Two Barbary lions are settling into a new home at a zoo in the UK in the hope that they will breed.
Layla and Jabir have joined Howletts Wild Animal Park, near Canterbury, Kent, from Port Lympne, near Ashford, and are settling in well, according to a zoo spokesman. They are the first Barbary lions to reside at the park since it opened in 1975.
Barbary or Atlas lions are a sub-species that have been extinct in the wild since the 1920s. But the king of Morocco kept lions from the Atlas region in the royal menagerie until the 1970s when they were transferred to Rabat Zoo as part of an international breeding programme.
Frequent flier is flasher
An airline passenger stripped naked at Portland Airport in Oregon as a protest against security scanners.
John Brennan’s actions caused some passengers to cover their eyes and their children’s eyes while others looked, laughed and took photos. Two screening lanes were temporarily closed.
He was arrested and said as a frequent flier he stripped as a form of protest against guards whom he felt were harassing him.
Jacob Zuma to wed again
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South African President Jacob Zuma will marry his fourth wife next weekend.
Mr Zuma will formalise his relationship with his fiancèe, Ms Bongi Ngema according to presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj. Mr Zuma, a known polygamist, divorced Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa’s candidate for the African Union top post, in 1998. Another wife, Kate, committed suicide in 2000.
“The President currently has three wives. This will be his fourth wife,” Mr Maharaj said. Mr Zuma, who turned 70 last Thursday, is believedto have fathered around 20 children.
The picture shows South African President Jacob Zuma (right) and his partner Gloria Bongi Ngema (left), posing with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni Sarkozy, in Paris last year.
Vessel ‘may be war grave’
A suspected submerged submarine was discovered in Northern Ireland.
Environment Minister Alex Attwood has viewed sonar images of the vessel in Lough Foyle, near Londonderry, and warned it may be a war grave. Londonderry was one of the most important naval bases during the WWII and was crucial to ensuring Allied success in the Battle of the Atlantic.
Mr Attwood said, “It is unusual that there appears to be no record of the circumstances behind this situation. I have also asked that all agencies work... to create certainty about the identity of and the reason why the submarine/boat is in the current location.”
“There may be unexploded ordnance which means there are potential risks,” he added.
Graduation given go-ahead
A Philippines court has ordered a Catholic girls’ school to allow five students to attend graduation ceremonies after they were barred over photos on Facebook that showed them wearing bikinis.
Judge Wilfredo Navarro, of Cebu City, issued a restraining order against St Theresa’s College High School, calling its decision to ban the students from the ceremonies un-Christian and unlawful.