And drove off with it.

Two tourists were driving through Yellowstone National Park in the US last week, when they came across a bison calf. They thought it looked a bit chilly so they made the decision to put the calf in the boot of their SUV and drive off with it.

 

RUSSIA: He’s flown with cranes, petted a polar bear, and tranquilised a tiger. Now Vladimir Putin is ready to face the Downward Dog.

A shark bit a 68-year-old man several times off North Carolina, officials have said. The attack is the seventh such incident in the US state’s coastal waters in less than three weeks.

Extreme athlete Dean Potter, renowned for his bold climbs and BASE jumps, was one of two men killed while attempting a wingsuit flight in Yosemite National Park.

The US Secret Service is planning to attach a second layer of steel spikes to the top of the White House fence to keep would-be fence-jumpers out.

The Statue of Liberty has reopened to the public after New York state agreed to shoulder the costs of running the site during the US federal government shutdown.

Birthday cake attacked in courthouse

Scores waved tiny flags after taking the oath of US citizenship at the foot of the Statue of Liberty on Friday, 125 years after the iconic American symbol welcoming visitors and immigrants was dedicated.

Despite promises by U2 guitarist The Edge that it would be one of the greenest developments in the world, California's coastal development agency rejected a proposal for five mansions overlooking Malibu citing concerns that it would irrevocably damage the environment.

The state agency that oversees coastal development in California has again come out against a proposal led by U2 guitarist The Edge for a cluster of mansions overlooking Malibu.

An injured Irish climber was recovering in hospital today after being rescued by helicopter from Alaska’s Mount McKinley.

A MAN survived a 200ft (61m) plunge after apparently driving his car off the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, authorities in Arizona said.

US President Barack Obama declared an emergency today after a wave of tornado-spawning storms tore through the South, splintering buildings and killing more than 70 people in four states.

CALIFORNIA’S coastal development agency has postponed voting on U2 guitarist The Edge’s plan for a cluster of mansions overlooking Malibu at the musician’s request.

California's coastal development agency has postponed voting on U2 guitarist The Edge's plan for a cluster of mansions overlooking Malibu at the musician's request.

AN American pilot who dismissed initial reports of what turned out to be the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has died aged 96.

A fresh tsunami alert rang out in the capital of Samoa in the South Pacific today, hours after tsunami waves crashed ashore, killing at least 39 people and leaving scores unaccounted for.

THE US government will begin taking land from seven property owners so that the Flight 93 memorial can be built in time for the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, the National Park Service said.

A RANCH where notorious US mass murderer Charles Manson hid after a 1969 killing spree is being revisited by scientists to hunt for undiscovered graves, decades after law enforcement officers first raided the site.

A ranch where notorious US mass murderer Charles Manson hid after a 1969 killing spree is being revisited by scientists to hunt for undiscovered graves, decades after law enforcement officers raided the site.

The police chief in the remote region where Charles Manson hid after a killing spree in the summer of 1969 said tonight he will allow researchers to begin digging in search of possible human remains.

A wildlife biologist is believed to have died after catching the plague from a mountain lion, US officials said.

A four-year-old US girl was killed when she slipped off the edge of the Grand Canyon and fell several hundred feet.

Tropical Storm Gabrielle strengthened slightly today as the storm headed toward North Carolina’s Outer Banks, but its rain and winds were not expected to inflict much punishment as it slogged across the state’s famous chain of barrier islands.

Tropical Storm Gabrielle swirled towards North Carolina today, but its promised rain and high winds were not enough to scare residents and holidaymakers away from the beach.

THE earliest confirmed autopsy in North America was conducted more than 400 years ago by French colonists desperate to determine what was killing them as they endured a rugged winter on St Croix Island, scientists have concluded.

More than a foot of rain has washed out highways around the US capital, toppled a 100-year-old elm tree on the White House lawn and caused flooding that closed major government departments and the National Archives, where the Declaration of Independence is kept.

Hurricane Ophelia picked up strength as it closed in on North Carolina today, but many in the storm's path had shrugged off the threat of wind and flooding rain and ignored pleas to evacuate.

Barring last-minute terrorism alerts or other problems, New York’s Statue of Liberty will reopen to visitors today for the first time since the 2001 terrorist attacks that destroyed the nearby World Trade Centre.

Police officers failed to spot what could have been a “dirty bomb” planted in the heart of Washington, a report by US government investigators revealed today.

Martin Scorsese offered his moviemaking talent today to a campaign to reopen the Statue of Liberty to the public.

Martin Scorsese offered his moviemaking talent today to a campaign to reopen the Statue of Liberty to the public.

HURRICANE Isabel’s flight across the mid-Atlantic was swift, but its devastation will take time to overcome.

Sun Studio in Memphis, where recording pioneer Sam Phillips discovered Elvis Presley and other rock’n roll legends, is to receive historic landmark designation from the US government.

A nationally televised performance by a skimpily-dressed Beyonce at the Manhattan site where Ulysses S. Grant is entombed has been denounced as “inappropriate” by the head of the Grant Memorial Association.

AFTER being trapped under a boulder for five days in a remote area of southern Utah, USA, Aron Ralston resorted to a desperate measure. He cut off his arm with a pocketknife, according to the sheriff’s deputies. Officers found Ralston around 3pm on Thursday walking and covered in blood.

Investigators working for White House intern Chandra Levy’s parents discovered a human leg bone and twisted wire near the site where her remains were found in a Washington park.

A US grand jury in Philadelphia has indicted a man who allegedly struck the Liberty Bell with a sledgehammer.

Doctors were today trying to re-attach an eight-year-old boy’s arm after it was torn off by a shark.