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Can you spell irony? AARP , after all, bills itself as: a nonprofit membership organization of persons 50 and older dedicated to addressing their needs and interests.

If Batman had a cat, it would probably look something like this.

The household pet, named Yoda, was born with an extra set of ears.

Valerie and Ted Rock took him in two years ago after visiting a bar near their home in Chicago, where he was being passed round by curious drinkers.

AUSTRALIA - Mount Isa is a mining town in Queensland high in mineral deposits but short on ladies. Plenty of canaries but not enough birds, if you hear what I'm saying. Young fellas head to Mount Isa to cash in on the mining boom but men are men, with men's needs and men's desires and sure, their pockets are full but they want to get into someone's pants. And fair enough, they're only human. Well, most of them are. The ones without opposable thumbs are still able to wield a club and operate heavy machinery. Just not at the same time.

A 24-year-old Puerto Rican man who told relatives he always wanted to remain standing was granted his wish at his wake.

CHICAGO (AP) -- A man who contends he got a 9-foot tapeworm after eating undercooked fish has sued a Chicago restaurant.

POINT MARION, Pa. (AP) -- An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- A sailor rescued after he fell into Lake Michigan says one of the worst moments of the 12-hour ordeal came near the end, when a Coast Guard helicopter seemed to have its spotlight on him, only to turn away.

MORGANTOWN, Ky. (AP) -- A Kentucky sheriff drove 4,100 miles to California to pick up a fugitive, then realized when he got back he had the wrong guy.

Animal-lover Joe Mora was stunned when he saw a pigeon in a Queens playground painted purple.

POULSBO, Wash. (AP) -- A Poulsbo woman was jailed after being accused of beating up her fiance at their prenuptial party. Kitsap County sheriff's deputies said the woman's 12-year-old son told her he saw her fiance kissing one of her women friends early Thursday morning.

This extraordinary video shows the moment a packed bus was flipped over by a tornado.

An afternoon flight in a light aircraft turned into a life or death ordeal for a retired couple when their plane got entangled in high-voltage power lines in Germany.

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Life can get a little lonely for bachelors in the Australian Outback mining town of Mount Isa. So the mayor has offered up a solution: recruit ugly women.

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Australian media say a lost humpback whale calf has bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother.

A 35-year-old Texas woman has been jailed after police say she made her 12-year-old daughter drive her to a bar.

Two men claim they've bagged Bigfoot, and they say they have the hairy corpse of the legendary creature stored away in a freezer.

A day after giving birth to septuplets, a 27-year-old Egyptian woman said Sunday she's only seen her babies on television and hopes to hold them and name them soon.

You'll recall the tiger attack that occurred last Christmas at the San Francisco Zoo. In it, Paul Dhaliwal and his older brother Kulbir, along with their friend Carlos Sousa Jr., were attacked by a tiger who escaped from her enclosure.

In an effort to stop speeders once and for all, they built a 100 foot long and 2 foot high winding speed block in the middle of the Jing Zhuang highway.

Call him Sir Nils Olav. On Friday, Nils Olav, or actually, the third such King Penguin named Nils Olav, was knighted.