Dogfishing is a new word for the new age. It refers to the practice of enticing a person, usually online, to buy a puppy which is sick and is therefore not the dog that the person thinks he/she is. It is basically a con. And …
There is a fascinating write-up of a study about the declining numbers of small native mammal species, weighing up to 5 kg, in an area called Top End in Australia. Top End, as the name implies, is at the top of Australia, dead centre. It …
No doubt you will find that different people produce a different answer to this question. My research indicates that the idiom “raining cats and dogs” probably comes from a poem by Jonathan Swift entitled A Description of a City Shower. The poem was published in …
So-called “ghost nets” refers to abandoned fishing nets in large quantities on the seabed and sometimes wrapped around wrecks as is the case in this story which highlights the problem they pose to marine wildlife. A volunteer organisation who call themselves Ghost Diving has been …
The gold rush of the 21st-century is the mining of precious metals and minerals wherever they are found in order to supply the burgeoning high-tech industries. The obvious precious metal which is in great demand these days is lithium which is extracted by China in …
Shaza Morani is the daughter of India’s renowned producer Karim Morani and his wife Zara Morani. Her sister, Zoa, is an actress in the Hindi film industry. She lives in Mumbai. One of her friends as a Bollywood actress Shraddha Kapoor who is also concerned …
I have become an instant fan of Shraddha Kapoor. She is a wealthy, beautiful and educated Indian actress living in Mumbai probably in a big house but not too far from her home is a rubbish dump and in that dump there was a feral …
You may have heard about it. It is circulating on the Internet. It’s all over Twitter. Katie Price, the British celebrity who makes a living out of being a celebrity has just lost a cute French Bulldog puppy of tender years whose name is Rolo. …
NEWS-VIEWS FRANCE: I’ve just learned about this. From my perspective it is a disgusting practice but it is apparently commonplace in Provence, France. I’m told that the practice of limestick trapping was developed in ancient Greece. Hunters cover twigs and branches in glue so the …
