Berlin: A new-born baby rhinoceros in a Berlin zoo is in plaster after his mother carelessly trod on his foot one day after his birth.
Patna, born last week to Betty and father Belur, will have to wear a plaster cast on his left lower leg for up to five weeks to heal a broken bone. The incident is not the first in the zoo, which now houses seven rhinos. "In 2002, mother Betty, also born in the zoo, killed her first child by treading on the baby shortly after birth," said zoo keeper Ingolf Kastierke.
Zoo keepers had waited in keen anticipation of Betty's second baby, the zoo's second this year. But the morning after birth they noticed the baby was limping. "We assume that the mother had trodden on her son in the middle of the night," said Mr Kastierke. Luckily the injury was easily treated and keepers expect a full recovery.
Forcoli: Weighing in at 416 pounds, Giovanna Guidoni, is not your average beauty contest winner. But Italy's annual Miss Cicciona competition is not your average beauty contest.
To compete in Miss Cicciona, which roughly translates as Miss Chubby, women have to weigh more than 220 pounds. Men hoping to walk off with the title of Mr Ciccione have to be at least 330 pounds. This year, 40 women and five men vied for the title.
"The idea isn't to make fun," said Gianfranco Lazzereschi, one of the organizers of the festival held in the Tuscan town of Forcoli. "We wanted to show that the media image of perfection - being stick-thin - isn't the only way to get recognized."
Tokyo: Officials in western Japan were marvelling at the generosity of a mystery philanthropist who donated a $1.8 million lottery ticket to help victims of recent torrential rainstorms.
In a rare display of charity, a winning lottery ticket for a 200 million yen (€1.5 million) prize was posted to the governor of Fukui prefecture.
"I am sending a lottery ticket that is blessed with luck, hoping that it will be of some help to the people who had the misfortune of suffering damages," the letter said.
Tehran: An Iranian man who lost his keys 16 years ago finally found them - embedded in his leg. The discovery came after the 50-year-old man felt a pain in his leg and X-rays revealed the keys inside. The man told doctors he'd shot himself accidentally 16 years ago, but had no idea how the keys fell into the wound.