NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)-- Children of the 1980s will get a nostalgic reminder of that era's Saturday morning cartoons later this month, as Hello Kitty and Papa Smurf appear in giant balloon form ...

As the balloon ascended, its volume expanded to about 53 times its original size and finally burst. When Hello Kitty and capsule returned to earth, they were 50 feet up in a tree and 47.5 miles ...

Among the trash that balloons carried over the border from North were articles printed with Hello Kitty characters, badly worn clothing, and soil containing traces of human faeces and parasites ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hello, Kitty! Macy’s is about to introduce the newest balloons for its annual Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, and the popular Japanese cat character is among them.