A tree trimmer is recovering after he was rushed to a Pittsburgh hospital with a chain saw blade embedded in his neck.

James Valentine was in a tree in Ross Township on Monday afternoon when he was struck in the neck by the saw. Another worker helped him down, and his co-workers left the saw in place to try to limit the bleeding.

An independent Scotland would drive on the right, replace the queen's head on coins and bring in U.N. peacekeepers with purple berets -- if Britain's newspapers were to believed on April Fool's Day.

The Scottish independence referendum on September 18 provided the subject matter for most of the traditional spoofs in Britain's largely London-based tabloids and broadsheets on April 1.

Russia tried Tuesday to stop a flood of enquiries about the telegenic young lawyer it has appointed as prosecutor for newly annexed Crimea, whose looks have won her a huge Internet following.

The Russian prosecutor general's office said it was tired of answering questions about 34-year-old Natalya Poklonskaya, who has become an unlikely Internet star and even the heroine of Japanese manga cartoon strips.

French livestock farmer Francois-Xavier Craquelin believes a little pampering goes a long way when it comes to producing meat prized for its melt-in-the mouth tenderness.

Cattle at his farm in northeastern France enjoy classical music, a special massage machine and even regular tipples of Normandy cider.

Police in the South African coastal city of Port Elizabeth said they arrested two suspected thieves found inside a cash machine on Monday.

The pair were discovered in a compartment behind the screen of the machine at a township petrol station in the early hours of the morning.

The impending royal visit by Prince William, his wife Kate and their baby son George provided ample fodder for April Fool's Day pranksters in New Zealand and Australia on Tuesday.

Coach firm InterCity said the British royals had decided to use a humble bus for part of their tour of New Zealand next week "in keeping with their frugal, down-to-earth public image".

A firefighter put his reptile-handling experience to good use when he rescued a 6-foot-long python from a burning home in western Michigan.

Muskegon firefighter Scott Hemmelsbach told The Muskegon Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1jQ2Vbf ) that he reluctantly agreed to enter the two-story, smoke-filled house Sunday night to retrieve the snake. He says he cradled the "weighty" snake before carrying it to safety.

A snake slithered into a rugby arena on Monday, grabbing the attention of fans and TV cameras.

Broadcasters showed images of a brown snake — about 1-meter (3-feet) long — in a grassy area between the field and the stands at Robina Stadium in the first half before it reportedly disappeared down a drain.

It's not every day that you can stand in line at the Louvre Museum next to a flock of live sheep.

But that's what happened to tourists Friday caught up in a protest by small farmers beneath the glass pyramid of the Paris museum.

A U.S. newlywed who pushed her husband off a cliff barely a week after the couple married was jailed for 30 years Thursday, officials said.

Jordan Linn Graham pleaded guilty to second-degree murder over the death of her husband Cody Lee Johnson in July last year in Glacier National Park in Montana, where they had gone hiking.