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Python eats baby boy
LUCENA: A two-month-old Philippine boy was eaten by a python while sleeping, a police report in this southern town said today. Police reports said the baby, Raul Bacalzo, was sleeping in the bedroom of his family home in Bucal village, Cavite province, when the python allegedly crept into the room and ate him. The boy8217;s mother Marianne Lipos told that she was making dinner when she heard her child cry. When checking on the infant, he had disappeared, she said. She then noticed the snake leaving the house through the kitchen exit and heading to the woods, she told police. The snake and the remains of the boy have not been found.
Jumbo case
DHAKA: A missing elephant tracked down by police sparked a court battle in Bangladesh8217;s northeastern Habiganj district after two residents claimed ownership of the beast, newspapers reported today. Nurul Huq filed a case with police about his missing elephant following which police brought it to the court yesterday after finding itnear a mosque. Another claimant Abdul Latif came to the court armed with his lawyer, sparking a fierce exchange of words between the lawyers over the elephant which was ill, the newspapers reported. Hundreds of people thronged to the court, where finally the local magistrate Shoshi Mohon Ghosh gave the ownership to Huq after he paid a 1,700,000 Taka 36,170 Dollar bond as well as a pledge to ensure proper treatment of the elephant.
For art8217;s sake
LONDON: Some of the biggest names in the art world have been fooled by a literary hoax perpetrated by a British author and the veteran British rocks star David Bowie, a report said today. The Independent newspaper reported how last week the glitterati of New York gathered for a launch party of William Boyd8217;s biography of the apparently rediscovered American artist Nat Tate, where they heard Bowie read extracts. And later today the British art world was also due to gather at a London restaurant for the British launch of the memoir, British papershave also run extracts from the book. But The Independent said the story of how Tate suffered from depression, burned most of his paintings and then jumped to his death from the Staten island ferry in New York aged 31, was fiction. Some of the paintings pictured in the book were by Boyd himself, said the paper, while photographs were from Boyd8217;s own collection. The book was released by 21 publishing, run, among others, by Bowie and British magazine editor Karen Wright, said The Independent. quot;Will Boyd and I were both aware it was a scam but we never meant it maliciously,quot; said Wright. quot;Part of it was, we were very amused that people kept saying yet, I8217;ve heard of him8217;. There is a willingness not to appear foolish, critics are too proud for that.quot;
Young dads
BAMBERG: A newly published study has found that young fathers in Europe are better than their reputation. They go to the pub less often than single men and spend a large part of their free time with their children. These are thefindings of a long-term study carried out by the state institute of family research at the university of Bamberg. The study involved questioning 1,500 young families over a period of six years.
Evita8217;s brooch
NEW YORK: An Argentine flag brooch that once belonged to the country8217;s former First Lady Eva Peron was sold for 992,500 Dollars to an anonymous bidder who won a bidding war with a top Argentine television star. The auction yesterday was part of Christie8217;s magnificent jewels sale of rare diamonds, including several seized in a 1995 drug bust. Susana Gimenez, host of Argentina8217;s top-rated entertainment show, received a cheer from the packed salesroom after she dropped out of the bidding for Peron8217;s diamond-and-sapphire brooch when the price soared passed 900,000 Dollars. A minor actress before she met Juan Peron, Eva Peron virtually co-governed the country after her husband was elected president in 1946.
