A woman trying to smuggle baby crocodiles strapped to her waist at the Gaza-Egypt border was caught after the officials became suspicious of her strangly bulging body. According to the officials, even though the woman was wearing a loose robe to hide the bulges, she looked "strangely fat" causing the policewoman at Rafah crossing to search her. Maria Telleria, a spokeswoman for European observers who run the terminal, said the incident happened Thursday after a policewoman at the crossing became suspicious and ordered her to submit to a search.

A Cambodian girl who went missing 19 years ago at aged eight has been found after reportedly living wild. A man claiming to be her father identified her through scars although she cannot speak any intelligible language. Rochom P'ngieng had disappeared while looking after buffalo in the Rattanakiri province, northeast of Phnom Penh.

Following a legal petition filed by residents in a posh New Delhi neighborhood, a Delhi High Court has scolded Indian authorities for failing to stop the increasing-and problematic-presence of monkey's in the Indian capital. Various efforts to stop the so-called monkey menace have failed in the past, in part because of the Hindu belief that monkeys are manifestations of the monkey god Hanuman.

A 25-year-old Brazilian woman said she is planning to lodge a formal complaint against the head of the Rio de Janeiro Zoo after one of the monkeys threw a stone at her during a visit. Regiane Viana told O Dia newspaper that she was taken to the hospital and needed treatment after she was hit on the head by the monkey's stone.