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A cat decided to jump 80 feet, after spending a week up a tree in South Carolina. And Bertie is glad to say that she survived her short flight to the ground with all her bones in tact. Piper-the-cat ran up the tree on March 13th. Her owners could only stand on the ground and [...]

Psychics and a pet detective are searching for Vivi, the prize-winning dog who ran away from an airport crate last week. Vivi’s owners have flown from California to New York to look for her, after New Yorkers said that they had seen her in a grave yard. One mystic psychic said that she was on [...]

A clever parrot saved his owner from burning to death in a fire in his home in Leeds, in the North of England. When the fire started, Merlin the Parrot tried squawking, but Peter, his owner, is deaf and could not hear him, although Merlin sounds rather like a real fire alarm sometimes. Merlin managed [...]

The world’s most expensive musical has opened in Toronto, Canada. The show is based on The Lord of the Rings, the fantasy novel by the British author, JR Tolkein. If you have read the book or seen the film, you will know it is an epic saga with magic and adventures involving hobbits, elves, and [...]

You can never be too young to start learning about economics – or at least that’s what America’s central bank the Federal reserve believes. The fed has launched its website for kids. It’s written in nice simple language, and is no doubt a useful teaching aid, but I must admit, I think a basic how-to [...]

Teachers are complaining about young children using a smelly deodorant called Lynx. Self-spraying seems to start in earnest at the age of 13, but some users even begin in primary school. Messages posted on the internet chat room of The Times Educational Supplement are full of complaints from teachers. One young teacher in her 20s [...]

What do you get when you cross a parrot with a rattle snake? – I don’t’ know, but when it talks, you listen carefully. What are the two things that you can’t have for dinner? – Lunch and breakfast. Why did the teacher marry the Janitor? – Because she was swept off her feet What [...]

Native Americans are playing the word-game Scrabble in a bid to save the language of the Dakota Sioux tribe. Before Europeans first came to North America, the only people to live in the country were the local tribes, depicted in Western movies as “Red Indians.” Now their numbers are dwindling, and so is their language. [...]

A television comedy called “Teachers” has started running on TV in the US. It doesn’t sound like it is going fill the gap left by “Friends.” The Chicago Sun calls it “never not lame.” What surprises me is the comment in the same review that says the comedy based on a programme of the same [...]

Robert Mugabe’s Government of Zimbabwe does not get much right, but at least it’s announced that school children will get lessons in HIV, and even have to sit an exam in the subject. Better late than never. At least one in five Zimbabweans are thought to be HIV positive.