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  • Mum finds her baby in grip of a python

    01/07/2013 12:53:54 PM PST · by libstripper · 22 replies
    The Daily Telegraph (AU) ^ | Jan 7, 2013 | MELISSA MATHESON
    A MOTHER woke to find a 1.85m-long python wrapped around her two-year-old daughter yesterday morning. Tess Guthrie, 22, from Lismore on the far north coast, was woken by her cat hissing at 3.30am and discovered the python wrapped three times around her daughter Zara's arm, who was sleeping in the bed with her. At first she thought it was a dream but soon realised the horror and grabbed the snake by the head to pry it off her child, which caused the reptile to bite Zara three times on her left hand.
  • Africans puzzled by Live 8 but hope for change

    07/04/2005 1:48:59 AM PDT · by End Times Sentinel · 17 replies · 555+ views
    Reuters ^ | Sun Jul 3 | Rebecca Harrison
    Africans puzzled by Live 8 but hope for change By Rebecca HarrisonSun Jul 3,10:35 AM ET Few Africans watched the star-studded Live 8 gigs meant to highlight their plight but many said on Sunday any bid to relieve poverty was welcome -- even faraway rock concerts performed for rich whites.Up to 2 billion people watched broadcasts of Saturday's Live 8 concerts, performed on four continents to help draw attention to poverty in Africa and press the world's most powerful leaders to cancel debt, boost aid and scrap unfair trade barriers.Yet in Africa where most people are too poor to own...