The UPI Odd News Minute is rounding up five of the best stories featuring goats, including tales of hoofed heroes escaping danger, climbing to new heights and not being ashamed to ask for "help." For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News ..read more

An alligator is rescued after being stuck in a drainage pipe for six months, a poodle is extracted from beneath the kitchen floor of a home and a British man breaks a world record by running a mile through the water at a swimming pool. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News ..read more

A 9-year-old British boy wins Europe's largest seagull-imitation contest and a dog shuts down the Legacy Tunnel in Brisbane, Australia, on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com ..read more

Australian doctors urge snake bite victims to stop bringing the offending serpents with them to the hospital, a Nigerian chess master fights through food poisoning to break a world record and a dog is found 17 days after escaping at a Melbourne airport on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News ..read more

The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include farmers using Axe body spray to cub aggression in rams, a pair of vultures that got drunk off fermented fruit, a stowaway snake on a Japanese bullet train and an update to the story of the mysterious object that crashed through the roof of a Naples, Fla., home. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News ..read more

A British couple's divorce is prematurely finalized due to a clerical error in a computer system and a Maine gun store employs an abandoned calf on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News ..read more

A loose lemur is spotted outside a bar in Texas, archaeologists in Belgium find a 100-year-old British train car underground and Australia's largest pumpkin becomes a boat on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News ..read more

A hippopotamus escapes into a suburb of Cape Town in South Africa, a home repair project in Michigan leads to the discovery of a time capsule from 1915 and David Rush defies death with his latest Guinness World Record on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News ..read more

The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include the finalists in Nationwide's "Wacky Pet Names" contest, Florida's Beer Can Island being put up for sale, a library book that was 105 years overdue and a very special spectator of Monday's solar eclipse. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News ..read more

An escaped horse visits the platform at a Sydney train station, a landscaping crew finds a Civil War cannonball in the back yard of a Virginia home and an Alberta grandmother holds the plank position for over 4 hours on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com ..read more