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In this photo provided by Pannonhalma Archabbey, a restorer shows an old book with holes in its pages due to a drugstore beetle infestation, at the Pannonhalma Archabbey's library in Pannonhalma, Hungary, Thursday, July 3, 2025, as a beetle infestation threatens its ancient collection. (Pannonhalma Archabbey via AP)
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Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation

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Baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng eats fruit presented for her first birthday celebration at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, Thursday, July 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thousands celebrate baby hippo Moo Deng's first birthday at a Thailand zoo

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Thousands of fans have flocked to a Thailand zoo to celebrate the first birthday of Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that's become a social media sensation.

Vehicles drive over rumble strips that play Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on a highway in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, July 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bassam Hatoum)

A classical drive: Road rumble strips play Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in UAE emirate of Fujairah

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A highway in Fujairah, UAE, now plays Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as cars drive over special rumble strips.

In this photo taken from video shows a bright object traveling in the sky in McDonough, Ga., Thursday, June 26, 2025. (Bryan Jennings Updyke via AP)

What's that in the sky? We're not sure, but the fireball was very bright

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An object bright enough to be seen streaking across the midday sky has fallen across parts of the Southeast U.S. The National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia, says the object was likely either a meteor or space junk.

In this image provided by the Lake Superior Zoo, Tundra, a 6-year old Alaskan brown bear, under goes a procedure for a new metal canine tooth, Monday June 23, 2025, at the zoo in Duluth, Minn. (Lake Superior Zoo via AP)

An Alaska brown bear has a new shiny smile after getting a huge metal crown for a canine tooth

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An Alaska brown bear at the Lake Superior Zoo in northeastern Minnesota has a gleaming new silver-colored canine tooth after a first-of-its-kind procedure.

Recyclers lie on plastic bottles blanketing Plaza Bolivar in Bogota, Colombia, as part of a protest against what recyclers consider to be too low a price paid to them by companies that buy recycled materials, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombian waste pickers inundate iconic Bogota square with plastic bottles to protest falling wages

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Dozens of Colombian waste pickers have inundated one of Bogota’s most iconic squares with about 15 tons of recyclable goods.

A bear is recorded by a hunters' camera in the Pabrade forests calmly feasting on animal baits in Pabrade, Lithuania, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (Paulius Peciulis via AP)

A wild bear enters Lithuania's capital. Hunters refuse a government request to shoot the animal

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Lithuanian hunters have refused to shoot a wild bear that was spotted roaming around the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius and criticized the government for issuing a permit to kill a member of the protected species.

In this image provided by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, DNS staffers, from left, Angela Kujawa, Sherry Raifsnider and Miranda VanCleave work to remove a lid from the neck of an immobilized black bear near Hillman, Michigan, on June 3, 2025. ( Michigan Department of Natural Resources via AP)

A Michigan bear roamed the woods for two years with an awful lid on his neck. Not anymore.

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A Michigan bear is feeling much, much better.

In this image provided by the Alpine Rescue Team, lamps are illuminated on a ridge as Alpine Rescue Team members take part in helping get two men struck by lightning off Torreys Peak in Colorado, Thursday, June 12, 2025. (Jake Smith/Alpine Rescue Team via AP)

Men hit by lightning plucked from mountain in record-high Colorado helicopter rescues

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Two men who were struck by lightning on a Colorado peak were flown to safety in what is believed to be the highest helicopter rescues on record in the mountainous state.

FILE - This Sept. 16, 2016 file image made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled "America," by Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. (AP Photo, File)

Men who stole $6 million golden toilet from English mansion sentenced to prison terms

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Two men who stole a $6.4 million golden toilet from an English mansion have been sentenced to more than two years in prison.

Fans gather in front of the O2 Arena prior to a performance by Pitbull on Monday, June 9, 2025, in London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

White shirts. Black ties. Bald caps. Pitbull’s fans party like clones worldwide

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Thousands and thousands of Pitbull fans dressed up for his London shows this week wearing bald caps, a white shirt, black tie and drawn-on facial hair, before swarming to the city’s O2 Arena.

