Ziggy the cat's 17-day journey from Israel to UK
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Ziggy the cat used up at least one of his nine lives after surviving for 17 days without food on a 2,300 mile voyage that took him from northern Israel to England.
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LONDON - A 1,000-year-old stone carving, which has spent years marking the grave of a British couple&#39;s pet cat, has sold for more than $470,000.
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By RICHARD PYLE NEW YORK - In the nine months since escaping her travel cage at Kennedy Airport, Vivi the wayward whippet has joined the Central Park coyote, high-rise tiger, Harlem Meer caiman and Molly the fugitive feline in New York's ever-growing pantheon of urban animal legends.
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In the nine months since escaping her travel cage at Kennedy Airport, Vivi the wayward whippet has joined the Central Park coyote, high-rise tiger, Harlem Meer caiman and Molly the fugitive feline in New York's ever-growing pantheon of urban animal legends.
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JERUSALEM -- A man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor early yesterday and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leapt through a window of his home and hopped into bed with his sleeping family.
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LONDON - Puzzled and angry at being barred from the United States, Yusuf Islam, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, returned to London on Thursday vowing to find out why.    Surrounded by a throng of reporters at Heathrow Airport, Islam said it was ludicrous that he's on Washington's no-fly list, suspected of ties to terrorists, and said he would challenge the decision to block him from entering the country...
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A kitten survived a plane trip halfway across the United States after accidentally ending up in a suitcase, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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A plane bound for Washington from London was diverted to Maine on Tuesday after passenger Yusuf Islam &#151; formerly known as pop singer Cat Stevens &#151; showed up on a U.S. watch list, federal officials said.
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Pop diva Madonna has made a pilgrimage to Israel to practice her faith in the mystical Jewish religion of Kabbalah. The star is in Tel Aviv, where security is tight, on a three-day celebration of the Jewish New Year.
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Bidding his desk job goodbye, a web designer is taking his Segway scooter on a cross-country trek from Seattle to Boston. Friends are documenting the 10-mile-per-hour trip along the way. By Rachel Metz.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston, freed earlier this week in Gaza after 114 days as hostage of a radical Palestinian group, left Israel for London on Saturday, witnesses said.
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His trip includes Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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Frenchman Serge Girard has completed a 260-day run from Paris to Tokyo, breaking the record for the longest journey without a full day of rest.
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Right about now, John Moore is preparing to put more than 220 miles of road under his feet as part of his trek to Hungary.
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TEL AVIV, Israel - Madonna arrived in Israel on the eve of the Jewish New Year yesterday for a five-day spiritual pilgrimage to explore her interest in kabbala mysticism.
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Bring in three planeloads of equipment (including bomb-sniffing dogs) and make sure all the roads are sealed. And that's just in Israel
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The humble domestic cat has its origins in the Middle East, according to a genetic study in Science journal.