BOISE, Idaho - It's become an annual winter tale: A young boy gets his tongue stuck to a metal pole, perhaps as the result of a dare.
SALT LAKE CITY - A dog missing for three weeks was found skinny but alive after getting stuck in a storm drain in a Salt Lake City suburb.

BERLIN (AFP) - A Swedish motorist fled terrified from his hire car after a snake suddenly slithered out from behind the dashboard onto the steering wheel, German police said on Tuesday.
LEBANON, Pa. - Police say a 13-year-old girl driving a 1994 Pontiac Grand Am led state troopers on a nine-mile (15-kilometre) freeway chase in central Pennsylvania at speeds of more than 100 mph (160 kph).

LONDON (AFP) - The British government has shut a unit which has investigated UFO sightings for more than 50 years, judging its resources better spent on more earthly threats, it said Friday.

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Some Australians are up in arms over a new kangaroo and emu flavored chip, horrified that people are encouraged to eat the nation's coat of arms which depicts the iconic Australian animals.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany spent more than 30 times as much collecting taxes on coffee beans ordered online from abroad than it received in the tax revenues, the accounting office said on Tuesday.
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Thieves who spent months tunneling from a rented house to an armoured car company made off with nearly $6 million over the weekend as season-ending football matches virtually paralyzed the nation, Brazilian authorities said Monday.
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