Barking dog saves spinning catLONDON: If it had been a cartoon, Hudson the dog would have just grinned gleefully when he saw his arch rival Zoe the cat spinning around inside a burning hot tumble drier.
In real life, Hudson saved Zoe's life by barking until their owner came to her rescue.
``At first I thought Hudson wanted to go outside, but he just kept on barking and staring at the machine,'' said Liz Beaumont, the owner yesterday.
When Beaumont opened the door of the drier, she had to wait several seconds before she could remove the badly-scorched cat because she was too hot to handle. ``Funny thing is, Zoe still hates Hudson and there's no sign of a reconciliation,'' said Beaumont.
`Mobile' SOS
KUALA LUMPUR: Five Malaysian fishermen, who drifted at sea for three days after their boat stalled, were rescued after one of them used his mobile phone to call for help, a newspaper said today.
The men, from the northern island of Langkawi, went to sea on Monday on a
routine fishing trip but got into difficulties when their vessel's engine failed.
One of them managed to put a call through on his mobile phone to his family, who then contacted the marine police, The Sun reported. However, high seas and stormy weather prevented rescuers from finding them until their boat was spotted late on Wednesday about 20 nautical miles off Langkawi, which borders southern Thailand.
China wall
BEIJING: An earthquake that killed 50 people in north China earlier this month left many cracks in the Great Wall, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The magnitude 6.2-quake on January 10 left cracks in the wall in Shangyi, Zhangbei and Wanquan counties of Hebei province, Xinhua quoted yesterday He Yong, director of the Beijing Administration of Cultural Relics, as saying.
The wall in that area was mostly built during the Ming dynasty.
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