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Nature: Donkeys and elephants

We leave you this Sunday Morning in the company of donkeys, and elephants. Videographers: Carl Mrozek and Cate Poole.

The hour between donkey and elephant

Godspeed to traders manning desks tonight 🫡

World - Financial Times - 3 days ago

Freed, after 26 years, for a murder they didn't commit

Bestselling novelist John Grisham has co-authored a new work of non-fiction: "Framed," a collection of stories about people wrongfully convicted of crimes and the fight to exonerate them. Grisham ...

More prisoners freed early to ease overcrowding

Some 1,100 prisoners will be released as ministers launch a review of sentencing that could see new types of punishment outside of jails.

Kenyan activist freed after night in police custody

World - Yahoo News - October 28

Jailed teenager freed after appealing riot sentence

Dylan Willis, 18, had his 14 month sentence suspended for two years by Court of Appeal judges.

AP PHOTOS: An elephant procession for Dussehra draws a crowd in the former Mysore kingdom

The spectators were getting restless after hours of waiting when a drizzle began. But an announcer over scratchy loudspeakers urged them in Kannada, the language of India's Karnataka state, to be ...

World - ABC News - October 14

Train hits and kills 2 wild elephants in Sri Lanka

Authorities in Sri Lanka say a train carrying thousands of gallons of fuel hit a herd of wild elephants in the country's northeast, killing two of the giant mammals and injuring one other as two of ...

World - ABC News - October 19

13 Best White Elephant Gifts (2024): Legos, Desk Accessories

Bring the gift everyone will want to win from this year's holiday party, from a desk organizer shaped like a pear to magnets they'll wish they could eat.

Tech - Wired - 4 days ago

This Elephant Uses a Hose to Give Herself a Shower Every Day

In the Berlin Zoo, Mary demonstrated another example of clever elephantine tool use while another animal exhibited a form of mischief with a hose that resembled a prank.

Science - The New York Times - 14 hours ago

Elephants can wash with a hose – and sabotage shower time, scientists say

An elephant at Berlin zoo used its trunk to interrupt flow of water from hose used by another elephant. If you get frustrated by the shower hog in your house you’re not alone: research suggests ...

World - The Guardian - 14 hours ago

Wife of Pakistan's imprisoned former premier Imran Khan freed on bail

The wife of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan was released from a high-security prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Thursday, a day after a court granted her bail in a ...

World - ABC News - October 24

Newly freed Steve Bannon says time in prison 'empowered him'

Donald Trump adviser and rightwing podcast host Steve Bannon to be released from prison a week before the election.

Politics - NBC News - October 29

Sex and taboos: how Sigmund Freud’s ideas freed secrets of the female psyche

An exhibition at the psychoanalyst’s London home and two new stage shows have reopened the debate on women’s desires. Female psychosexual drama of the classical kind is currently stalking the ...

World - The Guardian - 5 days ago

Nigeria drops treason charges against children after outcry

World - Yahoo News - 3 days ago

Kenya relocates 50 elephants to a larger park. A sign poaching is under control, officials say

World - Yahoo News - October 14

Kenya relocates 50 elephants to larger park; sign poaching under control: Officials

Kenya is moving 50 elephants from a national reserve to a larger park after overpopulation overwhelmed the ecosystem, in what has been hailed as a conservation success

World - ABC News - October 15

Video: Watch painted elephants march and drones light up the sky at the ancient Hindu festival of Dussehra

World - Yahoo News - October 16

Pandas en route to National Zoo after a year

Two new giant pandas are en route to the National Zoo, according to multiple reports. CNN reported Monday that the pair of 3-year-old pandas, named Bao Li and Qing Bao, had left a southwestern ...

Politics - The Hill - October 14

Nine monkeys die mysteriously at Hong Kong zoo

Zoo authorities in Hong Kong are investigating after nine monkeys of various species died of mysterious causes since Sunday.

9 Monkeys Die in a Hong Kong Zoo

The zoo partially closed after the deaths, which occurred over two days and included members of a critically endangered species.

World - The New York Times - October 15

Pandas headed to National Zoo after arrival in US

Two giant pandas have successfully made it to the U.S. and will find their new home at the National Zoo in Washington. Bao Li and Qing Bao will travel to the zoo from Virginia’s Washington Dulles ...

Politics - The Hill - October 15

Zoo faces animal welfare and bullying allegations

Managers deny "each and every allegation" by former staff, who hand the BBC images of injured animals.

5 Provisions in China’s Panda Contracts With U.S. Zoos

Normally confidential contracts show that U.S. zoos are accepting increasingly strict terms governing panda cams and public statements.

World - The New York Times - October 21

Endangered parrots Lily and Margot escape from London Zoo

Blue-throated macaws Lily and Margot took flight on Monday and have not been seen since.

Escaped macaws found safe and returned to zoo

Lily and Margot are traced to a field 60 miles away in Cambridgeshire, a week after flying off.

'Incredibly rare' pygmy hippo born at Edinburgh zoo

Pygmy hippos are native to West Africa and experts believe there are only about 2,500 left in the wild.

Yahya Sinwar’s death raises ceasefire hopes and is a ‘moment of justice’ says Biden – Middle East crisis live

US president tells Netanyahu ‘let’s make this moment an opportunity to seek a path to peace, a better future in Gaza without Hamas’. At least 28 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a ...

World - The Guardian - October 18

Freed American Paul Whelan opens up about life inside a Russian labor camp

Paul Whelan, who was arrested in Russia in 2018, got little sleep and used secret cellphones to communicate with prisoners sent to the frontlines in Ukraine.

American Paul Whelan gives first interview since being freed from Russian prison

Paul Whelan, a Marine veteran who was imprisoned in a Russian labor camp for nearly six years until being released after a prisoner swap this summer, tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" ...

Woman freed from car after three days as Spain flood deaths reach 211

World - Yahoo News - 6 days ago

Part of Hong Kong zoo closed after 8 monkeys found dead

Officials in Hong Kong are investigating the deaths of eight monkeys in the region's oldest zoo, including 3 critically endangered Cotton-top Tamarins.

Pandover complete: China's furry envoys arrive in D.C. for a 10-year mission

A pair of giant pandas left China on Monday for the National Zoo, taking up residence in the nation’s capital weeks before the U.S. presidential election.

Pandas from China en route to Washington, D.C.'s National Zoo

A pair of giant pandas is set to arrive at the National Zoo on Tuesday less than a year after the Washington zoo sent Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji back to China.

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