Britain's Prince Charles has had to halt the renovation work on his recently purchased Welsh farmhouse after bats were found roosting in an outbuilding. The prince is converting his remote $2. 4 million Llwynynwormwood estate in Myddfai, Carmarthenshire, into a holiday complex and an initially report into bat and owl activity concluded building work would have minimal impact on the wildlife. But common pipistrelle and brown long-eared bats have now been found roosting in a building on the estate which Charles has applied to transform into nearly $4 million luxury 11-bed resort.

A German Court on Monday dropped a case against three teenagers whose festive firecrackers outside an eastern German farm, allegedly, not only scared an ostrich but also made the bird impotent. Rico Gabel, the owner of the farm in Lohsa, northeast of Dresden, had charged that the boys should pay for the losses he incurred due to the impotency of the bird. After hearing a testimony from an ostrich expert that said there was no connection between the noise and the lack of offspring, the court ordered the teens to only pay $188 that Gabel spent on his ostrich's vet costs, according to the AP reports.

An elusive 6 1/2 foot former pet alligator was captured Friday and taken to the zoo. Known as "Reggie," the reptile has been hiding out at Harbor Regional Park's Lake Machado for two years, ever since its former owner discarded it when it grew too large. On Thursday, the gator came out to sun itself and officials were waiting with equipment to trap the unsuspecting beast.

It sounds like a tale from a storybook but the sunken treasure found in the Atlantic Ocean Friday is real and worth $500 million. Odyssey Marine Exploration deep-sea explorers found a shipwreck that yielded 17-tons of colonial-era gold and silver coins in an undisclosed area in the ocean. They brought the booty to the surface in plastic containers to be analyzed.

A 17-year-old Japanese high school student turned himself over to authorities along with the head of who he claims to be his mother. The teen admitted to killing his mother while she was sleeping during the eve of her 47th birthday. The Japanese teenager brought the police to his house located in Aizuwakamatsu city and showed a beheaded body in his apartment. He added, "It didn't matter who I killed. "