In what was one of the longest games in the history of professional baseball, the Oneonta Tigers beat the Brooklyn Cyclones, 6-1, in 26 innings in a New York-Penn League game Thursday night. Deik Scram hit a run-scoring single in the 26th inning to give the Class A Tigers the lead. They tacked on four more runs to ensure victory in the marathon game that took 6 hours, 40 minutes to finish. It was the was longest New York-Penn League game ever played.

A two faced kitten, with 2 mouths, 2 noses, 4 eyes, that was born with its strange condition disappeared early Friday after it was fed at 1 a. m. Dubbed Tiger, the kitten was only two days old when it was last seen. Columbus based television station WCMH said Tiger's two mouths meowed simultaneously. The kitten's owner said she awoke at about 5 a. m. to check on the cat after its early morning meal. However, the unusual kitten was nowhere to be found.

A young woman is recovering from surgery after being mauled by a tiger at Dublin Zoo. The woman scaled several safety barriers on Tuesday afternoon in an attempt to reach three Siberian tigers in their compound. "She pushed her hand through and the tiger reacted as any tiger would and bit her," a zoo spokeswoman said. After receiving first aid, the woman was rushed to hospital by ambulance and underwent emergency surgery on her arm.

A man who entered the lions' enclosures in a Kiev Zoo shouting and questioning the existence of God was mauled to death by a lioness. "The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," the official said.

A suspected criminal in South Africa was mauled to death after he hid from authorities in a tiger's cage. South African police say the man had just robbed a couple with a knife. He tried to escape by jumping over the Bloemfontein Zoo fence and taking refuge in the Bengal tiger's cage, reports BBC