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A smuggler who filled his trousers with rare snakes was caught when he landed at Prague airport because customs officers spotted them wriggling.The man had pulled his trousers tight tying them with string and tucked the legs into his socks after hiding the snakes inside. But his appearance alerted customs officers who arrested the man when he landed in the Czech capital after a flight from Africa. The 23-year-old man was also found to have scorpions and beetles in his luggage, local media reported.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - In 1985, Brian Calen claimed he was blinded in the right eye in a cruise ship accident. Seven years later, he said a ship's telescope blinded him again. Then, he said, he was blinded on two more trips — by a champagne bottle and a flying disc. All in the same eye. Calen's unlucky streak — which allowed him to collect more than $1 million in travelers' insurance money — finally caught up with him Wednesday, when he was charged with insurance fraud and grand larceny. "How does a guy get blinded again and again?" District...

GRAND SALINE, Texas -- A calf born in an east Texas town, about 60 miles east of Dallas, is thriving despite its two mouths and three eyes. According to owner Virginia Hale, the light red female calf "Unique" was born in a pasture on April 12. Hale said the 57-pound calf is friendly, likes to drink milk from its mother and enjoys lapping up water by using both tongues. The animal's extra mouth is on the lower left side of her face and her third eye, which blinks, is above the extra mouth. Hale took Unique to a veterinarian Monday...