Cat Lover (of sorts)

Dogs love nothing more than to chew slippers,boots and bones but one tiny terrier managed to scoff an entire family of toy cats.Little Snowy,a one-year-old white West Highland terrier,weighs just 3.6kg (8lb) but still found room for the five ornaments.

The vet initially thought it was a joke when X-rays clearly revealed a cat peering out of the dogs belly.

We were all stunned.I have been a vet for 10 years and never saw an Xray like this, said Nigel Belgrove.Weve had dogs that have swallowed golf balls and batteries before but Snowy beats them all,hands down, he added.

The terrier began to worry her owner Samantha Reed,42,when she suddenly lost her appetite and started vomiting several times a day.Initially,it was thought Snowy reacted badly to dog food and the vet recommended a diet of rice and chicken.She remained ill so they took urine samples to test for a kidney problem and tried a course of antibiotics.
It was only when they took the Xray that the feline face emerged.The cats were removed last week in a onehour operation and Snowy is now recovering well.

Taiwan Tragedy

Taiwan's navy has appealed for help from local fisherman, offering a cash reward to anyone who finds a torpedo its sailors lost during a drill last week. The offer follows four days of futile searching in the area around the Tsoying base in southern Taiwan, the navy said in a statement on Tuesday.

Any fisherman who snares the German-built SUT torpedo will scoop 30,000 Taiwan dollars (£630).It is the second time submariners aboard the Dutch-made Hai Long, or "Sea Dragon" have lost a torpedo. In 2003 the missing weapon was washed ashore.

Taiwan relies heavily on foreign countries for its weapons, and Beijing annually condemns US sales of missiles and helicopters to Taipei. Under a 1979 Act of Congress, Washington is legally obliged to help Taiwan defend itself.

Taiwan has been ruled by its own government since the Chinese Communist Party took control of mainland China in 1949. Taipei says it needs the latest US military technology to counter the threat posed by the estimated 1000-1500 missiles aimed at the island by China.

Prominent Delay

The aging Frank Dryman, a notorious killer from Montana's past, had hidden in plain sight for so long that he forgot he was a wanted man.
In an exclusive jailhouse interview with The Associated Press, Dryman detailed how he invented a whole new life, with a new family, an Arizona wedding chapel business — and even volunteer work for local civic clubs.
"They just forgot about me," said Dryman, in his first interview since being caught and sent back to the prison he last left in the 1960s. "I was a prominent member of the community."
That is, until the grandson of the man he shot six times in the back came looking.
Dryman had been one step ahead of the law since 1951 when he avoided the hangman's noose, a relic of frontier justice still in use at the time.Less than 20 years later he was out on parole. Not content with that good fortune, he skipped out and evaded authorities for four decades. After a while he even forgot about hiding and signed up for V.A. benefits from his days in the Navy in 1948.
Now the 79-year-old Dryman is back behind bars, likely for what remains of his life. He was caught only after his long-ago victim's grandson got curious and started poking around.

Crushing Fall

In a truly bizarre turn of events, a Hong Kong-based widow from the Ma On Shan district ended up killing a passing pedestrian when she lost her footing and fell from outside her high-rise flat. The elderly and considerably larger woman, Lam, was picking up her washing when she slipped and plunged down from the 27th floor and landed on Chan Kwai-mui, a 51 year old cleaner, who was on her way from work. Kwai-mui was crushed to death under the weight of Lam.

It was a security guard who discovered the aftermath at the bottom of the block where both women were “in a heap”.