Abusive son-in-law ‘binned’
MADINAH: Fed up with his son-in-law’s drinking and abusing his daughter, a man beat his son-in-law up, tied his hands behind his back and then dumped him in a dumpster, Al-Madinah newspaper reported.
The son-in-law had argued with the man and hit him in the face. Incensed by his behavior, the man — together with his daughter and son — set upon the son-in-law, tying his hands with a shimagh, beating him up and then putting him in the dumpster.
As he lay in the bin, the son-in-law threatened to call the police. When local residents tried to intervene and take him out, the father called on them not to do so saying he deserved to sleep in the bin rather than with his daughter, who he had been abusing for the past five years.
Dinosaur footprints found in China
BEIJING: Archaeologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world’s largest grouping of fossilized bones belonging to the ancient animals.
The footprints, believed to be more than 100 million years old, were discovered after a three-month excavation at a gully in Zhucheng in the eastern province of Shandong, the Xinhua news agency reported.
The prints range from 10 to 80 centimeters (four to 32 inches) in length, and belonged to at least six different kinds of dinosaurs, including tyrannosaurs, the report said Saturday.
Wang Haijun, a senior engineer at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the prints faced the same direction, Xinhua said.
Ancient dialect extinct as last man dies
PORT BLAIR, India: One of the world’s oldest dialects, which traces its origins to tens of thousands of years ago, has become extinct after the last person to speak it died on a remote Indian island.
Boa Sr, the 85-year-old last speaker of “Bo,” was the oldest member of the Great Andamanese tribe, R.C. Kar, deputy director of Tribal Health in Andaman, told Reuters on Friday.
She died last week in Port Blair, the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which were hit by a devastating tsunami in 2004.
“With the death of Boa Sr and the extinction of the Bo language, a unique part of human society is now just a memory,” said Stephen Corry, director of Survival International, an organization that supports tribes worldwide.
— Compiled by Arab News