Walter Palmer, a Minnesota dentist who
sparked an angry firestorm by killing Cecil, a famous and protected lion
on a big game hunt in Zimbabwe, settled a sexual harassment claim
against him in 2009 for $127,500.
A stoat has been caught on camera taking on three rooks in a fight at a wildlife center near Plymouth, Devon.
The tiny mammal was seen repeatedly fighting off the huge, bemused birds at Wembury Marine Center.
It bravely confronted them time and again, even leaping from the ground
at points in a bid to get to the much larger animals.
Although it looks like the stoat is attacking the birds experts say it
most probably displaying defensive behavior.
A spokesman for Devon Wildlife Trust said: "Stoats on the south Devon
coast will prey on small mammals mostly, rabbits and smaller rodent
species.
A bull "acting aggressively" caused campers to climb up trees to seek
safety as it rampaged through a caravan park in Australia's Northern
Territory before being shot by police.
"I went to shoo him and he turned around and had a go at me and put me up on the back of the ute."
Mr Coutts said police were called and were trying to coax the bull back to where it came from when things turned for the worse.
"It turned around and tried to attack the police car so they shot him," he said.
Superintendent Muldoon said the animal was a "local bull" and owned by someone in the community.
An orphaned pine marten is being cared for after taking refuge through a
cat flap, helping himself to food and settling down for a nap.
An Arizona man allegedly tried to kill another man with a rattlesnake,
but the snake would not bite.
Nathaniel Buck Harrison, 38, of Oracle, entered a person's home on July
23 and accused a man of being a "rat" and for sending his friend to
prison, according to the Pinal County Sheriff's Office.
He then allegedly hit the 53-year-old victim over the head with a board,
breaking it in two pieces, and said he was going to kill him. | 902 | The Aghlabid rulers of Ifriqiyah (modern day Tunisia) capture Taormina, Sicily. | |
| 1096 | The crusaders under Peter the Hermit reach Constantinople. | |
| 1464 | Piero de Medici succeeds his father, Cosimo, as ruler of Florence. | |
| 1664 | The Turkish army is defeated by French and German troops at St. Gotthard, Hungary. | |
| 1689 | James II’s siege of Londonderry, Ireland, ends in failure. James’ force had suffered some 8,000 casualties to the defenders’ 3,600. | |
| 1740 | Thomas Arne’s song "Rule Britannia" is performed for the first time. | |
| 1759 | British and Hanoverian armies defeat the French at the Battle of Minden, Germany. | |
| 1791 | Robert Carter III, a Virginia plantation owner, frees all 500 of his slaves in the largest private emancipation in U.S. history. An 1839 mutiny aboard a Spanish ship in Cuban waters raised basic questions about freedom and slavery in the United States. | |
| 1798 | Admiral Horatio Nelson routs the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile at Aboukir Bay, Egypt. | |
| 1801 | The American schooner Enterprise captures the Barbary cruiser Tripoli.Often venturing into harm’s way, America’s most famous sailing ship, the Constitution, twice came close to oblivion. | |
| 1834 | Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire. | |
| 1864 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant gives general Philip H. Sheridan the mission of clearing the Shenandoah Valley of Confederate forces.After nearly 10 months of trench warfare, Confederate resistance at Petersburg, Virginia, suddenly collapsed. | |
| 1872 | The first long-distance gas pipeline in the U.S. is completed. Designed for natural gas, the two-inch pipe ran five miles from Newton Wells to Titusville, Pennsylvania. | |
| 1873 | San Francisco’s first cable cars begin running, operated by Hallidie’s Clay Street Hill Railroad Company. | |
| 1880 | Sir Frederick Roberts frees the British Afghanistan garrison of Kandahar from Afghan rebels. | |
| 1893 | A machine for making shredded wheat breakfast cereal is patented. | |
| 1914 | Germany declares war on Russia. | |
| 1937 | The Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany becomes operational.The Nuremberg Trial brought high-ranking Nazis to justice. | |
| 1939 | Synthetic vitamin K is produced for the first time. | |
| 1941 | The Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo plane makes its first flight. | |
| 1942 | Ensign Henry C. White, while flying a J4F Widgeon plane, sinks U-166 as it approaches the Mississippi River, the first U-boat sunk by the U.S. Coast Guard. | |
| 1943 | Over 177 B-24 Liberator bombers attack the oil fields in Ploesti, Rumania, for a second time. | |
| 1944 | The Polish underground begins an uprising against the occupying German army, as the Red Army approaches Warsaw. | |
| 1946 | President Harry S Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission. | |
| 1950 | Lead elements of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division arrive in Korea from the United States. | |
| 1954 | The Geneva Accords divide Vietnam into two countries at the 17th parallel. | |
| 1957 | US and Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). | |
| 1960 | Singer Chubby Checker releases "The Twist," creating a new dance craze. The song had been released by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters the previous year but got little attention. | |
| 1964 | Arthur Ashe becomes the first African-American to play on the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team. | |
| 1966 | Charles Whitman, shooting from the Texas Tower at the University of Texas, kills 16 people and wounds 31 before being killed himself. | |
| 1988 | Wingnut blowhard Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show. | |
| 2004 | In Asuncion, Paraguay, a fire in the Ycua Bolanos V supermarket complex kills nearly 400 people and injures 500. | |
| 2007 | The I-35W bridge at Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145. |
Homegrown and homemade produce have always taken pride of place at
Gloucestershire's many village shows.
Green-fingered residents are able to show off their hard work and it all
becomes worth it when a rosette is placed on their parsnips.
But this year, entries at one event were so low that organizers allowed
people to show products bought from the supermarket.
A knife-wielding robber made it easy for police to identify him when he
proudly revealed his name to the shopkeeper he was targeting.
And Carl Harrison even told the victim at record store Smokin Vinyl in
Erdington, Birmingham, where he used to live before he made off with
£1,000 worth of legal highs.
Harrison, 30, of Erdington, admitted two charges of robbery, having a
knife and possessing drugs.
Dorset police launched a major hunt involving a helicopter, armed
officers and a dog unit for a man brandishing a weapon in the dark only
to find it was a gardener holding a rake.
Stephen Hogan had been working late in his back garden with friend Wayne
Dodd when police swooped on their home in Stanpit, Christchurch.
They had earlier received a 999 call from a member of staff at a nursing
home two doors down who reported seeing a man holding what appeared to
be a weapon. After making their way through the home, the two policemen found Mr
Dodd, 43, holding up a rake from where he had been helping to landscape
an area of Mr Hogan's garden under an external light.
Mr Hogan, a 55-year-old plumber, had bought a heavy roller to help with
the garden project on Friday and he, his son Sean, 23, and Mr Dodd
helped to put it together.
Mr Hogan said: "All of a sudden there was a lot of commotion coming from
out the front.
My wife Alison looked outside and saw about five police cars and armed
police officers and dogs.

A zoo in Ohio has pressed charges against a man who jumped a fence to
pet cougars - then posted video of it on YouTube.
Joshua Newell had his camera rolling when he leaped over the outer fence
of the big cat enclosure at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
A puppy sporting a red manicure was abandoned in a purple purse in
Salinas, California, last week, and now authorities are offering a
$1,000 reward in the case.
The SPCA for Monterey County says the pup was found by a Good Samaritan behind a restaurant on Sunday, July 19 at around 10pm.
Beth Brookhouser, director of community outreach of SPCA for Monterey County, said: "He's too young. He should still be with his mother, but we're taking good care of him and he seems to be a big person in a little package."
Brookhouser said the SPCA investigated the possibility that Pierre was stolen, but results came up short.