Lion v Warthog: The stunning moment

This is the moment a warthog stepped into the path of a hungry lion and then became its prey.

The incredible pictures show the warthog step into the lion's den, but it was only ever going to end one way, as the predator then leaps out with brute force to capture the animal.

The lion then goes on to devour the wild pig, proving his status as top of the animal food chain.

The unsuspecting warthog steps into the path of an oncoming lion at the Addo Elephant Park in South Africa

The lion leaps out on to the warthog with brute force and pounces on its prey

The warthog tries to make a break for freedom but the lion is hot on its heels trying to recapture it

The stunning images were taken by photographer Dr Trix Jonker, of Bloemfontein in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, who managed to capture the action

The stunning images were caught on camera by photographer Dr Trix Jonker, at the Addo Elephant Park in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

 Dr Jonker, 57, from Bloemfontein in the Free State province of South Africa, revealed she almost missed the moment as the warthog had a lucky escape first of all, but foolishly walked back into the lion's den and this time was not so lucky.

But she managed to capture the action at the perfect minute.

She said: 'It was getting late and the gates were closing in an hour. I looked away and when I looked back I saw the warthog coming straight towards some resting lions.

The lion wrestles the warthog to the ground sending a dust cloud up in the air

Dr Jonker said when the dust cleared she saw the lion holding the warthog between his front paws

The warthog had a lucky escape the first time it entered the lion's den, but the second time it wasn't so lucky

'The poor unsuspecting warthog did not spot the lions at all and she disappeared behind a bush where a lion was lying, and it was taken by surprise.

Dr Jonker revealed the warthog first had a lucky escape after it accidentally woke a sleeping lioness and startled her so she didn't attack.

But she couldn't believe her eyes when the same warthog went back into the lion's den.

She added: After the warthog escaped, I thought the action was over. But the warthog went back in a circle and went back on the same path as before, straight back into the lions.

The lion asserts his authority as top of the food chain as he takes a bite of the warthog who was unable to escape

The lion digs his teeth into the warthog he has just killed as he is joined by a lioness

'By this time, a male lion had woken up and was sat up straight trying to see what the commotion was.

'He saw the warthog coming and went straight into the attack position. This was when I had my camera poised as I knew this time something was going to happen.

'At one stage there was only this big dust cloud and I could not see what was happening.

The pictures were captured by Dr Trix Jonker, pictured, who said it was amazing she managed to capture the battle on camera

'Then when the dust cleared and I saw the lion holding the warthog between his front paws and looking straight at me.

'He stayed like that for quite a while then lifted the warthog into the air and started dragging her away.

'I couldn't believe how tough the warthog was, and was absolutely stunned by what I saw that afternoon. It's amazing I managed to capture it on camera.'

The wages of fear: The harrowing plight of the ship breakers

The sad beauty of these incredible images cast a light on the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh, where workers face death and injury from accidents and environmental hazards for just a few dollars a a day.

Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard is the largest of its type in the world. Around 80 active ship breaking yards line an eight-mile stretch of the coast, employing more than 200,000 Bangladeshis and accounting for half of all the steel in Bangladesh.

Ship breaking is the dismantling of ships for scrap recycling. Most ships have a lifespan of a 25-30 years before there is so much wear that repair becomes uneconomical, but the rising cost to insure and maintain aging vessels can make even younger vessels unprofitable to operate.

A satellite image shows a mile-long stretch of the Bangladeshi coast just north of Chittagong, where ships from around the world are beached and dismantled

Arduous: At low tide ship-breakers haul a 10,000-pound cable to a beached ship to winch pieces ashore as they dismantle it

Swarms of laborers from the poorest parts of Bangladesh use acetylene torches and their hands to slice the carcass into pieces. These are hauled off the beach by teams of loaders, then melted down.

 

Ship breaking allows materials from the ship, especially steel, to be recycled. Equipment, fuel and chemicals on board the vessel can also be reused.

Peter Gwin, writing for National Geographic, visited the region to see it first hand. He described the guards, razor wire-topped fences and signs prohibiting photography there, installed following scrutiny in the ship breaker's operations after a spate of deaths.