FILE - Nicole Daedone, center, founder and former CEO of OneTaste, departs Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 in New York. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

Leaders of ‘orgasmic meditation’ women's wellness company OneTaste convicted in forced labor trial

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The leaders of a sex-focused women’s wellness company that promoted “orgasmic meditation” have been convicted of federal forced labor charges.

A detail of 'Cornclave", a vegetable sculpture made by Dean Ramsey and Jess Copsey, part of the vegetable sculpture completion at Lambeth County show at Brockwell Park vegetable fair in London, Saturday, June 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Joanna Chan)

A quirky vegetable sculpture contest features a squash Donald Trump and a papal 'Cornclave'

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Vegetable likenesses of U.S. President Donald Trump and singer Dolly Parton and a papal “Cornclave” are on display at the Lambeth Country Show.

Lucy Trout, from Olympia, Wash., watches as an abandoned ship is transported to shore on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Flying boats make for a rare sight as Washington clears an island of derelict vessels by helicopter

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The Washington Department of Natural Resources has been using one of its firefighting helicopters to haul abandoned boats off an uninhabited island in the southernmost reaches of Puget Sound this week.

People look on as an adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly-Dally, whose front flipper was amputated after she was rescued in January suffering from predator wounds, crawls into the Atlantic Ocean after being released, on the beach in front of Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Fla., Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Dilly Dally the sea turtle returns to the ocean after flipper amputation

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An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally is back in the Atlantic Ocean, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle hospital.

FILE - Gerry, left, and Kate McCann, parents of four-year old Madeleine McCann, present a picture of their daughter during a press conference in Berlin, Wednesday, June 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Sven Kaestner, File)

Police to start new search near where toddler Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007

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Police investigating the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann from a Portuguese holiday resort in 2007 are to conduct fresh searches in the area.

This image taken from video provided by Whatcom County Sheriff's Office shows a truck hauling an estimated 70,000 pounds of honeybee hives overturn on Friday, May 30, 2025 near Lynden, Wash. (Whatcom County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Millions of honeybees abuzz after truck overturns in Washington state

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About 250 million honeybees took to the skies when a commercial truck carrying them overturned in Washington state near the Canadian border.

A hyper-realistic reborn baby doll lies in an incubator for sale at a store in Campinas, Brazil Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil's lifelike doll craze goes from shopping malls to state legislatures

Read full article: Brazil's lifelike doll craze goes from shopping malls to state legislatures

Videos featuring emotional moments with hyper-realistic baby dolls have sparked both online fascination and political debate in Brazil, with lawmakers even bringing the lifelike dolls into legislatures.

Duaa Siyah Ouznali, 13, of San Diego, reacts after correctly spelling her word as she competes during the first preliminary round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

To win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, contenders must also master geography

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There are times when the Scripps National Spelling Bee transforms into a geography bee.

Members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) watch an elephant seal cornered on a street in Gordon's Bay, near Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo)

'How did you get here?' A large elephant seal is found lumbering along a South African street

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A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in South Africa on Tuesday.

Ned and Hercules are seen Thursday, May 15, 2025, at West Virginia International Yeager Airport, where they are used to keep birds and other wildlife away from the airfield, in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/John Raby)

Meet Hercules and Ned, the border collies fending off wildlife at West Virginia’s busiest airport

Read full article: Meet Hercules and Ned, the border collies fending off wildlife at West Virginia’s busiest airport

Two border collies have a full-time job keeping birds and other wildlife off the runway at West Virginia's busiest airport.

Oliver Widger, 29-year-old Oregon man who sailed from Oregon to Hawai, arrives at the Waikiki Yacht Club, on Saturday, May 24, 2025 in Waikiki, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Michelle Bir)

An Oregon man who quit his job to set sail with his cat arrives to cheering fans in Hawaii

Read full article: An Oregon man who quit his job to set sail with his cat arrives to cheering fans in Hawaii

An Oregon man who quit his job at a tire company and liquidated his retirement savings to set sail for Hawaii with his cat reached his destination Saturday.

The Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles head into the first turn as they compete in the Wienie 500 following the practice session for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Hot diggity dog! Wienermobiles put on riveting race in Wienie 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

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The top dog in a race among the six iconic Wienermobiles from Oscar Mayer proved to be the one representing the Southeast.

