Leopard Dead After Messing Up With Granny

This happened a few weeks ago in Uttarakhand -- a north Indian state which hugs the Himalayas -- after it attacked her, broke all its teeth and gave up. Granny used her sickle in the toughest of fights which lasted almost half an hour. Thousands lose their lives in India every year after encountering wild animals which are increasingly disorientated by the loss of their original habitat as human settlement expands.

And today a 20-year old man fell into a White Tiger's enclosure at the Delhi zoo while trying to click a picture and eventually lost his life. Some witnesses say the big cat didn't do anything for a good 10 minutes while the man pleaded for his life but dragged him only after people started throwing stones and sticks.

Stray Dogs To Join Work-for-Food Scheme

Those of New Delhi that is. A number of them will undergo training before working as guard dogs in the police force. The reward will be food. That's a smart idea because it will take them off the streets of the Indian capital -- which means fewer cases of fatal rabies -- and at the same time improve security of India's second most populous city.

There are as many as 200 million stray dogs in the world.

Delhi Gang Rape Victim Has Died

At Mt Elisabeth Hospital in Singapore this morning. Nirbhaya, 23, was beaten, raped and thrown out of a moving bus by a gang of six men on December 16. They had first fooled the woman and her friend into believing that their bus was public transport.

This horrific crime has outraged the billion-people nation, sparked numerous protests and claimed as collateral at least one other life. Four of the perpetrators have already been arrested with the parents of one of them agreeing that his son should be sentenced. Sonia Gandhi has promised prompt justice.