A new medical frontier is being explored by a doctor who wants to help people horribly disfigured by burns, accidents or other tragedies - face transplants. In the next few weeks, five men and seven women will secretly visit a Cleveland Clinic to interview for the chance to have a radical operation that's never been tried anywhere in the world, according to The Associated Press.

A young killer whale is using fish as bait to catch seagulls, and is teaching his companions the same method. First, the young whale spits regurgitated fish onto the surface of the water, then sinks below the water and waits.

Wildlife officials are expressing great concern in Louisiana and Mississippi about swamp lands and outlying areas pounded by storm surges and flooding they say are confusing local wildlife and sending alligators, snakes, and other dangerous animals into public streets. There are reports of sightings of hundreds of alligators swimming in flooded streets in Louisiana as well as snakes in northern parts of New Orleans.

Police in Singapore arrest a U. S. citizen for bringing 58 pornographic DVDs and video CDs when he moved to the country last year. Singapore state prosecutors dropped charges of possessing uncertified and obscene films against Tran Nghia Hong after he presented them with a declaration by his brother, stating that he was missing "certain DVDs", The Straits Times says.

A survey reveals lions in Tanzania are killing people three times more often than they did 15 years ago. Villagers and wildlife officials are actively hunting these man-eating lions. Research by the University of Minnesota's Lion Research Center and Tanzania's Wildlife Research Institute, published in the science journal Nature