A young girl has been killed by a lion while relieving herself at night at the back of a hut in a rural part of Zimbabwe, a police spokesman told the state-linked Chronicle newspaper.
A Japanese woman died last year of a tick-borne disease after being bitten by a stray cat, Japan's health ministry says, in what could be the first such mammal-to-human transmission.
Passengers on an American Airlines flight complained of headaches, became nauseous and had to be taken off the plane after someone “passed gasâ€, local media reported.
A lot of women might become paranoid if their attractive best friend showed an interest in their man - but one vlogger has made the bizarre decision to invite her bestie into the bedroom with them.
There was pandemonium at a Tema Court on Monday when the sitting judge took to his heels, after the police fired warning shots to prevent some prisoners from escaping.
A baboon interfered with electricity installations in Zambia’s tourist capital, Livingstone, and cut power supply to about 50,000 customers.
The animal managed to access a power station in the area on Sunday, and tampered with high voltage machines that supply electricity to the southern and western provinces of Zambia, according to Henry Kapata, the spokesman for the country’s power utility, Zesco.
He said Livingstone's 28,000 residents and a further 22,000 people in the region were completely without power for about six hours while repair works were carried out.
Mr Kapata also told the BBC:It [the baboon] received a massive electricity shock but as you know baboons are highly insulated by nature and it survived with severe burns. Had it been a human being, it would have died.â€
The Zesco spokesman said the baboon’s electricity shock was caught on CCTV:
 If it were a human being, it would have been prosecuted for vandalism and faced a minimum 10 years in jail with a maximum 25 yearsâ€.
Mr Kapata said power has since been restored with the animal handed over to local wildlife authorities for treatment.
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge has sentenced a 26-year-old California man to 16 years in prison for killing 21 cats, some of which he lured from people's homes.
Robert Roy Farmer pleaded guilty last year to 21 felony counts of animal cruelty and one count each of misdemeanor battery and being under the influence.
The cats began mysteriously disappearing from San Jose's Cambrian Park neighborhood in September 2015. Then cats began turning up dead, the Mercury News of San Jose reported Friday.
Farmer was arrested on October 8, 2015, as he slept in his car, CBS San Francisco reported. San Jose police found an unidentified orange tabby dead curled up in the center console, along with chunks of fur, blood, fur-covered gloves and a hunting knife.
But this open-air Swiss attraction has hundreds of people queuing up to stay, despite it having no ceiling, walls, toilet or indeed any facilities at all.
The Null Stern hotel is solely a double bed, with a nightstand and lamps, perched on the top of a mountain.
While reservations can be cancelled at short notice due to bad weather (unsurprisingly) every night available at the hotel is currently booked.
For the cost of SFR 250 (£191) per night, guests are immersed in nature at 6,463 feet above sea level in the Graubunden mountains.
Though the closest bathroom is a public toilet a ten minute walk away, guests will have a butler on hand to welcome them and serve them a salami sandwich and coffee in the morning. But would you give it a go
It looks more like a film set than a hotel. But this open-air Swiss attraction has hundreds of people queuing up to stay
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This is in spite of it having no ceiling, walls, toilet or indeed any facilities at all - though the views more than make up for it
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The Null Stern hotel, pictured being installed, is solely a double bed, with a nightstand and lamps, perched on the top of a mountain
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While reservations can be cancelled at short notice due to bad weather (unsurprisingly) every night available at the hotel is currently booked
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For the cost of SFR 250 (£191) per night, guests are immersed in nature at 6,463 feet above sea level in the Graubunden mountains
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Though the closest bathroom is a public toilet a ten minute walk away, guests will have a butler on hand to welcome them and serve them a salami sandwich and coffee in the morning
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Before checking in, guests are forewarned that while the room is available every night between spring and autumn, their booking can be cancelled at the last minute should the weather go south
 According to Cameroonians who shared the photos online, the awful incident took place at a public school in Baham in the Western region of Cameroon recently.