UK's top feline diplomat comes out of retirement for the 'purr-fect' job

Britain's top feline diplomat has come out of retirement for a new, 'purr-fect' job. Palmerston, former chief mouser at the foreign office, is now UK's chief four-legged representative in Bermuda.

The news, posted Wednesday on Palmerston's official DiploMog account on X, comes more than four years after it was announced that he was retiring from public life to a "quieter and easier" life in the countryside.

On retirement, Palmerston was adopted by foreign office diplomat Andrew Murdoch, who has now been appointed governor of Bermuda. "Diplomacy and a purr-fect role have lured me out of retirement," the post said. "I've just started work as feline relations consultant (semi-retired) to the new Governor of Bermuda. I've been busy meeting very welcoming Bermudians." Palmerston, who is named after the longest-serving British foreign secretary, Lord Palmerston, arrived in govt in April 2016 as a rescue cat.

Heist of 100,000 eggs in US becomes a whodunit

The heist of 100,000 eggs from the back of a trailer in Pennsylvania has become a whodunit that police have yet to crack. Four days after the theft that law enforcement say could be tied to the sky-high cost of eggs, no leads have come in, said the Pennsylvania state police on Wednesday.

Bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing US egg prices to more than double their cost in the summer of 2023. And it appears there may be no relief in sight with Easter approaching. The 100,000 eggs were worth about $40,000.