All change at Red Square: ruff life on the Moscow Metro

Scientists in Moscow have discovered that stray dogs in the city have learned how to use the complex subway system. The dogs now not only board trains for shelter, but use them to travel into the city centre in the morning where they know they will find more food. And when their business is done for the day, they board another train to take them back to where they live. Russian biologist Andrew Poyarkov is studying the phenomenon, "sometimes they fall asleep and miss their stop. Then they get off take another train back to the centre," he said.

Ker-ching! Costly mouse nest takes the mickey

In Oregon, a petrol station worker found a mouse living in an ATM having made a nest from $20 bills. The ATM at the Gem Stop Chevron in La Grande in eastern Oregon housed the rodent who used a total of $320 for its bed.

Kinder surprise as cops bust a tiny tot burglar

Police in Romania investigating a burglary at a kindergarten during which several rooms were ransacked were shocked to discover that the perpetrator was a 5-year-old boy. Detectives first thought a robber was after petty cash, but then realised that the only things missing were nursery toys.

Heaven's above, is that you father?

A priest escaped injury in East Sussex after he had to adapt a daredevil fundraising stunt by walking behind a tightrope walker instead of standing on his shoulders with no safety equipment.