A French playwright spent up to 10 hours a day in a cage for a week to better understand the life of the panda for a theater project he's working on. Norbert Aboudarham, 57, spent his time in the cage in Paris' Amiens Zoo writing "The Panda's Flea. "

The voting is over in a contest that was held on the Internet to name a panda born at the National Zoo in Washington, D. C. , the panda was born on July 9 to its mother Mei Xiang. The panda cub's name? Tai Shan. The name should be familiar to fans of the band Rush, having been the title of a song the band wrote in 1987 and appears on their "Hold Your Fire" album.

The voting is over in a contest that was held on the Internet to name a panda born at the National Zoo in Washington, D. C. , the panda was born on July 9 to its mother Mei Xiang. The panda cub's name? Tai Shan. The name should be familiar to fans of the band Rush, having been the title of a song the band wrote in 1987 and appears on their "Hold Your Fire" album.

Indian police force about 200 pornography watchers to do sit-ups in public to embarass them and discourage them from watching the illegally screened smut. Newspaper reports indicate police raided a cinema in the Balasore district in the eastern state of Orissa, forcing audience members, some as young as 17, to do 10 sit-ups each in a public square, under the watchful eyes of onlookers.