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Very carefully, of course. Thanks to intrepid vets, a beloved tiger in Australia can now see her food again.Very carefully, of course. Thanks to intrepid vets, a beloved tiger in Australia can now see her food again. Dr. Cameron Whittaker is a veterinarian in Sydney, Australia, who specializes in eye care for animals. Most of his regular patients have names like Fluffy or Buddy. Then there is Indira, a 220-pound Bengal tiger, whose failing vision, along with Whittaker’s efforts to save it, became a challenging nine-month quest Down Under. She faced a delicate surgery, during with multiple possibilities for things...

Maurice Sendak’s poetic, luxuriantly illustrated Where the Wild Things Are is revered as a childhood classic, but I think it speaks more powerfully to grown-ups than to children, or at least children of the age for picture books. I’ve met grown-ups who don’t like it, but I suspect they wouldn’t have liked it as kids either. If a child doesn't like it, there is always the chance he will grow into it a few years down the road. If kids do like it, it may be that they grasp that there is something there they don’t quite understand, something waiting...

<p>At least three men reportedly were taken into federal custody in two Pensacola malls as the FBI and the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service initiated a nationwide sweep Wednesday.</p> <p>Witnesses said plain-clothes agents closed Intrigue jewelry vendors at Cordova and University malls, Wild Things at University and possibly other shops.</p>

A desperate patient pulled his own teeth with pliers - because he could not get registered with an NHS dentist. George Daulat, 47, downed a pint of vodka before carrying out the DIY surgery. Earlier this year, queues of hundreds of people formed in his home town of Scarborough, north Yorkshire, in a rush by people to register with a dentist. George,who suffers from severe rheumatoid arthritis, said: 'People will think I am crazy but they weren't living with the pain. 'In the end, I couldn't take any more. I had pliers. They were old and rusty but I knew...