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In this March 20, 2014 photo released by Greenpeace, Arturo, a 28-year-old polar bear, stands inside his cage at the zoo in Mendoza, Argentina. Despite a petition by hundreds of thousands of people asking for Arturo’s relocation to a zoo in Winnipeg that has accepted the polar bear’s transfer, the Mendoza Zoo Director said yesterday that Arturo, will remain in Argentina. The country’s last remaining polar bear in captivity, only suffers the typical ailments of old age.

Human skull left at Dorset church

Police are appealing for information after an old human skull was left at a church in Dorset.

The warden of Lady St Mary’s Church on Church Green in Wareham found the skull on July 11. It had been carefully wrapped in tissue paper and placed in a bag before being deposited outside one of the church doors. Detective Constable Michelle Lawrence, of Dorset Police, said it could have been at the church for more than 24 hours before being discovered. “The skull appears to be very old and we are not treating this incident as suspicious at this time. We simply would like to identify where the skull originated from and to clarify in what circumstances it was found.”

Unexpected passenger leaps at bus

Safari park tourists were left terrified when a lion smashed its way through a window of their bus, The Sun reports.

The 21 stone beast, named Warze, leapt at the vehicle and head butted the glass and was left hanging from the window frame by his front paw. When the driver accelerated away, the lion ran off at the Serengeto Park in Hodenhagen, Germany.

Eyewitness Kirstin Drahm, 44, said: “I was showered in glass and looked up to see this massive lion scrambling to get in.”

World War ignorance among Brits

Half of people in Britain do not know that World War I began 100 years ago next month, The Daily Star reports.

The centenary of the war declaration was on August 4 is less than two weeks away. But a study of 10 per cent of 18- to 35-year-olds said they had not even heard of the Great War which accounted for a million British deaths.

The figures were put together by Leger Holidays who organise tours of the main battlefields including the Somme and Verdun.

Convict couture ‘is fashionable’

A Michigan sheriff says he is trading his inmates’ orange jumpsuits for black-and-white stripes, in part due to pop culture.

Saginaw County Sheriff William Federspiel said that all-orange jumpsuits are increasingly viewed as fashionable, especially because they are seen on popular TV shows such as the Netflix smash hit Orange Is The New Black.

Mr Federspiel said: “Some people think it’s cool to look like an inmate of the Saginaw County Jail... wearing all orange jumpsuits out at the mall or in public.”

Water bandits threaten villagers

Armed bandits in drought-stricken northern India are threatening to kill hundreds of villagers unless they deliver 35 buckets of water each day to the outlaws in their rural hideouts.

Since the threats were delivered last week, 28 villages have been obeying the order - taking turns handing over what the bandits are calling a daily “water tax” - police from Banda, a city on the southern border of central Uttar Pradesh state say.

The area is cut off from supply lines, leaving the bandits reliant on surrounding villages. Since 2007, it has been starved for rain, with the yearly monsoon bringing only half the usual number of 52 rainy days a year.