Controversial project aims to produce disease-resistant livestock

Cloning has been a controversial issue since German embryologist Hans Spemann first made a pair of adorable, genetically identical salamander twins out of a single egg, way back in nineteen-dickety-two.

Lost parrot found after 24 days

LOS ANGELES, July 28 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles woman said her African gray parrot was found about 2 miles from home more than three weeks after flying away from her owner's back yard. Los Angeles - United States - California - Counties - Lost

The 30 simple things women really want

1. Fat-free versions of garlic bread, trifle and brie. 2. A kitchen worktop that's minus Sunday's gravy and shrivelled strips of some kind of vegetable (probably onion), which have become one with the surface and won't shift until the woman of the house administers the Brillo.

Sick kitten dropped into library box

CHELTENHAM, Pa., July 27 (UPI) -- A small kitten was stuffed into a book drop at a library in the Philadelphia suburbs, officials say. Philadelphia - United States - Cheltenham - Pennsylvania - Metro Areas

Discovered: The biggest rat that ever lived

Watch out, Heathcliff: There's a rat out there bigger than you. Or at least there was. Just a couple of thousand years ago, the world's largest rat scuttled about Southeast Asia.