 

After workers spent several days cutting through the decks of the Leona I, a large section suddenly crashes, sending shards of steel flying toward the yard managers. Built in Split, Croatia, the cargo vessel was at sea for 30 years, about the average ship's life span

He said: 'In the sprawling shantytowns that have grown up around the yards, I met dozens of the workers. Many had deep, jagged scars. "Chittagong tattoos," one man called them.

'Some men were missing fingers. A few were blind in one eye.

'In one home I meet a family whose four sons worked in the yards. The oldest, Mahabub, 40, spent two weeks as a cutter's helper before witnessing a man burn to death when his torch sparked a pocket of gas belowdecks.

'"I didn't even collect my pay for fear they wouldn't let me leave," he says, explaining that bosses often intimidate workers to keep silent about accidents.' 

Fishermen place their nets at low tide in front of the ship-breaking yards in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Today Chittagong is partially soaked with oil and toxic mud.

Ship breaking is dangerous work and can expose workers to toxic chemicals. 

The work is back-breaking because these massive ships are not designed to come apart, but withstand some of the harshest conditions imaginable at sea.

They are often constructed with toxic materials, such as asbestos and lead.

When ships are scrapped in the developed world, the process is more strictly regulated and expensive, so the bulk of the world's shipbreaking is done in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, where labour is cheap and oversight is minimal.

The article about the ship breakers of Chittagong appears in the May issue of National Geographic. Right, a worker in a ship-breaking yard in Chittagong.

Dua beradik ditangkap kerana disyaki makan daging bayi

FARMAN (kanan) dan Mohammad Arif (dua dari kanan) dikawal dua anggota polis apabila mereka tiba di sebuah mahkamah di Sargodha, Pakistan semalam.- AP

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LAHORE - Pihak polis Pakistan menahan seorang lelaki dan adiknya kerana mereka disyaki memakan seorang bayi yang baru dilahirkan selepas kepala kanak-kanak itu dijumpai di rumah mereka, kata para pegawai.
Lelaki tersebut, Farman Ali, 37, ditahan sehari selepas polis menangkap abangnya, Mohammad Arif, 40, selepas penemuan kepala bayi di rumah mereka di satu daerah terpencil di wilayah Punjab.
Kedua-dua beradik itu sebelum ini pernah ditahan dan dihukum penjara selama dua tahun kerana memakan mayat wanita berusia 24 tahun dalam satu kes yang mengejutkan negara itu pada 2011.
Mohammad Arif memberitahu polis, Farman Ali mencuri mayat bayi berusia dua hari itu di sebuah tanah perkuburan di Kampung Darya Khan yang terletak kira-kira 300 kilometer dari selatan Islamabad.
Katanya, mereka kemudiannya melapah sebelum memasak dan memakan mayat bayi itu.
Ketua PolisBhakkar, Ameer Abdullah berkata, Farman Ali ditahan pada Selasa lalu dan kedua-dua suspek telah didakwa di sebuah mahkamah.
Polis menyatakan, isteri kedua-dua lelaki itu telah meninggalkan mereka beberapa tahun lalu. - Agensi

Man City top salary chart

Manchester City are the best-paid sports team in the world, with average first-team pay a whopping £5.3m a year, or £102,653 per week according to a new report that compares global earnings in the most popular leagues.
Five Premier League sides make the top 20 on the list, with Liverpool - City’s title showdown opponents from Sunday - in 20th place, earning an average of £3.4m per man per year.
Manchester United are at No 8 on £4.3m per man per year, Champions League semi-finalists Chelsea are at No 10 (nearly £4m) and Arsenal are at No 11 (£3.9m).

 

High earners: Manchester City have topped a global sports salary list, with their squad paid £5.3m a year

Big spender: City owner Sheik Mansour has invested hundreds of millions into making them title challengers

Blank cheque: Manuel Pellegrini could sign pretty much any player in the world for City

  

Two giants from American baseball, the New York Yankees and the LA Dodgers, as well as the two giants of Spanish football, Real Madrid and Barcelona, fill out the top five behind City.
The top 10 also includes the Brooklyn Nets of the NBA (at No 6), Bayern Munich (No 7), and the Chicago Bulls of the NBA (No 9).
The Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS), produced for ESPN The Magazine in the USA, has been tracking comparative pay at major sports teams for five years.
City players were earning an average of just under £1.5m a year each when Sheik Mansour arrived in 2008 but their pay has more than trebled in the six years of his ownership.
Chelsea have also seen their wages and fortunes soar since Roman Abramovich arrived at Stamford Bridge in 2003 but foreign sugar-daddy ownership is not restricted to elite European football. 

