Odd News

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A pregnant woman in Florida shopped until her baby started to drop, authorities say.

LONDON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- British banking titans aren't letting the financial crisis limit their demand for nude paintings of their wives adorned by newsprint collages, an artist says.

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A Salt Lake City man says he shouldn't be fined by city authorities for moving a trap containing a skunk into the shade to protect the animal.

NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A New York TV station says it was just coincidence a speech by President George W. Bush about the economy was overlapped by an ad with a timely literary phrase.

WARREN, R.I., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A 1,568-pound pampered pumpkin was bumped from contention in the Southern New England Giant Pumpkin contest because it leaked.

NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A New York City Web site allows those who need to make an emergency bathroom stop avoid catastrophe by using their cell phone, its creators say.

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HOBART, Australia, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Foresters in Tasmania have discovered a 300-foot-high eucalyptus believed to be the second-highest tree in the world and the tallest hardwood.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Mary Queen of Scots may have been rejected by her subjects while she was alive but now a member of the Scottish parliament wants her body returned.

STORA MELLOSA, Sweden, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The owner of a pizzeria in central Sweden who works seven days a week and never takes a holiday has finally convinced tax authorities he does so without help.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A group of San Francisco first-graders took a field trip to City Hall to attend the marriage of their lesbian teacher.

LUBBOCK, Texas, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A television anchor in Lubbock, Texas, says she had no clue her boyfriend from a rival TV station planned to propose to her on-air during her show.

PERRANPORTH, England, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Clara Meadmore, who claims to be the oldest virgin in Britain, turned 105 Friday.

TROY, N.Y., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Rensselaer County, N.Y., officials insist the misspelling of Barack Obama's name as "Barack Osama" on absentee presidential ballots was an innocent mistake.