The internationally famous pair of cute-to-cuddle polar bear Knut and his keeper Thomas Dorflein will no longer perform for the public. The announcement was made by the Berlin Zoo on Monday less than four months after the snowy white polar bear made it first public appearance in March. "Mr. Doerflein's safety counts first of all, of course," zoo spokeswoman Regine Damm told the AP adding that it was high time to associate the 7-month-old Knut with other bears than exposing him to people.

A number of fishermen in Giza reported that a crocodile assaulted their boats recently, mentioning that the animal is 16 feet or five meters in length. No human injuries were reported although eyewitnesses said that they saw the animal sneak back into the Nile at night, eating a dog that happened to be there along the way. Nile crocodiles are the largest African crocodilian. A normal sized male weighs up to 1,100 pounds or 500 kilos. The average pressure exerted by a male Nile crocodile bite is about 3,000 pounds per square inch.

A Charles City police officer has filed a lawsuit against the world's largest fast food company McDonald's for the "Super-Troopers" chicken sandwich he was served at one of its affiliates two years ago. According to Josh Douglas, the incident happened two years back when he and another fellow officer went to an area McDonald's to grab a quick dinner and instead he was served a chicken sandwich with phlegm used as sauce. "It was a loogie. Runny, stringy, slimy snotty loogie and it was stuck between the lettuce and tomato and you pick it up and it all kind of stays together," Douglas described the filling of the sandwich to KIMT News 3. com.

A 40-year-old man was charged with assault and risk of injury to a minor for allegedly biting his 3-year-old nephew all over his body. The man claims he wanted to teach the kid that biting people is wrong and hence thought of this trick. The matter came into light after day-care workers discovered adult-size bite marks on the toddler's chest, stomach, shoulder, back, thigh, leg and buttocks, leading to the arrest of Hector Pulido on Tuesday.

A Brevard County man had to get more than 100 stitches after a giant King Mackerel bit his leg and hand. Josh Landis said the fish jumped into his boat as he and some friends were reeling in a smaller fish. The fish, weighing about 57 pounds and measuring about five feet, hit him in the chest before attacking him.