In short

BBC: Homing crocodiles defy relocation
By Phil Mercer BBC News, Sydney

Three homesick crocodiles in Australia have shocked experts by returning hundreds of kilometres back to their homes after being relocated.

Homing crocodiles. Fun!

BBC: Shetty questioned over Gere kiss

Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty has been questioned in India over her public kiss with Hollywood actor Richard Gere.

The 32-year-old was stopped at Mumbai Airport by officials who had no record of a court ruling that overturned a ban on her leaving the country.

Get over it.

Reuters: Nine die in Myanmar protest crackdown
Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:32pm EDT
By Aung Hla Tun

YANGON (Reuters) - Troops cleared protesters from the streets of central Yangon on Thursday, giving them 10 minutes to leave or be shot before chasing them through the city, firing into crowds and beating people.

State television admitted nine people were killed in actions which stung an outraged Association of South East Asian Nations, one of the few international groupings which has isolated Myanmar as a member, into expressing its "revulsion".

Reuters: Sudan's floods claim 150 lives, $300 mln lost
Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:43am EDT

KHARTOUM, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The worst floods in living memory in Sudan have killed 150 people, made hundreds of thousands homeless and cost the country an estimated $300 million in damages, a Sudanese official said on Thursday.

Heavy and early winter rains have caused flash floods and forced rivers to burst their banks in Africa's largest country, which has been recovering from decades of multiple civil wars. Most people live along river banks in the mostly desert country.

"We have about 73,000 houses completely destroyed and 29,000 partially destroyed," said Hamadallah Adam Ali, head of Sudan's civil defence authority.He said 150 people had been killed and 302 injured by the flooding, with 42,000 livestock lost.

I'm sorry. I really am. And in the bigger scheme of things, the flood story in which so many died was a footnote in the International News page. Such is the life of those born into poverty.