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Reuters - Ukrainian officials summoned a
vet on Friday to determine whether a crocodile, captured after
six months on the run, was comatose or dead.

Reuters - A U.S.-based television channel
investigating the existence of the legendary Yeti in Nepal has
found footprints similar to those said to be that of the
abominable snowman, the company said on Friday.

AP - Irish police were hunting for a beer bandit who stole 450 full kegs from the Guinness brewery — the largest heist ever at Ireland’s largest brewer.

Reuters - Italian police burst into the
room of a suspected Mafia mobster in Sicily and arrested him as
he watched a television show about the arrest of a Mafia boss,
investigators said on Friday.

Reuters - Troubled sumo champion Asashoryu returned
to Japan on Friday with bows and apologies for secretly playing
soccer when he said he was too ill to wrestle.

AP - Tourists in the northern reaches of Sweden are often hunting for a moose to eat, but one area will soon welcome them to eat inside a moose. A giant, wooden moose.

AP - More than two decades after Aaron Giles lost his identity bracelet, he’s finding how it was discovered tough to swallow. A meat cutter at Olson Locker in Fairmont came across the shiny object in a chicken gizzard and saw a name, address and phone number engraved on it.

AP - Police used a battering ram to break down an apartment door and arrest a woman they say grabbed food from a pizza delivery man but failed to pay him.

AP - Missing: one parrot with Brooklyn accent. Reward: $10,000. The African gray parrot named Franklin disappeared from a pet boarding facility in Manhattan the day before Thanksgiving, said owner Leigh Ann Frankel.

AP - A teenager says he held up a dozen businesses in part to get “gas money” but made sure the heists wouldn’t make him miss curfew or church on Sundays with his mom.