Singapore - Three white tigers at the Singapore Zoo attacked and killed a Malaysian worker Thursday, the zoo said.
Nordin Bin Montong, 32, jumped into the moat at the white tiger exhibit and was attacked by the three animals, the zoo said. Zookeepers distracted the tigers from the victim and pulled him out of the enclosure.
"While waiting for the ambulance, our vets attended to him," the zoo said in a statement.
However, "the worker tragically succumbed to his wounds," assistant director Biswajit Guha said.
Johannesburg - When Zafar Wahid, a project manager with Liberty Life insurance company, was relieved of his car at gunpoint in Johannesburg recently, he knew exactly where to go to get a knock-down replacement.
On an unseasonably cold summer's evening, Wahid, still wearing his work trousers and tie, walks past a string of cars in Burchmore's showroom in northern Johannesburg, towards the auction room, where around 200 people are crammed into rows of tiered plastic seats.
Baghdad - The Iraqi soldier who killed 4 US soldiers on Wednesday was acting in anger after the Americans mocked him while he was praying, witnesses told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Thursday.
Earlier reports about the incident in the northern city of Mosul had said that the Iraqi soldier opened fire on a group of US soldiers after a verbal dispute.
Praying five times a day is a religious obligation for Muslims. Men usually go to mosques to pray.
Miami, Nov 13 : Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who was the running mate of Republican presidential candidate John McCain in the Nov 4 poll, got cold vibes from 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls at the Republican governors summit convened to find out the reasons of the recent defeat to Democratic Barack Obama, reported the New York Daily News.
When asked if Palin was the best choice McCain could have made for a running mate, no one jumped to answer.
The paper said: “As Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin arrived in Florida for a Republican governors summit, there was a hint of a chill in the air from her potential rivals for the 2012 White House race.”
Washington, Nov 13 : NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, has arrived at its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, to begin final launch preparations.
Called ‘The Orbiting Carbon Observatory’, the spacecraft arrived on November 11 at its launch site on California’s central coast after completing a cross-country trip by truck from its manufacturer, Orbital Sciences Corp. in Dulles, Virginia.
After final tests, the spacecraft will be integrated onto an Orbital Sciences Taurus rocket in preparation for its planned January 2009 launch.
Singapore - Three white tigers at the Singapore Zoo attacked and killed a Malaysian worker Thursday, the zoo said.
Johannesburg - When Zafar Wahid, a project manager with Liberty Life insurance company, was relieved of his car at gunpoint in Johannesburg recently, he knew exactly where to go to get a knock-down replacement.
Baghdad - The Iraqi soldier who killed 4 US soldiers on Wednesday was acting in anger after the Americans mocked him while he was praying, witnesses told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Thursday.
Miami, Nov 13 : Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who was the running mate of Republican presidential candidate John McCain in the Nov 4 poll, got cold vibes from 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls at the Republican governors summit convened to find out the reasons of the recent defeat to Democratic Barack Obama, reported the New York Daily News.
Washington, Nov 13 : NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, has arrived at its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, to begin final launch preparations.
