Cow transport

A doctor in Pakistan’s Punjab province was suspended from service for using an ambulance to transport a calf from a market to his home. The doctor of the rural health center at Tanda, located 30 km from Gujrat city, used the ambulance to transport the calf he bought at the cattle market in Kunjah on Saturday, officials said. Police stopped the ambulance while the doctor was returning to his home in Tanda and found the calf inside. Soon after, district administration chief Sardar Akram Javed directed the Health Department to suspend the doctor. Executive district officer Muneer Ahmed said he had ordered an inquiry into the matter and suspended the doctor. The image shows the black and white calf tied to a bar at the back of the ambulance.

Outnumbered

New Zealanders have long endured jokes about being outnumbered 20 to-1 by sheep, but it seems the population has a new farm animal majority to worry about: cows. A record 5.8 million dairy cattle were counted in the year ended June 2009, Statistics New Zealand said that's more than one animal for each of the country's 4.3 million citizens. The dairy herd's expansion was due to the conversion of sheep and other farms to the more lucrative dairy industry and to the growth in the number of milking cows in existing herds. In 2009, it had fewer than eight sheep per person.