Swedish Christmas goat survives attack
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Vandals tried to set fire to a giant straw goat in central Sweden but failed to burn down the traditional Christmas monument, which has been soaked with flame-resistant chemicals, officials said Friday.
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EGYPT, Ark. - Goats normally have no more than two young at a time, so Scott and Tim Turner were understandably surprised when they found one of their herd of Boer goats had given birth to quadruplets. It is that time of year at the Buckshot Ridge Boer Goat Farm.
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Goats can help keep wildfires from springing up - by eating away brush prone to fueling them.
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A rampaging wallaroo. A unlicensed goat. Vanilla Ice.
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It's tough being a Spanish farmer, what with shrinking subsidies and bad weather. And now another scourge: the voracious, crop-crushing, furry little mountain vole.
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Family snaps help relieve ovine "separation anxiety"
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While much of Sweden is usually gripped by freezing temperatures and heavy snow in December, the south of the country was enjoying its mildest start to the month since 1953, meteorologists told Swedish radio.
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The Soay sheep of St. Kilda, a group of small Scottish islands, have been living free and unfettered for millennia. While these primitive sheep are still unmanaged, detailed records have been kept on them for the past 20 years. That makes St. Kilda a kind of natural evolutionary experiment, an island-scale Petri dish where sheep, not fruit flies, are the subjects.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Burglars tore down part of a wall to get into a grocer's shop in central Sweden but apparently were only after fish balls and a little shrimp - they didn't touch the cash.   "It puzzles both me and police why they took the trouble to tear down a wooden panel in the wall without taking anything of real value," storekeeper Yvonne Holm told The Associated Press on Wednesday...
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A 73-year-old Swede fended off an attacking bear by pelting it with stones during a quiet Sunday stroll in the forest, local media reported.
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A town in Sweden this Christmas hopes to win its battle with vandals who almost every year for the past four decades have foiled security measures to burn down the town's giant Yuletide straw ram.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 17 -- A Swedish cartoonist who depicted the prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog said Monday that police have taken him to a secret location and told him he cannot return home because of a death threat from insurgents in Iraq.
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OSLO, Norway - A Norwegian man with an illegal collection of exotic animals was rushed to the hospital twice in one day after being bitten by two different poisonous snakes, police said.  The man in his 30s was bitten by a rattlesnake Monday night, said police in Asker, near Oslo.
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Sweden&#39;s prime minister on Sunday appealed for calm following an Al-Qaeda death warrant on two journalists for a cartoon portraying the Prophet Mohammed as a dog and threats to attack top Swedish firms.
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STOCKHOLM - A Swedish cartoonist who depicted Islam's Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog said yesterday that police have taken him to a secret location and told him he cannot return home following a death threat from Al Qaeda in Iraq. Lars Vilks, who was whisked away by police when he returned to Sweden from Germany on Sunday, ...
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An Al-Qaeda front organization in Iraq has offered rewards to anyone who kills two Swedes behind a cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a dog, in a statement posted on the Internet.
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MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea  - Neither war, armed troops or befuddled border guards could stop South Korean dog sled teams from going to North Korea and mushing on Sunday where none of them have mushed before.