Killing an elephant is punishable by death in Sri Lanka. Saving a drowning one is just really cool.SRI LANKA NAVY MEDIA UNIT HANDOUT/EPAA member of the Sri Lankan Navy ties rope around the stranded elephant.
No other land mammal (excluding Michael Phelps) is better at swimming than the elephant.
But when a particularly ambitious Asian elephant got caught in a strong riptide off the coast of Sri Lanka, things weren’t looking good. Read More...
Luciano family boss Frank Costello survived gang wars, police scrutiny, and an assassination attempt while becoming one of history's wealthiest mobsters.As far as mob bosses go, there were three things that set Frank Costello apart: he never carried a gun, he testified at a Senate hearing on organized crime without the protection of the Fifth Amendment, and despite his multiple arrests and assassination attempt, he died a free man at age 82. Read More...
Police believe that 62-year-old Bernard Raymond von Bredow and his 14-year-old daughter were tortured and killed for their four rare Stradivarius violins.Bernard Raymond Von Bredow/FacebookMuseum owner and violin maker Bernard Raymond Von Bredow was killed in Paraguay along with his teenage daughter.
On Oct. 21, police in Paraguay came upon a bloody scene in a home just outside the capital of Asunción. A father and his teenage daughter had been tortured and murdered. Read More...
