Supermum dog plunges three stories to feed hungry pups!

October 14th, 2009 UN: World hunger on the rise for a decadeROME — Declining aid and investment in agriculture caused a steady increase in world hunger for more than a decade before the economic crisis pushed the ranks of the hungry to a record 1 billion, a U.N. food agency said Wednesday.

September 23rd, 2009 LONDON - A Bengal tiger that climbed a 15ft activity tower is too afraid to come down, prompting zoo authorities to dub him "scaredy-cat". Two-year-old Tanvir easily scaled the activity tower that has been designed with branch-like platforms to test the skill and sharpness of tigers but is now too scared to come down.

September 11th, 2009 TORONTO - In a bizarre incident, a woman fell to her death here while hunting for ghosts in a Toronto building that is said to be haunted. Police said the 29-year-old woman fell three storeys to her death Friday morning at a building not far from the city centre while she and a man were hunting for ghosts.

August 31st, 2009 LONDON - A dog owner has at least eight reasons to smile after her white pedigree poodle delivered eight black pups near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK. Owner Carol Marsden helped Sukanto My Fair Lady give birth to four girls and four boys at her home.

August 25th, 2009 PETALING JAYA - The story of former Malaysian model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, who is to be whipped in public for drinking beer, has caught international attention. The news of Shukarno's impending sentence has thrust her into the blog chats across Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Germany, Britain and the US, The Star reports.

August 13th, 2009 LONDON - A five year-old obese Indian girl, who is suffering from a suspected hormonal imbalance, is eating herself to death. Suman Khatun, from West Bengal, is so insatiably hungry that she devours over 10 kilograms of rice, 24 eggs, six litres of milk and five kilos of potatoes in just a week.

July 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Mohammed Sharif, the owner of a cycle repair shop in Uttar Pradesh, seeks out unclaimed bodies, arranges a casket, calls a priest and gives a decent burial to the dead. In 1990, police had disposed of the body of his murdered son after they failed to establish his identity.

June 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The global financial crisis may leave over a billion people hungry every day this year, says a new estimate by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). According to FAO, a United Nations organisation that leads international efforts to defeat hunger, the number of hungry people globally will rise from 915 million in 2008 to 1.02 billion in 2009.

June 19th, 2009 ROME - Some 1.02 billion people are likely to go hungry in 2009, a UN agency said Friday, blaming the "historic" high figure on the global economic crisis. In 2008, the Rome-based UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) revised its estimate of hungry people from 963 million to 915 million, due to a better-than-expected global food supply.

May 26th, 2009 LONDON - Farmers have been advised to use ear protection when feeding pigs, to protect them from 'deafening' squeals. The noise made by pigs during mealtimes can reach more than 100 decibels, louder than a chainsaw or powerdrill, the Health and Safety Executive has warned.

May 7th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The promotional campaign of Tourism Queensland's 'Best Job in the World' has won the top prize at the One Show awards in New York. The One Show awards are one of the global advertising industry's most prestigious awards programs.

May 7th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The promotional campaign of Tourism Queensland's 'Best Job in the World' has won the top prize at the One Show awards in New York. The One Show awards are one of the global advertising industry's most prestigious awards programs.

April 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese farmer has much to complaint after her cow started to feed on its own milk, leaving her empty-handed. Owner Guli Nisha, from Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, said the animal had found a unique way of being self-sufficient by turning its head around and drinking its own milk, reports the China Daily.

April 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) young controversial leader Varun Gandhi emerged as the new favourite of prime time TV news in the past two weeks, says a study. The six-channel study, conducted by the media lab of Centre for Media Studies (CMS), also claims that the young politician edged out even the much-talked about Indian Premier League (IPL) in terms of news coverage.

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bollywood filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar has denied a media report that he would be directing a serial for a popular TV channel, but has admitted that his production company has undertaken the project. According to a report published in a leading Mumbai daily, Bollywood directors Vikram Bhatt, Mahesh Manjrekar, Ashok Pandit, and Shriram Raghavan apart from Bhandarkar have been approached by a TV channel to direct serials for them.