Baby born in traffic jam as leader drives by 

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani woman gave birth to a baby girl in an auto-rickshaw stuck in a traffic jam when police closed roads to let President Asif Ali Zardari's motorcade drive by.
The woman was being driven to hospital in the city of Quetta on Thursday evening when police blocked roads for Zardari and his convoy to pass.
"We pleaded with the policemen as it was an emergency but they refused citing orders that no one should be allowed to move until the president passed," the woman's brother, Mohammad Zafar, told reporters.
"It's outrageous. People suffer unduly whenever a top government official moves," he said.
Both the mother and the baby, who had yet to be named, were doing well, he said.
Zardari was upset by the incident and had ordered an inquiry, the state-run APP news agency reported.
"Alternative routes must be provided to ensure that the people do not suffer," APP cited him as saying.
Security for government leaders is tight in Pakistan where Islamist militants have carried out numerous bomb attacks, many on convoys carrying top officials or members of the security forces.
Former president Pervez Musharraf survived two bomb attacks on his convoy.

Panda found eating like a pig 

Hunger drove a wild panda to break into a Chinese farmer's pig pen and eat their food, which was meat and bone, rather than bamboo.
State-run China Central Television said the giant panda had apparently descended from the mountains in a region of southwest China's Sichuan province and was spotted in a field before the animal was found inside the pig pen, chewing on bones and spitting out the meat.
After eating its fill, the panda quietly left.
Although classified as carnivores, the giant pandas' diet is mainly bamboo, but it also eats other foods including honey, eggs, fish, oranges and bananas when available.
Scientists believe there are around 1,600 giant pandas living in the wild in China, mostly in the mountains of the southwest.
The endangered species are considered a national icon and its existence is threatened by logging, agriculture and China's increasing human population.

Tanks a lot...

About 100 modern Russian tanks have been discovered abandoned on the side of a road in the country's Ural mountains, footage published Saturday by websites showed.
Video clips from the E1.ru website that were rebroadcast on Russian television showed local people clambering over some of the unguarded T-80 tanks that were parked in long rows in Kamishlovsk, about 100 km from the Ural city of Yekaterinburg.
Russian military prosecutors are probing how the tanks, Russia's main battle tank, came to be left in such a situation, state news agency RIA reported.
Russia is currently streamlining its massive military, with some commanders recently quoted in the Russian media as saying they only require half of the country's 20,000 tanks.