•  Duck has three legs and four feet -

A farmer in China has spoken of his surprise after one of his ducks turned out to have three legs and four feet. Yang Fuyong, of Linchuan County, Guilin, southern China's Guangxi Province, said the duck was one of a batch of 600 he had bought as ducklings. While vaccinating them, he noticed one of them had one too many legs - and two too many feet. He has since sold the ducks but kept the unusual one for a pet. "I have been raising ducks for more than 10 years but I have never seen anything like this before," he said. "It has an extra leg behind the other two and that leg has two feet. I'm going to carry on raising it to see how it does." An official at the local livestock husbandry station said the duck was almost certainly the result of a genetic mutation.

•   Hunt is on for radioactive mouse -

US authorities are on the hunt for a radioactive mouse living in the grounds of a historic nuclear weapon production plant. Radioactive mouse droppings were discovered in the grounds of the Hanford nuclear plant in Washington State. It comes two weeks after a radioactive rabbit was captured on the same site, reports the Tri-City Herald.  Hanford workers have set about 60 mouse traps, but the two mice that have been caught so far were not contaminated. The mouse and rabbit droppings were found in the same area, leading contractors who are cleaning up the area to believe that the animals ate or drank a common source of radioactive contamination. The Washington State Department of Health said it does not believe there is any danger to the public. Hanford reactors produced plutonium for the US nuclear weapons program from 1944 to 1987, including the world's first nuclear bomb and the Fat Man bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan. Workers are now involved in a massive project to clean up the billions of gallons of liquid waste and millions of tons of solid waste created by the transformation of raw uranium into plutonium for bombs.

•    Mum sparks bomb alert to stop wedding -

A mother told Russian airport officials her daughter was a suicide bomber in a desperate bid to stop her flying away to get married. Police scrambled to intercept the unsuspecting bride-to-be as her plane was prevented from taking off from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. But when authorities realised the tip-off was bogus they traced the anonymous call back to the woman's mother, reports RIA Novosti. The 56-year-old was arrested on suspicion of making a false terror report, the state-run Russian news agency added. "Her daughter recently fell in love with a Moroccan citizen and was planning to get married to him and move to Morocco," said a police spokeswoman. "The woman was against the marriage and did not want her daughter to move abroad."