday and then robbed the place at gunpoint.
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A leopard got its head stuck in a metal pot after venturing into a village in northern India on Wednesday.
Media reports said it was thirsty and tried to drink water.
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More than 200 aerial daredevils plunged into the record books this week, linking up in a giant lattice-like configuration 7,000 feet (2,130 meters) above Southern California to shatter a world record for the largest sequential skydiving formation.
The group of 202 leaped Tuesday afternoon at Skydive Perris, 80 miles (130 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported (http://bit.ly/1FEtj3e).
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One of London's fastest-changing neighborhoods is echoing to the snap, crackle and pop of conflict.
An East End cafe that serves 120 varieties of breakfast cereal — along with 30 kinds of milk — has become a surprising flashpoint for protest in a city increasingly polarized between rich and poor.
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A monkey that escaped its owner's home in an Orlando, Florida, suburb chewed on its neighbors' mail, pulled molding off a police car and rocked back and forth on a street sign.
Zeek was eventually caught when his owner returned home a short time later.
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A New Jersey woman must get her two parrots to quiet down after the birds gave someone something to squawk about.
Elaine Scattergood was ticketed in May after someone complained that her birds, Edmund and Arthur, were too loud.
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An Australian sheep that underwent a life-saving shave after being found with a massive fleece has entered the Guinness World Records for having the most wool sheared in a single sitting.
The merino sheep, which was nicknamed Chris after it was found wandering alone just outside Australia's capital Canberra in early September, had 41.1 kilograms (90.6 pounds) of wool taken off in one piece by a champion shearer.
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A huge Nazi flag on the facade of a building has caused dismay in the southern French city of Nice, with some residents apparently unaware it was a prop for a World War II film.
Complete with vehicles with Nazi insignia, the set was for an adaptation of Joseph Joffo's book, "A Bag of Marbles", about two young boys on the run in Nazi-occupied France.
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