Man 80 years,girl 12 years Marry

12 years old unadult girl named Shabana kidnapped from Karachi and comple her to marry with 80 years old man forcly.it is totally unjustice and not in accordance with the preeches of Islam.

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Composted cane toads to feed Sugar cane

Cane toads will be turned into compost for sugar cane farmers by a Queensland waste management company.

The company is asking Cairns residents to capture the pests and bring them to its 'toad day out' this weekend.

Plant manager Haydn Slattery says the company is hoping to collect about 100 kilograms of toads, which will be humanely killed in preparation to be used as the raw materials for compost.

"Over a three-day period we'll take the material into the plant, it'll break down microbially into compost, and in four weeks time after that, it'll end up in cane farms," he said.

"Finally after 80-odd years of cane toads being around after being introduced as something that's going to be of use to cane farmers, 80 years down the track they're being turned into compost and finally becoming a benefit to our farmers."

Cane toads were introduced into north Queensland in 1935 to control pest beetles, and quickly spread along vast tracts of Queensland coastline.

The cane toads did little to control the beetles, and have become a widespread pest themselves in Queensland, northern New South Wales the Northern Territory and small parts of Western Australia.

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India develops Space curries

Indian scientists are looking to develop a curry fit for space, as the country plans its first manned mission outside the earth's atmosphere.

Two Indian air force personnel are set to be blasted into orbit by the end of the next decade as part of an ambitious $3.6 billion project that follows the country's successful unmanned lunar probe launch last year.

Dr AS Bawa, director of the Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL), said food scientists, biochemists and microbiologists had already begun identifying dishes that will make the pilots feel at home as they hurtle through space.

"It will have to be in freeze-dried form for the sake of lightness and compactness," he said.

"We have started work on curries like chicken and mutton as well as spinach, peas and mushrooms."

Breakfast could include "upma" - a southern Indian dish made from refined wheat or semolina - to be eaten from a squeezable tube.

"The main difference will be in terms of the packaging," Dr Bawa said.

"Most of these things will have to be the kind where you pour water onto it and eat it without a spoon. It may have to be consumed through a straw."

The DFRL, set up in the 1960s in the southern city of Mysore, mainly provides lightweight rations for India's military but was previously involved in developing food for United States and Russian space missions.

Dr Bawa admitted the food is hardly gourmet and will not be as fiery as Indians enjoy on earth, and for good reason.

"These foods have to be readily digestible," he said

"They shouldn't put too much strain on the stomachs of the astronauts, both from the fat and spice point of view."

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Thirsty Camels 'turning the taps on' in central Australia

Camels are coming into communities in central Australia and turning on the taps, the Macdonnell Shire Council says.

The shire has applied to the Federal Government for a $4.5 million slice of infrastructure funding to build camel-proof boundaries around 14 communities.

Wayne Wright from the shire says thirsty camels are causing significant damage.

"In a number of our communities it's quite common for camels to enter the community and if there are any taps adjacent to houses they're quite capable of either turning the taps on or knocking the taps off so they get water."

The intention is to put cattle grids at the entrances of the communities and place fencing around them.

The fencing would also protect the communities from other feral animals, such as donkeys and horses.

Mr Wright says the animals rip up plants and thwart efforts to improve the aesthetics of the communities.

"The big issue for us is should we try to do any beautification works in our communities - tree planting, grassing of areas.

"Unless we can limit the access to those areas, we are going to be wasting our money."

The shire is expecting to find out if the application has been successful next month.

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Pole vaulter runs naked Through Paris

A French pole vaulting champion has run naked with his pole through the streets of Paris and posted the video on the internet, hoping to draw attention to his quest for a new sponsorship deal.

Romain Mesnil, who won a silver medal at the 2007 Athletics World Championships in Osaka, used to be sponsored by US sports brand Nike but says his contract expired last year and was not renewed.

"It was probably for budgetary and strategic reasons. It's the crisis," he wrote on his website.

In his video, Mesnil runs with his pole as if preparing for a vault at tourist spots like Montmartre and the Pont des Arts across the River Seine.

A black square has been added to the footage to cover his private parts.

Many athletes have reported difficulties obtaining corporate sponsorship as companies cut costs because of the global economic downturn.

The video has succeeded in drawing attention to Mesnil's plight, at least in France. It was broadcast on primetime state television news bulletins.

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Guantanamo 'soooo beautiful!' Miss Universe Says

Miss Universe 2008, Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela, has caused a stir after gushing over her visit to the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, home of the "war on terror" prison camp.

Mendoza - who works for the Miss Universe organisation, a NBC Universal and Donald Trump Partnership - visited Guantanamo as part of a USO (United Service Organisations) tour that takes entertainers to visit US troops.

"This week, Guantanamo!!! It was an incredible experience," wrote the 22 year-old on her Miss Universe-sponsored personal blog.

