SOURCE LINK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6932008.ece
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Vladimir Putin’s tigress is missing.
The rare Siberian tiger that Russia’s Prime Minister shot with a tranquiliser dart and fitted with a satellite-tracking collar has disappeared, according to environmentalists.
Its movements were being tracked on Mr Putin’s official website to highlight threats to the survival of the animal, also called the Amur tiger.The female tiger’s last location was recorded two months ago and nothing has been heard from her since.
HEADLINE: Man Recreates PanAm 747 in His Garage
SOURCE LINK: http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/BusinessTraveler/airplane-buff-recreates-panam-747-class-cabin-garage/story?id=9158956
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As a child, Anthony Toth visited nearly every aviation museum in North America. But the models of airplanes and displays of memorabilia left him unimpressed.
"I really wanted something that would appeal to all my senses," said the 42-year-old executive of United Airlines. "I wanted to be able to sit in the cabin, to be able to look at all the things that were in there. And even maybe experience what the onboard product might have been like."
What he really wanted was to recreate his experience flying internationally as a child from his boyhood home in Ohio to visit relatives in Rome and Budapest, Hungary. So, when no museum met his criteria, Toth decided to create one for himself. Twenty years in the making, the result is a recreation of a first-class cabin of a Boeing 747 from the now-defunct Pan American World Airways, his favorite airline as a child. ..
HEADLINE: "Rocket Man" Fizzles over Atlantic
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/25/world/main5773089.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTwoColLowerPromoArea;morenews
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A Swiss adventurer has gone down in the Atlantic while trying to fly from Morocco to Spain on jet-powered wings. A rescue helicopter has pulled him from the water and he appears to be unhurt.
Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers on Wednesday but halfway through an expected 15-minute flight he went down into wind-swept waters.
"Winds were certainly difficult today," the organizers' Twitter Web feed said.
Live television footage of the attempt showed Rossy waving while in the water waiting to be rescued.
HEADLINE: Cop loses job for giving small fines
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26398689-2,00.html
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A VICTORIA Police sergeant has been sacked for using his discretion to give speeding drivers smaller fines than the law required him to do.
The officer is believed to have booked about 500 people over two years around Avondale Heights, in Melbourne's west.
He reduced the penalty for drivers through means such as increasing a zone's speed limit on a ticket.
If a motorist was caught driving 80km/h in a 60km/h speed zone, the sergeant allegedly falsely increased the speed limit to 70km/h so the driver would be fined less and receive one instead of three demerit points off his licence...
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