Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Officials in the Michigan city of Portland are pleading for Facebook users to stop sending them angry messages about the city of the same name in Oregon.

Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A California zoo confirmed it temporarily shut down when a bongo calf named Taylor Swift escaped from her enclosure.

Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Ecuador officials have told WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been in asylum in its British embassy for six years, to obey house rules or lose asylum.

Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Scuba divers in the Florida Keys took their Halloween spirit 30 feet below the surface for an underwater pumpkin carving contest.

Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A California zoo is investigating a cellphone video showing a visitor jumping a barrier around the facility's tiger pen.

Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The Ford Motor Co. debuted its Territory, a sport utility vehicle specifically made for the Chinese market.

Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The Russian Orthodox Church will sever all ties with Constantinople to protest the church leadership's endorsement of an independent Ukrainian church.

Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The head of a U.S.-based charity that aims to help young girls in Liberia has stepped aside temporarily amid a rape investigation.

Oct. 16 (UPI) -- South Korea's railroad corporation placed a request for proposal for an assessment of the economic viability of an inter-Korea railroad.

Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Embassy in the Australian capital apologized after sending out an email featuring a pajama-clad cat eating cookies.