Britain's Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, has had a cow named after her. Gloucestershire farmer Sally Jones - who names all her cattle after members of the British Royal Family or royal events - has named her newborn calf Camilla.

A 2-year-old calf in the Indian city of Mumbai refused to get slaughtered by running away from the butchery house on New Year's Day. The calf was rescued by the members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, when he kept butchers at bay for nearly seven hours.

As a part of a promotion for a two-day Invitational Bull Riders event on Jan. 6-7, five cabs decorated in brown and white fake cowhide with roofs topped with bull's horns lined up just outside Madison Square Garden on Tuesday. According to Gavin Harvey, a cable TV executive backing the event, "It's hard to get noticed in New York. "

Two elderly women who are the only living souls in the remote Serbian village of Grade have become famous for not speaking to each other and insulting one another in a local newspaper. In a report by ananova. com, the two women were identified as Ruzica Markovic and Ljubica Paunovic, both from the Grade, the smallest village in Serbia. It was said the two women had a falling out three years ago when one of them insulted the other's cow.

Tiny Green Mountain College in Vermont is going greener with plans to use cow manure to generate power. Officials at the 750-student liberal arts collge in Poultney, Vermont said the plan will cut its greenhouse gas emissions.