Chinese farmer Zhou Zhenglong, 52, has gone back into the wilderness to take more photos of the tiger, in an effort to refute accusations that the photo he earlier submitted was a fake.

A former hunter in the Chengguan Township of Zhenping County, Zhou said that he planned to track down the tiger and bring back more photographs. He has been searching for tiger tracks for the past three days.

Six elephants including three calves died in India's north-eastern state of Meghalaya after getting drunk on rice beer and running through a paddy field where they were electrocuted, officials and residents said Tuesday.

The incident happened in the village of Chandan Nukat, about 250 kilometres west of Shillong, the state capital, on Sunday night.

early 100 wild elephants rampaged on a river island in India's northeast Assam province on Saturday, demolishing homes, feasting on sugarcane and panicking residents, officials said.

"The herd is wandering just about anywhere in Majuli. A forest guard was injured and about 50 houses have been pulled down, forcing residents to take shelter in a makeshift relief camp that we have set up," LS Changsan, Jorhat district magistrate told the media.

olice had an easy time arresting a bank robber in Englewood, Colorado after he used his own account check as a note to demand money from a teller.

A man walked into the Bank of the West on September 5 and gave the teller a note written on a bank check that said, "Give me all the money in your drawer Now!"

The Congolese Observatory for Human Rights is protesting Congolese officials who lodged a group of Pygmy musicians performing at the Festival of Pan-American Music in a zoo. Other artists performing at the festival received hotel accommodations.

"We vigorously protest the discrimination, exploitation and bad treatment of these 20 indigenous people," the rights group said. "Since their arrival in Brazzaville on July 4, these people have been sleeping exposed to mosquitoes and the cold ... whereas the other delegations have been housed in hotels."