Big hitters: The New York Yankees baseball team ranked second on the earners' list

Coining it in: The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team are third on the salary list with an average annual pay of £5.1m but they moved down from second place last year

The Brooklyn Nets were bought in 2010 by one of Abramovich’s fellow Russian billionaires, Mikhail Prokhorov.
Not only is Prokhorov footing the Nets’ $102m (around £61m) total payroll in 2013-14, or £4.5m per player this year, but he will need to pay an additional $70m (around £42m) or thereabouts in luxury tax for exceeding the NBA’s wage cap.

On the list: Chelsea were 10th in the rankings with a £3.9m wage bill and still have a chance of winning the Premier League title this season

Wealth: Roman Abramovich has poured millions into Chelsea since he became owner in 2003

Close call: Arsenal are just behind Chelsea in the survey. They advanced to the final of the FA Cup at the weekend, beating Wigan on penalties at Wembley

Sneaking in: Liverpool came in 20th in the salary list with an annual spend of £3.4m on wages each year. That could increase if they win their first league title in 24 years next month

Overpaid? Manchester United came in eighth in the list but have fallen short in the Premier League and Champions League this season

The GSSS looks solely at earnings for playing sport, not for endorsements or other extra-curricular activities. The 2014 report considers 294 teams in 15 leagues in 12 countries across seven different sports: football, baseball, basketball, gridiron, cricket, ice hockey and Aussie Rules football.
The report looks at numbers from either current or most recently completed seasons, depending on availability of accounts and other information.
The NBA is the highest-paying league as a whole, with 441 players at 30 teams in the 2013-14 season earning an average of £2.98m per year each.
The Premier League is the best paying football league in the world, with the average annual pay at £2.27m per player.

THE WORLD'S BEST PAID SPORTS TEAM BY AVERAGE FIRST-TEAM SALARY

RANK (LAST YEAR)	TEAM	LEAGUE	AV. ANNUAL PAY (WEEKLY)
1 (1)	Manchester City	Premier League	£5,337,944 (£102,653)
2 (5)	New York Yankees	MLB	£5,286,628 (£101,666)
3 (2)	Los Angeles Dodgers	MLB	£5,119,701 (£98,456)
4 (3)	Real Madrid	La Liga	£4,993,393 (£96,027)
5 (4)	Barcelona	La Liga	£4,901,327 (£94,256)
6 (16)	Brooklyn Nets	NBA	£4,485,019 (£86,250)
7 (9)	Bayern Munich	Bundesliga	£4,402,905 (£84,671)
8 (12)	Manchester United	Premier League	£4,322,251 (£83,120)
9 (19)	Chicago Bulls	NBA	£3,985,706 (£76,648)
10 (8)	Chelsea	Premier League	£3,984,536 (£76,626)
11 (15)	Arsenal	Premier League	£3,901,923 (£75,037)
12 (20)	New York Knicks	NBA	£3,862,191 (£74,273)
13 (14)	Detroit Tigers	MLB	£3,833,510 (£73,721)
14 (11)	Philadelphia Phillies	MLB	£3,811,638 (£73,301)
15 (22)	Boston Red Sox	MLB	£3,763,451 (£72,374)
16 (17)	Miami Heat	NBA	£3,665,215 (£70,485)
17 (23)	San Francisco Giants	MLB	£3,613,741 (£69,495)
18 (35)	Juventus	Serie A	£3,512,696 (£67,552)
19 (7)	LA Lakers	NBA	£3,411,402 (£65,604)
20 (21)	Liverpool	Premier League	£3,403,783 (£65,457)

Barcelona stars earn £25m over five years...

