A sea turtle dubbed 'Piggy Bank' has had her fortunes restored after Thai vets removed 915 coins from her stomach -- a deposit built up after years of gulping down good luck pennies tossed into its pond.

Bloomberg's "Brackets for a Cause" March Madness charity contest gives the biggest names in business and finance a chance to make their NCAA basketball tournament picks to benefit the charity of their choice.

The former First Lady has long advocated for Americans to live active lives. In the picture, the 55-year-old 'Becoming' author can be seen doing a lunge with an exercise ball.

Dozens of exuberant villagers scoop up handfuls of cow dung this week for the Gorehabba festival, a local conclusion to India's most important festival, Diwali. The festival is unique to a village where locals believe their god -- Beereshwara Swamy -- was born in cow excrement. Some Hindus believe cows and everything they produce is sacred and purifying.

Indian vets extract 71 kilograms (156.5 pounds) of plastic, nails and other garbage from a pregnant cow, but both the animal and her baby died. An estimated five million cows roam India's cities, with many gorging on the vast amounts of plastic litter on the streets.

It was unclear why the whale traveled nearly so far upstream. One witness described it as like "seeing a camel at the North Pole."

The Taliban have seized major cities in Afghanistan as they race to take full control of the country, inching closer to Kabul. Meanwhile, the United States and Britain are deploying thousands of troops to evacuate their citizens from the capital. The conflict has escalated dramatically since May, when US-led forces began the final stage of their troop withdrawal. Ahead of the end of the NATO and US military mission on August 31, AFP spoke to war veterans about their time in Afghanistan.