May 9, 2017 3:33 PM EDT A 10-year-old Florida girl fended off an alligator when it chomped onto her leg by ramming her fingers up the animal’s nose — a survival strategy she learned at a gator theme park — and prying the alligator’s mouth open, state wildlife officials said. Juliana Ossa told NBC’s Today show that she was scared when the nearly 9-foot alligator bit her left leg and wouldn’t let go as she was sitting down in shallow water at an Orlando lake Saturday.

Mwanamuziki mkongwe na maarufu kutoka Afrika Kusini, Jonny Clegg ameaga dunia akiwa na umri wa miaka 66 Clegg ambaye alikuwa akifanya miziki za Kizulu nchini humo alifariki Jumanne, Julai 16, baada ya kuugua kwa muda mrefu kutokana na ugonjwa wa saratani. Akithibitisha habari za kifo chake, meneja wake Roddy Quin alisema marehemu alikata roho akiwa na familia yake nyumbani kwake. Habari Nyingine: Zari Hassan akanusha madai kuwa hummezea mate gavana Sonko

The Catholic church is threatening to go to court unless the government suspends an upcoming countrywide polio vaccination campaign scheduled for Saturday August 1, 2015 over safety concerns. The Catholic church, with over 12 million faithful Kenya is also demanding that the government agrees to a joint testing of the polio vaccine supplied by World Health Organisation. The vaccination drive was set to begin on Thursday, July 30, 2015 although the ministry of Health has so far dismissed the threats by the Catholic church.

TIME December 17, 1934 12:00 AM GMT-5 Old vexatious schisms in the Salvation Army seemed abruptly healed last week when Evangeline Cory Booth arrived in England to take up her duties as the Army’s autocratic world general. As her ship docked Miss Booth received flowers and a letter from the two kinswomen who for years had fought her—the widow, Florence Eleanor, and the daughter, Catherine, of her late brother Bramwell. Later when 10,000 Salvationists gathered to greet their General in London’s Albert Hall, not only were Niece Catherine and Sister-in-law Florence on the platform but also Commissioner Henry Mapp, who had been Evangeline Booth’s chief rival for the generalship.

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