"We had a wonderful time, this truly was a memorable trip!"

Marines and soldiers showed Mendoza and Miss USA 2008 Crystle Stewart around the base, then took them on "a ride around the land and it was a loooot of fun!"

"We visited the Detainees (sic) camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting," she wrote.

"The water in Guantanamo Bay is soooo beautiful! It was unbelievable ... I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful."

The Guantanamo prison opened after the September 11, 2001 terrorism attacks in the United States as a place to house "enemy combatant" suspects.

Mendoza's posting was quickly struck from her blog - not before the New York Times posted it on its website - and replaced by a statement from the president of the Miss Universe organisation, Paula Shugart.

The comments "were in reference to the hospitality she received while meeting the members of the US military and their families who are stationed in Guantanamo," Ms Shugart wrote.

Mendoza and Stewart have "travelled to many locations and many bases around the globe including Iraq, Afghanistan, Japan, Korea and most recently, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba," Ms Shugart said.

Nevertheless, local media has pounced on Mendoza's comments.

Globovision reporter Ana Karina Villalba said it was necessary to better educate beauty queens - of which Venezuela is famous for producing - so that they know what is happening around the world.

"In Venezuela we should have broadly educated misses," Ms Villalba said, remembering that a few years ago a beauty queen said she loved "William Shakespeare's music".

On local blogs, comments ranged from "Let's go vacation in Guantanamo because it's soooo much fun!" to "We'd have to lock Dayanita up".

The Guantanamo prison is one of the most controversial symbols of former president George W Bush's legacy, where former detainees and human rights activists say the inmates are tortured.

The United States set up a naval base in Guantanamo after the 1898 Spanish-American war, when Cuba was freed of Spanish colonial rule, then obtained a long-term lease on the site.

The Cuban government that came to power after the 1959 revolution however does not accept US control, and wants the bay under Havana's control.

US President Barack Obama in January ordered the prison camp closed within one year.

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Cat found alive after 5 weeks under Rubble

A cat named Felix was found alive and well beneath the rubble of a six-storey building in Cologne that collapsed five weeks ago, the fire brigade in the German city said.

The 12-year-old cat was in surprisingly good health, authorities said.

He was found beneath the city archives building that collapsed on March 3.

Rescue workers were clearing away the rubble from the ruins, in which two people were killed, when they spotted a pair of small paws.

"The men lifted some concrete blocks when suddenly a little cat came to light," said fire brigade spokesman Dietmar Paust.

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Man bites monster snake in hours-long Battle

A Kenyan man bit a python that wrapped him in its coils and hauled him up a tree in a struggle that lasted hours, local media said on Wednesday.

Farm manager Ben Nyaumbe was working at the weekend when the serpent, apparently hunting for livestock, struck in the Malindi area of Kenya's Indian Ocean coast.

"I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the body of a huge python," he told the Daily Nation newspaper.

When the snake coiled itself round his upper body, Mr Nyaumbe resorted to desperate measures: "I had to bite it."

The python dragged him up a tree, but when it eased its grip, Mr Nyaumbe said he was able to take a mobile phone out of his pocket and phone for help.

When his supervisor came with a policeman, Mr Nyaumbe smothered the snake's head with his shirt, while the rescuers tied it with a rope and pulled.

"We both came down, landing with a thud," said Mr Nyaumbe, who survived with damaged lips and bruising.

The snake escaped from the three sacks it was bundled into.

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Escaped snakes Ground Qantas plane

Qantas had to take a plane out of service when baby snakes went missing from a package being carried in the cargo hold earlier this week.

Twelve baby pythons were in the cargo of a flight from Alice Springs to Melbourne on Tuesday, but on arrival only eight were left.

When staff realised the snakes had apparently escaped the aircraft was taken out of service and fumigated, causing delays for passengers.

Qantas corporate manager David Epstein says the snakes' escape was a mystery because the consignment had been properly packaged.

"Our people called in a reptile expert and there was a suggestion that some of the baby pythons had eaten the other pythons because apparently it is not uncommon for baby pythons to eat each other," he said.

Qantas staff then weighed the remaining baby pythons to determine if they were heavier, but they were not.

"The only conclusion we could draw was four of them had broken free of the packaging," Mr Epstein said.

He says the baby pythons are about the length of a pencil and slightly skinnier.

"We thought the best thing to do was to call in a wildlife expert, and determine if they're endangered or not.

"They're not endangered, so a decision was made to take the plane out of service and fumigate it, so if these snakes ever turn up on one of our aircraft, they will be very much dead snakes."

The snakes remain missing.

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How to raise flood Awareness in France

A giant inflatable mouse floats on the Rhone river on April 18, 2009 in Lyon, France. It was part of an artistic happening by architect Jacques Rival, aimed at informing people on the risks of floods.

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