1. Green bears, oh my!
Green polar bears are drawing questions from puzzled visitors at a Japanese zoo. Three normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo changed color in July after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae. After the algae subsides, the color should return to normal.
2. Strange casing
A burglar who broke into a home near Fresno, Calif., on Saturday rubbed spices over the body of one of two men as they slept in their rooms and then used an 8-inch sausage to whack the other man in the face and head before he ran out the house, police said. Lt. Ian Burrimond described the crime as one of the strangest he has ever heard of.
3. Auto industry help
Auto industry allies hope to secure up to $50 billion in government loans this month that would pay to modernize plants and help carmakers build more fuel-efficient vehicles.
4. Gun battle
Three people including a police officer are dead after a reported domestic disturbance at a hair salon turned into a gun fight, police in Martinez, Calif., said Saturday.
5. Rock slide deaths
Hopes diminished Sunday for finding survivors among hundreds of people believed trapped beneath massive boulders that destroyed an impoverished neighborhood on Cairo’s outskirts, killing at least 31 people, including whole extended families.
6. Dental gloss
Getting your jaw X-rayed by a foreign practitioner in a blowup tent may sound like a hard sell to British patients, but a group of Hungarian dentists is arguing otherwise. It’s all in the hope of attracting a bigger share of Britain’s “dental tourists” — patients looking to Eastern Europe for cut-price dental work.
7. Pakistani shopkeepers walk Sunday on the rubble of collapsed market at the site of Saturday’s suicide bombing in the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan. The death toll in the massive suicide blast reached 35, officials said Sunday, as the country prepared for the widower of assassinated ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to take over as president.
