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They’re not aliens. That’s the verdict from Peru officials …

A forensic archaeologist stands next a projection of a three-fingered hand, which was seized by authorities, at the Archeology Museum in Lima, Peru, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. According to forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada from Peru's prosecutor's office, two dolls and a three-fingered hand, which were seized before being shipped to Mexico, are constructed of paper, glue, metal, human and animal bones. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A man who claimed to be selling Queen Elizabeth II’s walking …

FILE - Queen Elizabeth II stands on the balcony during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant at the Buckingham Palace in London, Sunday, June 5, 2022, on the last of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. A 26-year-old man has been sentenced on Monday Jan. 8, 2024 for defrauding eBay buyers by trying to sell what he claimed was a walking stick used by the late Queen Elizabeth II as she struggled with mobility in old age. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File)

‘Cold-blooded’: 4 charged over alleged plot to smuggle …

In this undated photo provided by the New South Wales Police Force, Australian lizards are kept in a container after they are confiscated from smugglers. Four people have been charged over a plot to smuggle hundreds of Australian native reptiles from Sydney to Hong Kong police said in a statement on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (NSW Police via AP)

A dog shelter gets a warm response to its appeal for homes …

Two dogs wait to be adopted or temporarily fostered, in Krakow, Poland, on Sunday Jan. 7, 2024. The KTOZ Shelter for Homeless Animal on Friday sent out an urgent appeal to people to adopt or at least temporarily shelter some of its dogs until the dangerous cold spell passes. It didn't have room inside for all its 300 dogs and some where in pens outdoors. What it called "Operation Frost" was a huge success, with people arriving in droves, waiting in lines for hours and taking home 120 pups. (AP Photo)

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Time running out for landmark old boat that became a California …

Tourists explore the "Inverness Shipwreck" as it sits in disarray on the shores of Tomales Bay in Inverness, Calif. Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. Time is apparently running out for the old wooden boat that became an Instagram star as it rotted on a shoreline north of San Francisco. Recent storms have made a shambles of the forlorn vessel Point Reyes, a landmark that was already deteriorated from the over-attention of visitors to the Marin County coast. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

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With banku and jollof rice, Ghanian chef tries to …

Chef Failatu Abdul-Razak attempts to break a world record for marathon cooking in Tamale, northern Ghana on Friday Jan. 5, 2024. Failatu Abdul-Razak had cooked local dishes non-stop for over 110 hours as of Friday afternoon at a city hotel as part of her effort to surpass the Guinness World Record for a cook-a-thon of 119 hours and 57 minutes held by Irish chef Alan Fisher. (AP Photo)

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Chinese chess player sues to reclaim the title he …

FILE - Residents play Chinese chess games outside a residential area in Beijing on July 19, 2021. A competitor in Chinese chess says he has sued the national association in China for mental distress after he was stripped of a title for drinking alcohol and defecating in the bathtub of his hotel room at a recent competition. Yan Chenglong 's complaint — which demands that the association apologize, restore his reputation in the media and pay him 100,000 yuan ($14,000) in damages — was mailed to a court in central China's Henan province on Monday, Jan. 1, 2024, according to a post on Yan's social media account. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

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Unsold Christmas trees are on the menu for elephants …

An Asian elephant plays with a Christmas tree during the annual Christmas tree feeding at Berlin Zoo, in Berlin, Thursday Jan. 4, 2024. There's something different on the menu for the elephants and some of their fellow residents at the Berlin Zoo: Christmas trees. The treats were unwrapped at the zoo on Thursday in what has become an annual event. (Jens Kalaene/dpa via AP)

Lethal Sydney funnel-web spider ‘Hercules’ sets record …

In this Dec. 10, 2023 photo supplied by the Australian Reptile Park, a male specimen of the Sydney funnel-web spider, the world's most poisonous arachnid, has been found and donated to the Australian Reptile Park, north of Sydney. The spider, given the name "Hercules", measured 7.9 centimeters (3 inches) from foot to foot, surpassing the park's previous record-holder from 2018, the male funnel-web named "Colossus" and will be used in the reptile park's antivenom program. (Caitlin Vine/Australian Reptile Park via AP)

Idaho man arrested after flying stolen plane from …