Barcelona are out of the Champions League and far from a shoo-in for the La Liga title but at least even the average players in the Nou Camp squad are unlikely to worry about money ever again.
A new report on global pay in sport has found an average first-team Barca player has earned £24,995,540 over the past five years, which is more than the average five-year pay at any team in world sport.
The eye-watering sums on offer in elite European football and in the major sports leagues of America effectively mean that a single five-year deal should provide enough money to set up a player for life.

Big money: The average Barcelona player earns £25million over five years, which is more than the average five-year pay at any team in world sport

No worries: Signing a five-year deal with a major sports team should set up a player for life

Payday: Gareth Bale and his Real Madrid team-mates earn just over half a million less than rivals Barcelona over 5 years

 

Barcelona’s La Liga rivals have paid the next most on average in the past five years: £24.4m per player on average, followed by the New York Yankees of Major League baseball (£23.6m) and then Manchester City (£20.8m) and Chelsea (£20.4m) of the Premier League.
Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool all make it into the top 20 alongside globally famous teams such as the LA Lakers of the NBA and the Boston Red Sox baseball team - who are owned, like Liverpool, by John W Henry’s Fenway Sports Group.
The numbers are published today as part of the Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) produced for ESPN The Magazine in the USA. The report looks solely at earnings for playing sport, not for endorsements or other extra-curricular activities.
The five-year earnings list highlights some counter-intuitive findings, including how relatively poorly the average player in the NFL in America is paid. There is a general perception that NFL stars, in an industry awash with cash, all earn bumper pay packets. The reality is a few players on each team earn huge money but many earn ‘only’ hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
As a result, the best paid NFL team over five years, the Dallas Cowboys, appear only at No93 in the five-year list, with an average player earning ‘only’ £7.8m over five years. 
The Cowboys are one place below Everton (£7.87m over five years per average player) and 20 places lower than the best paying NHL ice-hockey team, the Chicago Blackhawks (£9.1m per average player over five years).

Owner: The LA Lakers, Boston Red Sox and Liverpool - owned by John W Henry's Fenay Sports Group - all made it into the top 20

High five: The average player playing for the New York Yankees earns £23.5m over 5 years

 

Fall: The LA lakers have seen a decrease in the difference between earnings in 2010 and 2014

Best paying sports teams in the world based on average players’ total salary over five years

 

That's cool! The Finnish SnowHotel

Located on the Arctic Circle and built entirely of snow, you would expect this hotel to be quite chilly - but it is actually a constant zero degrees once you're inside.
The SnowHotel in the Finnish town of Rovaniemi is built each year for the winter season, providing a quiet, snowy escape for tourists.
And if you manage to survive a night in your chilly room you can come away with a 'diploma' on spending the night in Arctic conditions.
While fleece-lined sleeping bags are there to keep out the chill, the hotel also has traditional Finnish saunas to truly help guests thaw out.
And if you fancy looking out for the Northern Lights, you can stay warm by sitting in the outdoor hot tub and sipping a rum toddy.
And if you don't fancy a night in the hotel, you could always head further north and try your own glass igloo - the newly-built accommodation is in Kakslauttanen, even further north into the Arctic Circle.
The unusual transparent mounds emerge from the snow, offering a panoramic view of the night sky, ensuring you'll never miss a chance to spot the Northern Lights and have been built in response to booming tourism to the remote area.
The 15 Arctic Igloos use thermal glass and heated floors so you aren't exposed to the elements and you can ever get breakfast served to the igloo the following morning, meaning you don't have to set foot outside.

Check in, chill out: The cool hotel offers a 'diploma' to anyone who manages an overnight stay

Would you like ice with that? The restaurants serve a mixture of different dishes and warming drinks, all designed to keep out the cold

Thrills and chills: While the hotel may look chilly, apparently its interior temperature remains at a 'balmy' zero degrees

Cool customer: Two guests enjoy the relative protection from the elements offered by the hotel, while fur throws on the bar seats keep diners warm too

Camping out: The glass igloos offer panoramic views of the night sky

Warm welcome: The igloos use thermal glass and have heated floors to make an overnight stay more comfortable

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Room for romance: Icy decor doesn't mean everything has to be bland and white, this room glows red to welcome chilly guests

In the black: The thermometer on the SnowHotel shows a warm (ish) zero degrees inside

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