A squirrel appears to be responsible for a grass fire in Central Mississippi. The animal was electrocuted and fell from a power line onto dry, thirsty ground.

Drunken wood pigeons have become a nuisance for bird rescue staff in New Zealand, with about 30 having to be rescued in the last two months. Robyn Webb, of the Whangarei Native Bird Rescue Center says, the kereru birds have been eating guava berries, which have fermented and caused the birds to become intoxicated.

Federal officials have begun searching trees near an Air Force base in Northern California for a destructive Asian beetle officials believe arrived last month in a shipment of tiles from China. Two Asian longhorned beetles were found outside a privately-operated warehouse at the former McClellan Air Force Base outside Sacramento. A team of U. S. Forest Service smokejumpers, firefighters trained in parachuting into forest fires, have been searching for traces of the insects in trees near the site since Monday.

A criminal gang in India has adopted an unorthodox, yet effective, method to avoid arrest: having women strip naked to distract police. The group is a timber mafia, dedicated to illegally chopping down trees in an eastern India forest in the Jharkhand state. The women are paid to strip in front of officers who are too embarrased, or too distracted, to hunt the criminals down, allowing more than enough time for escape.

A bone found on a British beach is all set to revive an interesting myth of that region that says that a monkey washed ashore during the Napoleonic Wars was executed by apprehensive local people for being a French spy. Police in Hartlepool, on the northeast coast of England, said that the one-foot bone found on a beach last month was not of any human being, instead it came from a monkey or gorilla.