Lola, centre, receives the Palm Dog award on behalf of Panda, who could not attend, during the Palm Dog award ceremony at the 78th international film festival in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Panda wins the 2025 Palm Dog award at Cannes — and a look-alike accepts

Read full article: Panda wins the 2025 Palm Dog award at Cannes — and a look-alike accepts

It’s called the Palm Dog contest, but the winner of the annual Cannes Film Festival tradition was a Panda.

FILE - Monks carry baskets of supplies to the Simonopetra, or Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community of Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, on the peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece,, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, file)

Greek monk hospitalized after monastery clash linked to decades-old dispute

Read full article: Greek monk hospitalized after monastery clash linked to decades-old dispute

A monk has been hospitalized after an altercation at a monastic community in Greece, linked to a longstanding religious dispute.

FILE - Australia's James Magnussen smiles as he hold the gold medal he won in the Men's 100m freestyle final at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, on Aug. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

A new sports festival in Las Vegas is letting athletes use performance-enhancing drugs

Read full article: A new sports festival in Las Vegas is letting athletes use performance-enhancing drugs

The Enhanced Games is a sports festival that bills itself as better than the Olympics because it allows athletes to benefit from using performance-enhancing drugs.

A lion sits in a cage waiting to be transported to Mazatlan, Sinaloa state, at the Ostok Sanctuary, on the outskirts of Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Tigers, jaguars and elephants are the latest to flee cartel violence in Mexico's Sinaloa

Read full article: Tigers, jaguars and elephants are the latest to flee cartel violence in Mexico's Sinaloa

A pack of veterinarians clamber over hefty metal crates of animals they load one-by-one onto a fleet of semi-trucks.

FILE - Josef Newgarden crosses the finish line to win the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Sunday, May 26, 2024. (AP Photo/AJ Mast, file)

Hot dog: Oscar Mayer's Weinermobile fleet set to race during Indy 500's Carb Day festivities

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Oscar Mayer’s iconic Wienermobile fleet will be “hot dogging” it later this week at the inaugural "Wienie 500.”.

FILE - Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, left, of SG Alpine Warriors plays against Poland's Jan-Krzysztof Duda of Chingari Gulf Titans during Global Chess League in Dubai United Arab Emirates, on July 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is forced into a draw in a showdown against ‘the world’

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Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw Monday by more than 143,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting game.

FILE - This Sept. 16, 2016 file image made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled "America," by Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. (AP Photo, File)

Man who tried to sell $6.4m gold toilet stolen from English country house is spared jail

Read full article: Man who tried to sell $6.4m gold toilet stolen from English country house is spared jail

A man who tried to help a burglar cash in from the theft of a gold toilet was spared prison on Monday after a British judge said he had been taken advantage of by the thieves.

Raphael Quenard, left, and Hugo David, right, pose with a person dressed in bird costume upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Die, My Love' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Photo by Lewis Joly/Invision/AP)

Bird man on red carpet leaves Cannes squawking

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Stars in glamorous gowns often peacock on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet, but one attendee Saturday night literally came as a bird.

Heather Donahue walks on a rural road, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, in Freedom, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Still finding trouble in the woods: 'Blair Witch Project' star at center of Maine road dispute

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Heather Donahue starred in the low-budget hit movie “The Blair Witch Project” and has been embroiled in a spat with locals in her tiny Maine town after she started marking trees to help people find their way in the dense forests.

This Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024 photo shows the bronze statue representing Melania Trump that was sawed off and taken away, in the village of Rozno, Slovenia, near Malenia Trump's hometown of Sevnica. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Police investigate disappearance of Melania Trump's statue in her native Slovenia

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Police in Slovenia are investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue of U.S. first lady Melania Trump that was sawed off and carried away from her hometown.

FILE - Former NBA basketball player Paul Pierce smiles watching warmups before an NBA basketball game between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Chicago Bulls, Nov. 14, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo, file)

Paul Pierce says he walked 20 miles to work in a robe as punishment for guaranteeing a Celtics' win

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Former Celtics great Paul Pierce was so confident in his team in Game 2 against the Knicks, he said he would walk to work barefoot “in my robe” if they lost for a second straight game in the second-round series.