US news blogColoradoTranquilized black bear falls safely from tree on University of Colorado campusTo the amusement of onlookers, bear tumbles onto pads set up by wildlife officials, who then released it in the Rocky MountainsNo, this is not a bear bouncing on a trampoline, although it certainly resembles one. This picture in fact shows the animal falling safely from a tree after being tranquilized.
The black bear had wandered onto the University of Colorado campus on Thursday, where it had padded around a university residence hall for some time before climbing a tree.
Tiananmen Square protests 1989 This article is more than 13 years old'Tiananmen Square' cartoon removed from Southern Metropolis Daily websiteThis article is more than 13 years oldA cartoon some say refers to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre has been removed from the website of one of China's most assertive newspapers, just two days before the anniversary.
The Southern Metropolis Daily published a series of cartoons for International Children's Day on Tuesday.
AlbinismInterview‘A fire inside me’: the Zambian singer who overcame prejudice to change attitudes to albinismSarah JohnsonJohn Chiti was spurned by his father and survived a brutal attack for his body parts, but changed his life with music. His story is the inspiration for a powerful new Netflix drama
There’s a painful scene in Netflix’s new drama, Can You See Us?, when the protagonist, Joseph, is attacked by men who pin him down and hack at his leg with a knife.
Liam Costello, 19, is the youngest and only Australian to win the Irish Dance World Championships three times consecutively. Photograph: Carly Earl/The GuardianLiam Costello started Irish dancing a century and a half after his ancestors emigrated. Now the Sydney teen is a triple world champ
by Elissa BlakeTriple world champions are few and far between. Teenaged ones rarer still. You can find one of them working in his parents’ plumbing supplies shop in suburban Sydney every Saturday morning when he’s not training, or six days a week in the off-season.
Hillel Schenker: Sometimes the terrible tragedy of war is encapsulated in a single lost life. Such a moment happened on Saturday evening, when it became known that Staff Sergeant Uri Grossman, 20, had been killed when his tank was hit by an anti-tank missile in southern Lebanon.
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