Life can be cruel sometimes - as this pigeon would undoubtedly agree.

One minute it could not believe its luck when it came across a whole bagel discarded in Brixton, South London.

The next, it had delivered a mighty peck which threw the tasty morsel up in the air - only to land around the bird’s neck and agonizingly out of reach of its beak.

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It may have looked like Christmas outside, but Ward Nostdahl says it wasn’t reindeer he heard clomping on his roof.

Nostdahl called police to report a moose on the roof of his hillside home northwest of Minot.

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A wrong turn and an open door caused quite a commotion at the Beer Arena in Greensburg, in Westmoreland County.

Three deer darted in the open door and caught the clerk, who was texting on a cell phone, by surprise.

“One of them almost hit me, so I ducked into the lottery.  And as I was in there, I seen one of them go slamming into the door over there,” said clerk Anthony Shadler.

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Four times rescuers have raced to the banks of the River Test to help the stricken animal – only to see her happily trot away.

The reason for the 999 calls is not that the pony has sunk in the mire, but that she simply has very short legs.

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Police in India’s Haryana state believe they have found a novel way to tackle a plague of mice infesting official records and destroying evidence.

They have started using a pair of domesticated white rats to scare the mice away.

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