ADELAIDE, Austria, March 18 (UPI) -- An Australian boy who died of a common ear infection had been taken from a house where garbage and human waste were piled high, authorities said.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Scientists in New Zealand say they have found feces from giant birds that became extinct thousands of years ago.
BRUSSELS, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Workers at a Brussels hotel said officials with the youth wing of Sweden's Social Democratic Party left a bedroom covered in human waste.
ALBUQUERQUE, July 12 (UPI) -- Police in Albuquerque, N.M., rescued 44 cats from a home owned by a 75-year old woman, who was taken to an assisted living facility.
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, May 10 (UPI) -- Using human feces to fertilize soil in eastern Uzbekistan could cause a typhoid outbreak, a local human rights group said.
PALM BAY, Fla., July 27 (UPI) -- Complaints from neighbors led police in Palm Bay, Fla., to a home covered with feces and trash and filled with about 40 cats.