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Sumatran tigers have mauled eight people to death in Indonesia. 03 Mar 2009 By Our Foreign Staff and Agencies in Jakarta Two illegal loggers were the latest to be killed, bringing the toll to eight in the last five weeks. The loggers were attacked in their forest hut on Sunday night in the third such incident since late January, accord… read more

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A tiny puppy survived with just cuts and bruises after a woman threw him off a three-storey high balcony during an argument with her boyfriend. Seven week old Rocky was thrown from the balcony in his dog carrier after drunken Sebrina Carty became enraged during a domestic, a court heard. An RSPCA inspector said Carty's actions were 'sickening… read more

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Isle of Man surprised on publication of Atlas of World's languages in danger. The report, published by UNESCO, has included Manx as an "extinct" language. It was largely held that Manx Gaelic died with Ned Maddrell, the Crown dependency's last native speaker, when he passed away in 1974. But since then the language has had something of a ren… read more

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Twycross Zoo in Warwickshire was inundated with job seekers looking for part-time work on Saturday, when the zoo held its annual recruitment open day. By Roya Nikkhah More than three thousand people hoping for a job queued up outside the zoo in Atherstone, Warwickshire, prompting three-mile tailbacks on the nearby A444. Staff at the zoo wer… read more

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Conservationists worried for world's only pink Bottlenose dolphin.The world's only pink Bottlenose dolphin which was discovered in an inland lake in Louisiana, USA, has become such an attraction that conservationists have warned tourists to leave it alone. Charter boat captain Erik Rue, 42, photographed the animal, which is actually an albino, w… read more