A pair of amorous Polish donkeys have recovered their right to make love in public after a local official sought to keep them apart.

The scandal erupted earlier this week when zoo-goers saw the animals, which have already produced six offspring over their decade together, coupling in plain view.

A Canadian has been caught at the U.S.-Canada border with 51 live turtles stuffed in his pants in what American authorities claimed was an elaborate reptile smuggling operation.

The scheme was uncovered last month but was only revealed this week in U.S. federal court documents cited in a Friday report by the Toronto Globe and Mail.

A dragonfly twice danced on the shotgun of Olympic shooting medalist Fehaid al-Deehani as he was about to fire gold medal shots at the Asian Games and the Kuwaiti shooter believes he was robbed.

The dragonfly is often associated with good luck, but al-Deehani said it abandoned him at the Games shooting range.

Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf, star of three "Transformers" films, on Thursday ran 144 laps around Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum in his latest conceptual art performance.

Dressed in purple leggings and a green crop top, LaBeouf, 28, appeared intently focused and ignored questions from journalists as he stretched before starting his #metamarathon around the world-famous modern art museum.

Politics can sometimes be unpredictable, as New York Mayor Bill de Blasio learned following reports that a groundhog he dropped during a photo session died last February.

The groundhog, named Chuck, squirmed out of the six-foot-three mayor's arms while he was posing for photos on February 2 -- Groundhog Day -- and plummeted to the floor, the New York Post reported Thursday.

A truck dripping rancid juices from thousands of pounds of rotting chicken sat in the heat attracting flies Thursday at a western Montana truck stop, where an Idaho trucking company employee abandoned it.

The driver left the trailer containing approximately 37,000 pounds of frozen chicken near the Flying J Truck Stop west of Missoula after the company refused his requests for more money, authorities said. The chicken was worth $80,000.

French Muslims were on Thursday called to rally against the "barbaric" beheading of a hostage by Algerian jihadists with links to radical Islamic State militants.

Dalil Boubakeur, the president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) -- an official representative for the country's estimated five million Muslims -- called for the gathering at the Paris Mosque on Friday afternoon.

Human thumbs are just too stumpy to navigate bigger-than-ever smartphone screens, but a Japanese gadget maker has a solution: a thumb extender.

Enter Japan-based Thanko that is hawking a silicone-based device called the "Yubi Nobiiru", or "stretched finger", for 1,480 yen ($13.55) apiece.

Firefighters who doused the flames at a North Texas house have also made sure the lone resident didn't croak.

Fort Worth firefighters rescued a pet frog and returned the amphibian to the daughter of the homeowners who were out of town.

An online sale of sex toys could give Kansas a boost of revenue.

The sale is being held so the owner of five adult stores can pay off a tax debt to the state.