World briefs
Clooney arrested in protest
George Clooney and his dad have been arrested during a protest outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington.
The Hollywood star, his father Nick Clooney, and others including civil rights leaders Ben Jealous and Martin Luther King III, were arrested after being warned three times not to cross a police line that was situated outside the Suadenese embassy. They were handcuffed and placed into a US Secret Service van.
The protesters are accusing Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir of provoking a humanitarian crisis and blocking food and aid from entering the Nuba Mountains in the county’s border region with South Sudan.#
Earthquake mall stampede
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck the southern Philippines triggering a stampede in a shopping mall that left at least 20 people injured.
Most of the injured were sent home after being treated for minor cuts. Two people who were crushed remained in hospital for observation in Surigao City.
“It was very strong. You could really feel it. You could see the vehicles moving. I could not control my body as it was moving,” said Albert Lancin, a city health official.
Glass doors shattered and panicked shoppers surged out of the mall, which had only opened yesterday.
Doubt over Putin tiger feat
A tiger can’t change its stripes - which is leading Russians to wonder if Vladimir Putin needs to change his story about which one he shot.
In one of the macho photo moments the Russian leader often indulges in, he was shown on an expedition in the Far East in 2008 with preservationists tracking wild Amur tigers. According to the video footage, Mr Putin shot one of the rare beasts with a tranquilliser gun so Russian scientists could put a GPS collar on the tiger.
Mr Putin’s website later showed photos of what it claimed to be the same tiger, back in the wild. But environmentalist Dmitry Molodtsov, who runs a website, on the big cats has posted an investigation indicating that the tiger shot by Mr Putin is not the same one shown later on the video footage.
Faster than light? ‘No’
European researchers say they have measured the speed of neutrinos and found the subatomic particles do not travel faster than light.
The results appear to disprove another team’s measurements that astounded the science world last year by seeming to show neutrinos breaking the light speed barrier.
Nobel Prize winning physicist Carlo Rubbia says his team used a different experiment to trap neutrinos fired from the CERN laboratory in Switzerland to a detector hundreds of kilometres away in Italy.