Rats: Last News

¡Ay, caramba!Latin icon Shakira revealed Wednesday that an up close and personal encounter with a rat while filming the music video for her new song “Copa Vacía” prompted a domino effect of disastrous events.In a video that was posted to her Instagram account, the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer, 46, is seen lying in a pile of trash while dressed as a mermaid with pink hair. The camera then cuts to the furry fiend as it scampers over to the singer who lets out an ear-piercing scream and bolts straight up leaving her hair extensions behind.

Kathleen Corradi as “rat czar” — and the city’s conservative borough of Staten Island — during its Weekend Update segment.“Kathleen Corradi was announced New York City’s first rat czar — a title that was formerly known as Miss Staten Island,” co-host Michael Che Campbell said.The camera then pans to co-host Colin Jost, a Staten Island native, who appears to utter under his breath, “loser.”Jost had famously teamed with fellow islander and SNL alum Pete Davidson to buy a decommissioned ferry and turn it into an entertainment space.The Sanitation Department’s latest ad campaign against filth also was the brunt of a separate joke in the segment.“The New York City Sanitation Department has launched its first campaign in 15 years with messages such as, `If you litter, you’re garbage’, which is actually dialed back from the original version, `Your litter belongs in the trash next to your whore wife,'” Jost ripped.Meanwhile, Adams anti-rodent zealotry will be featured in this Saturday’s satirical Inner Circle show put on by New York City journalists.In the spoof of “Batman Forever”, rodent-hating Adams will be lampooned as “Ratman,” opposite his press secretary Fabian Levy’s “Fobin” at the outlandish annual charity event at the Ziegfeld Ballroom.The SNL segment also waded into the culture wars, dedicating a portion of its Weekend Update segment early Sunday to condemn the anti-transgender legislation being passed in states around America.Molly Kearney — the skit show’s first non-binary cast member — dropped into the fake news desk via a harness to slam politicians trying to eliminate healthcare for transgender youth.   

wrote Tuesday along with a photo of herself masked, in a beanie, holding what appear to be two plunger handles fashioned into a large chopstick-like device. “Stay safe out there folks and let’s please look out for each other as this new wave moves through our ranks,” the 31-year-old Wisconsin-born entertainer continues.

her love ballad for the protagonist of Disney’s 2007 film “Ratatouille.” Now she’s inspired a niche of the social-media platform to propose various elements for a DIY musical version of the film, which is about a rat with dreams of becoming a chef.“I give credit for the blow up to so many various creators,” Jaccs, 26, told Broadway World last month. She named a number of TikTok users, including the one who created a musical theater version of her original recording — complete with stage directions and a hopeful end slide announcing the adaption’s 2021 Broadway debut.By late October, a centralized account, RatatouilleTheTikTokMusical, had been born.

A rat was discovered treading water in a hotel swimming pool by a guest who filmed the exhausted animal trying to stay afloat.

The United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a rodent warning after scientists noticed starved rats are becoming more aggressive towards humans.

With the rat population set to explode over the coming summer months, it's worth taking a look at some of the most monstrously huge rodents found in Britain in recent years.