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A male chimpanzee in a Swedish zoo planned hundreds of stone-throwing attacks on zoo visitors, according to researchers. Keepers at Furuvik Zoo found that the chimp collected and stored stones that he would later use as missiles. Further, the chimp learned to recognise how and when parts of his concrete enclosure could be pulled apart to fashion further projectiles. The findings are reported in the journal Current Biology. There has been scant evidence in previous research that animals can plan for future events.

NEW YORK - New York Police Department officers are blasting a ruling by a federal judge preventing them from searching demonstrator's bads outside the GOP convention later this year. Judge Robert Sweet, a federal judge in Manhattan, pronounced yesterday that searches of blankets and bulky bags and backpacks may not be searched en masse in absence of any "specific threat". The ruling also limits the number of streets the NYPD may close around Madison Square Garden and prohibits cops from "penning" protestors behind metal barricades. Sweet stated that the finding was an attempt to give definition to a resolution which...