Twins separated at birth reportedly got married in Britain without realizing they were related

AP - A truck driver was cited after a load of chicken manure spilled out of his semi, covering a road for more than a mile in rural Cerro Gordo County.

AP - Twins who were separated at birth got married without realizing they were brother and sister, a lawmaker said, urging more information be provided on birth certificates for adopted children. A court annulled the British couple's union after they discovered their true relationship, Lord David Alton said.

AP - Pig fetuses believed stolen from a biology lab at a Des Moines high school were found impaled on car antennas at a rival school's parking lot in West Des Moines. The incident was discovered on Tuesday at Dowling Catholic High School.

AP - Dave Carlson says the police in this north-metro suburb thought he was joking when he called to report that his wallaby went AWOL. "And then they wanted to know what a wallaby was," he said. "I explained it was like a kangaroo, but smaller."

The owner of one of two Erie Canal-era taverns still standing in the city hopes to move the building to the terminus of the canal. ...

AP - A man claiming to be a Catholic priest was arrested Friday at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after he was caught carrying 7.7 pounds of cocaine under his robes, a spokesman for Dutch border police said.

AP - It's not often that a person orders a plate of fried oysters and walks away with a souvenir. But that's exactly what happened to Mike McHenry, of Washington Township, on Wednesday night when he thought he had chomped down on a piece of shell and instead spit out a pea-sized pearl.

A touching story of the love between a cephalopod and a plastic tuber-based child's toy. Awwwwww.

Advice: if you want to get your trial judge on your side, throwing human faeces at her is probably not the wisest idea.

The Government has shattered all our dreams, by saying that it has no plans to allow people to keep elephants as pets.

Guy who decided to have a little nap between railway tracks miraculously survives as train passes right over him.

Nationwide search for a missing 13-year-old boy turns up interesting fact - he's actually a 33-year-old woman.

Subway drivers in Seoul will get toilets in their cabs, after driver dies trying to defecate out of a moving train.

An FBI surveillance operation was shut down after telephone companies cut its lines for the agency failing to pay its bills.

Reuters - A couple discovered after they had married that they were twins who had been split up at birth and adopted by separate families, according to a member of Britain's House of Lords.

Reuters - New lyrics proposed for Spain's national anthem "stink", according to a prominent politician, and the country's athletes may have to keep singing "la la la" for a while longer in the winner's circle.

Residents come out on to the streets to witness the first snowfall in living memory in the Iraqi capital.

Reuters - A Japanese climber lost in the mountains for more than a week in frigid conditions survived by eating snow before making his way down to a ski resort on Friday, Japanese media said.

Reuters - A man was recovering in a Vancouver-area hospital after an attempt to film a mock hanging as a stunt accidentally became the real thing, police said on Thursday.