2010年11月8日星期一

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil

Smoking chimp rescued in Lebanon, sent to Brazil (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 09:15 AM PST

Omega, a 12-year-old chimpanzee, bare his teeth through his cage in a zoo in the southern Lebanese village of Ansar on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010. Omega In his younger years was used in one of the local restaurants to entertain people and was made to smoke cigarettes and serve water pipe to customers. After he grew stronger, he was locked up and taken to a zoo where he has lived in a 40 square meter cage for the past 10 years. Organizers of Omega's evacuation say it marks the first time a chimpanzee has been rescued in Lebanon, a country with virtually no animal rights protection laws. Omega is being sent to a sanctuary in Brazil Monday after being rescued from a zoo in south Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)AP - A 12-year-old chimpanzee was heading to a sanctuary in Brazil on Monday after animal rights workers discovered him smoking cigarettes to entertain visitors at a Lebanese zoo.

Brazil red-faced by traffic assault on F1's Button (AFP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:27 AM PST

Brazilian authorities were Monday looking hard at their organization of world-class sporting events after Formula 1 driver Jenson Button, picutred on November , escaped a roadside assault outside the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.(AFP/Mauricio Lima)AFP - Brazilian authorities were Monday looking hard at their organization of world-class sporting events after Formula 1 driver Jenson Button escaped a roadside assault outside the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.

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