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Giant panda's tender moment with cub

The first pictures have been released of a cub born to the giant panda Zhuyun in China's Sichuan Province.

Worried keepers at the at the Ya'an reserve south of Wolong looked on as the mother picked up the tiny baby in her mouth.

The male cub was born pink and almost hairless with a weight of 5.6oz (159.5 g) and a length of 6 inches (14.8cm).

After careful observation, both the mother and the cub were in good health despite the brief concern caused when the mother picked the cub up in her jaws to take him for a walk.

Zhuyun mated with a male named Lingling in March and began to show signs of giving birth to the young in mid June.

The baby will not be named yet for another 100 days in line with tradition which always dictates that panda cubs live without a name when first born.

It is Zhuyun's second cub. Her first cub, Minmin, is among the 10 giant pandas sent to Shanghai during the 2010 World Expo.

Both Zhuyun and Lingling belong to the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Centre.

Giant pandas are among the world's most endangered species. According to the State Forestry Administration, about 1,590 pandas live in the wild, mostly in the mountains of Sichuan, and more than 210 live in captivity.

The 200,000-hectare Wolong Nature Reserve, founded in 1963, is home to the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Centre, which was damaged in the massive earthquake of May 2008 and almost all of the 150-plus pandas under its custody were sent to the Ya'an reserve. The Wolong centre is being rebuilt.

Workmen paint white lines around dead badger

Workmen painting white lines on a road left a gap for a dead badger because they said it was not their responsibility to move it. The animal had been killed about a week before on the A338 near Downton, on the Hampshire-Wiltshire border in England. Hampshire County Council said the workers did what they thought "was best" because it is the district council's job to remove carcasses. The badger has now been removed and the painting will be completed on Friday.

Businessman Kevin Maul was on his way home from work when he noticed the break in the lines. He said: "I couldn't quite believe my eyes when I saw this poor old badger who had been there over a week. "I'd seen him every day as I went by and wondered if he was going to be picked up. Then on Friday I drove home to see his body between the lines - they had painted the road, but left a gap where he lay."

Hampshire County Council is responsible for the line painting but New Forest District Council is responsible for clearing road kill. The two failed to arrange the clearance before line painting began. Mel Kendal, county council environment chief, said: "We would usually liaise with our colleagues at the district council who dispose of animal carcasses on the highways to ensure the badger was removed before the white line painting crew did this stretch of road.

"This appears not to have happened in this case and the white line painting crew did what they thought was best until arrangements could be made to dispose of the carcass. These arrangements have now been made and the gap in the white lines will be filled in, at no extra cost to the council tax payer." The county council said there would be no extra cost to taxpayers because the company was being paid a fixed rate for the job. Council contractor Amey said the staff from sub-contractor Bellstan were not "licensed or trained" to remove road kill.

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English Couple's Wedding Like A Bad Movie Script

It could have been the wedding day from hell. First, a 16-month-old page boy turned blue and collapsed in front of the bride.

He was recovering and on his way to hospital when the groom's 76-year-old mother collapsed as the wedding photographs were being taken. The paramedic team, which had helped the youngster, returned and she, too, had to be taken to hospital. Minutes later, a guest received a text saying her father had died.

At the reception, the couple's toddler son cut his head after a glass cover fell on him, followed hours later by their daughter cutting her head open. Then as the day was winding up, the groom, setting off to see his mum in hospital, found his car was locked in a secure car park.

But Paul Cassidy and bride Vilma are still smiling after their wedding at St Mary's Church, in Melton,Leistershire, on Saturday. Transport boss Paul, 50, of Melton, said: "I thought Jeremy Beadle was going to pop out at any minute."

Indonesian Muslims told to change prayer direction

Indonesia's Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa.

Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued an edict in March stipulating westward was the correct direction from the world's most populous Muslim country.

"But it has been decided that actually the mosques are facing Somalia or Kenya, so we are now suggesting people shift the direction slightly to the north-west," the head of the MUI, Cholil Ridwan, said. "There's no need to knock down mosques, just shift your direction slightly during prayer."

Ridwan said Muslims need not fear that their prayers have been wasted because they were facing the wrong way. "Their prayers will still be heard by Allah," he said. Said Agil Siradj, head of Indonesia's largest Muslim organisation Nahdlatul Ulama, said that the confusion showed the MUI issued edicts too fast and that this was a lesson for them.

JOKE: New Panties

To spice up her dead sex-life.

She puts them on, together with a short
skirt and sits on the sofa opposite her husband.

At strategic moments
she uncrosses her legs .....
enough times that her husband finally asks,

"Are you wearing crotchless panties?"

"Y-e-s," she answers with a seductive smile.

"Thank God - I thought you were sitting on the cat."

He never heard the gunshot.