SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 26.7.9
CAPTION: Whale of a story
A CRUISE ship has arrived at the Port of Vancouver with a dead whale lodged in its bow.
The Princess Cruise Lines' Sapphire Princess was docked at the Canada Place terminal on Saturday with the whale still stuck to it.
The ship arrived on Saturday morning on its return from the Alaska run with the whale firmly wedged in the bulbous bow, the Vancouver Sun reported on its website. See photos of the whale here.
The whale's fin and part of its back was protruding from the water.
Lisa Spaven, from the the BC Marine Mammal Response Network, told the Sun it appeared to be a fin whale, a threatened species in Canada.
She estimated the whale was about 20 metres long.
Ms Spaven said the ship's captain wasn't aware of the whale until the ship docked at Canada Place.
HEADLINE: Aboriginal 'Jackson Five' wows crowd
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 25.7.9
CAPTION:
ABORIGINAL Territorians have paid tribute to the life of Michael Jackson with a collection of dance routines, unveiled at the Royal Darwin Show yesterday.
The Northern Territory News reports the troupe of dancers from Milingimbi wowed a crowd of more than 100 with their performance.
Six-year-old Lauchlan Baker stole the show as the youngest of the Jackson Five-esque group.
HEADLINE: Dog meat beats the heat, say vendors
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 25.7.9
CAPTION: BEAT HEAT WITH DOG MEAT
NORTH Korea is promoting the virtue of dog meat as a way to beat the summer heat and says customers are packing Pyongyang restaurants which serve the traditional dish.
The North has been hosting dog meat food contests to help develop the traditional cuisine, the official Korean Central News Agency said.
Dog meat is called dangogi, or "sweet meat", a euphemism coined by North Korea's founder Kim Il-Sung in the early 1980s.
"Our ancestors believed hot dangogi soup consumed during the dog days of summer helped prevent diseases from malnutrition and bolster stamina," KCNA said.
It cited a 17th-Century book on herbal medicine to tout the nutritional value of dog meat.
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