Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A Michigan woman was shocked to win a $1 million lottery jackpot from a scratch-off lottery ticket she selected at "random."

Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The girls' bathroom at a Florida elementary school became a "wildlife zone" when a wandering opossum took up residence in the restroom.

Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A 44-year-old man was arrested Thursday in the London stabbing death of 87-year-old Thomas O'Halloran. Police said he is in custody on suspicion of murder. O'Halloran was stabbed Tuesday in west London.

Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The federal government will make 1.8 million doses of the monkeypox vaccine available for ordering as part of a series of actions to accelerate mitigation of the virus's outbreak in the United States.

Researchers may have found a new way to help ease the pain of knee replacement surgery: infusing morphine directly into the shin bone.

Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Students in the U.K. saw their grades drop this year, the first time in three years students have taken exams because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Washington State University announced its corpse flower, a plant nicknamed after its signature stench, bloomed for the first time on the school's Vancouver campus.

Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Authorities in Italy hit two tourists with heavy fines for surfing along the famed Grand Canal in Venice, a stunt that upset the city's mayor.

Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie with a knife at an event in New York last week has been indicted by a grand jury and will face criminal charges in court on Thursday.

U.S. health officials are investigating an outbreak of E. coli that has infected 29 people in Michigan and Ohio.