Boy finds cheetah in back garden

A nine-year-old boy call toby in Cambridgeshire found a cheetah in back garden, when he was playing with his bike. He was shocked and ran indoors immediately, while cheetah was jumping on his bike and tearing up the seat.(see the picture below)

Actualy, the cheetah is not wild, and it is bred up by Hamerton zoo, near by toby's house. So why it showed up in back garden of the house? Because the electronic fence in the zoo was broken and let the cheetah escaped from the zoo. Luckily, the cheetah is friendly to the people so Toby didn't get hurt.

Now the cheetah had been captured back to zoo and the broken electric fence had been repaired.

Who? Toby and cheetah

What? Cheetah is up in the toby's back garden

When? Thursday October 30 2008

Why? Because zoo's electric fence was borken.

Where? Cambridgeshire

link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7700000/newsid_7700100/7700191.stm

Strong earthquake hits Pakistan

This week, the strong earthquake hit Pakistan and caused big damage to the country. More than 100 people have died and more have been injured in this natural disaster. Moreover, many people have no house to live in because hundreds of houses made from mud collapsed, so they are now living on the street.

Army soldiers and helicopters have been sent in to the areas hit by the quake to try and help the people affected, and to find out how bad the damage is.

Who? Pakistani.
What? Earthquake happened, measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale.
When? Tuesday October 28 2008.
Where? Pakistan.

Link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7690000/newsid_7696700/7696772.stm

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1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel chemistry prize!!

Japan's Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says they shared the prize for the discovery and development of GFP, which was first seen in jellyfish. The protein is a widely used laboratory tool to illuminate processes in living organisms, such as development of brain cells or the spread of cancer cells. Shimomura first isolated GFP from a jellyfish found off the west coast of North America and discovered that it glowed bright green under ultraviolet light. In the 1990s, Chalfie showed GFP's value "as a luminous genetic tag," while Tsien contributed "to our general understanding of how GFP fluoresces," the academy said in its citation. It said that their work has enabled "scientists to follow several different biological processes at the same time." That means that researchers have been able to use GFP to track nerve cell damage from Alzheimer's disease or see how insulin-producing beta-cells are created in the pancreas of a growing embryo. "In one spectacular experiment, researchers succeeded in tagging different nerve cells in the brain of a mouse with a kaleidoscope of colors," the citation said.

Palin makes Obama terrorist claim

US Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin has accused the Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, of associating with terrorists.

She said he had been "palling around" with an ex-member of US-based militant group Weather Underground, which opposed the Vietnam War in the 1960s.

Mr Obama once served on a charity board with a member of the group, but he has denounced its activities.

A Democratic spokesman accused the Republicans of gutter politics.

"What's clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy," Hari Sevugan said.

Commentators say Mrs Palin's attack forms part of a broader Republican strategy to attack Mr Obama's character.