A stowaway kitten which arrived in Britain in the cargo hold of an Emirates jet is set to be rehomed – after the airline offered to pay her quarantine fees.
The well-travelled cat was given the name Cairo in late August after being found at Birmingham Airport in a shipment originating in Egypt.
Staff at Solihull Council then managed to secure a place for the kitten at Derby-based Lina’s Cat Rescue, saving the animal from the prospect of being put to sleep.
Australian trial held in London
An Australian judge is presiding over an Australian trial in an Australian court – in London.
Judge Ian Harrison has begun analysing evidence in a civil dispute involving a British jockey badly hurt in a race in New South Wales at a hearing of the Supreme Court of New South Wales – in Court 64 at the Royal Courts of Justice.
Lawyers said a courtroom had been provided so the judge could spend three weeks hearing evidence from British-based witnesses.
Briton selling snow in Dubai
A Briton living in Dubai is selling fresh snow to businessmen in the 50C heat, the Sun reported.
Ben Elliott-Scott, 37, supplies ice parties to wealthy executives who pay up to £180,000 for snowflakes in their homes.
Mr Elliot-Scott, from Bath, said: “There is a fascination for snow from people who have never seen it before.”
Hunter stuck arm in bear’s mouth
A Montana bow hunter is recovering after he survived a grizzly bear mauling by remembering a tip from his grandmother and shoving his arm down the animal’s throat.
Chase Dellwo, 26, was hunting with his brother near the town of Choteau when he came face-to-face with a male grizzly, the Great Falls Tribune reported. Mr Dellwo said he only had time to take a few steps back before the bear knocked him off his feet and bit his head. “He let go, but he was still on top of me roaring the loudest roar I have ever heard,” Mr Dellwo said.
The bear then bit Dellwo’s leg and shook him, tossing him in the air. As the bear came at him again, Mr Dellwo recalled a story he read in a magazine. “I remembered an article that my grandmother gave me a long time ago that said large animals have bad gag reflexes,” he said. “So I shoved my right arm down his throat.” The advice worked, and the bear left.
Mammoth museum in barn
A barn in south-eastern Michigan has suddenly become a natural history museum since bones from a woolly mammoth were discovered by a farmer while he was digging in a soybean field.
More than 200 people have stopped at Jim Bristle’s farm in Washtenaw County, west of Ann Arbor, since Friday. They have been driving into Chelsea, the closest town, and asking for directions.
“I’m just so glad to see the enthusiasm, and it’s not just from the kids,” Mr Bristle told The Ann Arbor News. “The adults who come out here are overwhelmed by this. I guess I’m a bit overwhelmed by it also.”
Lost time capsule at Florida school
Former students of a central Florida middle school were hoping to crack open a buried time capsule to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their school, but no-one remembers where it was buried.
Hoover Middle School teacher Jack Deppner filmed students on an 8mm camera in 1976, Florida Today reported. He also collected mementos to bury in the time capsule. Students reconnected on Facebook and raised the idea of opening the capsule, but no-one knew where it was buried. Mr Deppner died a few years ago but had searched for years and never found the spot.
Former student Dawn Atkinson-Spaccio said they are planning to use metal detectors and ground-penetrating radar to scour the campus.