Raul Dancel

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Raul Dancel

Signed, sealed and delivered. After nine hours of drama and cuteness overload, an elephant seal the size of a small car was herded back to the sea after lumbering across a coastal town in South Africa. The young bull was reported to have lost its way and ended up along a street in Gordon’s Bay near Cape Town, startling residents there who then began owning him and calling him “Gordy”. “This is unreal. Hi, bro, how did you get here?” one woman asked.

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Raul Dancel

Think of it as an occupational hazard that you won’t get workmen’s compensation for. A man in Melbourne tried to torch a restaurant in a targeted attack but ended up setting his clothes on fire. A video of the 2024 incident – edited with footages taken from security cameras – was released on May 28 by the Victoria state police in Australia in an appeal to the public to help find the suspect. It is not clear why the police released the video one year after the incident.

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Raul Dancel

An alligator without its long muscular tail was seen crossing a road in Louisiana, a scene many on the internet found both heartbreaking and amusing. The unfortunate reptile is seen slowly making its way across Highway 23 in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, in a Facebook video posted on May 20 by Ms Ashlyn Bartholomew. The video has since been shared over 8,000 times and seen in many news outlets.

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Raul Dancel

Pigeons, a plane, and a flight delayed. Yes, it’s a bird strike, but it’s not quite exactly what you think. Two feathery stowaways ended up inside the cabin of Delta Air Lines Flight 2348 on May 24, delaying the flight twice and causing mayhem onboard. The first pigeon showed up just after boarding, passenger Tom Caw said in a post on Instagram on May 25. He said he overheard a passenger telling a flight attendant there was a pigeon on the plane.

1 month ago | straitstimes.com | Raul Dancel

SINGAPORE - If bookmakers and crypto investors are right on the money, Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle may soon become the next head of the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. He is an odds-on favourite to succeed Pope Francis and become the first Asian pontiff in modern times. British bookmaker William Hill has his odds at 3/1, just behind Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who has a 9/4 odds. The website Oddscheker has the two cardinals tied.