Australian police have found human remains inside a large crocodile that is believed to have snatched a man from a boat in a popular national park.
Police found the remains inside a five-metre-long saltwater crocodile that park rangers shot while searching for a 62-year-old man who was attacked in Kakadu National Park over the weekend, Northern Territory Police Sergeant Andrew Hocking said.
The crocodile was one of two that were shot about a kilometre from the spot where the man was attacked, Sgt Hocking said.
Police were told the man, whose name has not been released, was on a boat with his wife, son and daughter-in-law when the crocodile snatched him.
Five die in Karachi airport attack
Five people were killed after gunmen attacked a terminal at Karachi’s international airport, Pakistani officials said late yesterday.
Five bodies were brought to Jinnah hospital, as well as one wounded person, Dr Seemi Jamali said at the time of going to press.
Shaukat Jamal, a spokesman for the Airport Security Force, said gunmen attacked the terminal late yesterday. Pakistani TV stations aired footage of what appeared to be a major fire at the airport, with the silhouette of a jet seen. The Pakistani military were called in and police were fighting the attackers.
The attack happened at a terminal not generally used for commercial flights but for special VIP flights.
Chicks in-spired by cathedral
The first peregrine falcon chicks to have hatched on England’s tallest cathedral spire in more than 60 years have been ringed.
The three chicks hatched in a nesting box installed on Salisbury Cathedral’s 123-metre-high spire three weeks ago. They have been ringed with a unique colour and identification number by well known ornithologist and wildlife presenter Ed Drewitt.
The chicks, who have been named Pip, Peter and Paula, were each weighed, measured and ringed in a process that took between five and seven minutes for each bird.
Irish cash in on taste for seaweed
A small island off the north coast of Ireland has emerged as an unlikely potential supplier of edible seaweed to Japan – a country whose own stocks have been hit by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
A mother and son team from Rathlin, an isolated island with a population of around 100, are trying to exploit the gap in the market caused by the contamination of the waters.
Kate Burns, right, and her son Benji McFaul are growing thousands of tonnes of kelp on ropes that extend out from the shoreline into the sea around Rathlin. They have found conditions are optimum for growing the fine species used in traditional Japanese miso soup and the thicker variety used in noodle recipes.
Iraqi translator now a US officer
An Iraqi man has gone from helping US soldiers communicate with local people during the 2003 invasion to becoming a US army lieutenant at Fort Campbell.
In the months after American forces invaded Iraq in 2003, Abdulla Mizead kept his distance. But one afternoon he approached some American troops on a street after seeing them having a tough time communicating with an Iraqi man.
Mizead, 25 at the time, had learned English growing up around the world and stepped in to help translate. A few minutes later, a sergeant asked him if he would be interested in being a translator to replace a Kuwaiti who was returning home.
Ferrets’ last laugh at Giuliani?
For 15 years, ferrets in New York City have been living in the shadows, outlawed under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who famously told a ferret fancier that “this excessive concern with little weasels is a sickness”.
Now there’s a bit of hope for the slinky creatures. Years of lobbying by ferret owners has finally landed an audience in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration, which says it could hold a hearing by the end of the year on a measure to make ferrets legal once again.
A group called Legalizing Ferret Ownership in NYC has collected 600 signatures on a petition to end the ban.