Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A Maryland man decided to buy some scratch-off lottery tickets for his wife and the gift ended up earning her a $50,000 prize.

Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Traffic was being diverted from an Ontario highway Tuesday due to a truck that rolled over and spilled its load of celery across the roadway.

Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The owner of a crocodile farm in Australia said mating season started early this year thanks to the males being put into the amorous mood by the presence of military helicopters.

Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Tank the tortoise has been returned to a Pennsylvania veterinary clinic more than a week after the slow-moving reptile escaped for the third time.

Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Police in Slovakia shared a traffic camera photo of a dog sitting behind the wheel of a speeding car.

Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Michael Duane Zack is expected to become the sixth death row inmate to be executed in Florida on Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to stop the planned lethal injection.

Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The Japanese government on Tuesday announced it to give U.S. semiconductor maker Micron Technology $1.2 billion to help it build a plant in Hiroshima in western Japan.

Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Dozens of elderly Greenland women are demanding compensation for being subjected to forced birth control by the Danish government more than 50 years ago.

Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A trio of scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their experiments that allowed the observation of electrons.

Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Shares in embattled Chinese property giant Evergrande jumped after trading resumed in Hong Kong after their suspension last week.