A piranha has been found in a river in Devon, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Environment Agency fisheries workers found the dead piranha in the East Okement tributary of the River Torridge in Devon while conducting a survey of fish species using electric fishing equipment.
The piranha, the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world, is more commonly found in the Amazon River basin.
The Red Bellied Piranha found at East Okement was about 14 inches long, bigger than …

Apple have officially made available Snow Leopard, the latest version of the OS X operating system for Mac computers, which makes better use of the capabilities in Intel processors, adds user interface enhancements, and builds in support for Microsoft’s Exchange email server, V3.co.uk reports.
Snow Leopard, or OS X version 10.6, is now available from Apple stores and to order online. It costs £25 as an upgrade from Leopard, while Apple said anyone with an Intel-based …

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called today for the leaders of the opposition to be prosecuted over Iran’s postelection turmoil, stepping up pressure against the pro-reform movement that says he won the election by fraud, FoxNews reports.
It was the first time Ahmadinejad has made such a call, publicly siding with hard-line politicians and clerics and commanders of the powerful Revolutionary Guard who have demanded in recent weeks that opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi and his top …

The number of Israelis who see US President Barack Obama’s policies as pro-Israel has fallen to four percent, Jerusalem Post reports.
Fifty-one percent of Jewish Israelis consider Obama’s administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israel, according to the survey by Smith Research, while 35% consider it neutral and 10% declined to express an opinion. The poll of 500 people representing a statistical model of the Jewish Israeli population had a margin of error of 4.5%.
A JPost poll published …

At least eight minor earthquakes have been recorded in central and southern Oklahoma in a single day, the AP reports.
The latest was a 2.3 magnitude quake recorded at 11:15pm Thursday, about 15 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. Before that, a 3.7 magnitude earthquake was recorded at 9:09pm in the Oklahoma City suburb of Jones. The National Earthquake Information Center recorded all eight earthquakes.
Also there was a 3.4 magnitude earthquake recorded at 3:22am in southeast Oklahoma. …

Prime Minister Gordon Brown came under fresh pressure to reveal details of his Government’s dealings with Libya today after Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son said that deal with Britain had targeted Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and was linked to talks on trade and oil, the Daily Mail reports.
Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi said the “deal in the desert” specifically targeted the bomber but his name was never mentioned, and the prisoner transfer deal was signed at the …

Marking her captive son’s 23rd birthday with friends and family at Mitzpe Hila in the Galilee on Thursday evening, Aviva Shalit asked Gilad to forgive her “for failing to protect you and prevent the immense suffering you are experiencing”, Jerusalem Post reports.
“We’re sorry we haven’t managed to bring you home despite our great efforts,” she said, vowing to continue doing “whatever it takes” to win the release of her son, who was captured on the …

Terrorists in northern Gaza fired a mortar shell today at a kibbutz in the Sha’ar HaNegev region of the western Negev, Arutz 7 reports.
No one was injured in the attack, which was aimed at workers in the agricultural fields of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, located near the security fence.
The Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council area is located midway between Be’er Sheva and Ashkelon and is bound on the west by Gaza. More than 6,000 Jews live in …

Muslims in Malaysia have been barred from attending a concert by US hip hop band the Black Eyed Peas, because it’s sponsored by Guinness.
The concert, part of celebrations of Guinness 250th birthday, asks on its website “Are you a non-Muslim aged 18 years and above?” and if the response is no, access is not allowed, Reuters reports.
Muslims account for 55 percent of the 27 million people in this Southeast Asian country and are barred from …

A little girl snatched on her way to school was kept hidden from the world behind a series of fences, sheds and tents for nearly two decades, even giving birth to her abductor’s children in the suburban backyard compound less than 200 miles from the home where she was taken, the AP reports.
Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 when she was abducted from a South Lake Tahoe street in 1991, was taken directly to the …

Lockerbie terrorist Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi was sent home “to die” on the advice of just one doctor, who was not an expert in prostate cancer.
This advice was instrumental in persuading the Scottish government to release him on compassionate grounds, and allow him to return to Libya – where he received a hero’s welcome, the Daily Mail reports.
The official report on al-Megrahi’s health, which was released yesterday, said that no prostate cancer specialist would be …

A Polish lorry driver who fell asleep in his truck in the middle of a busy motorway after downing bottles of whisky and vodka has been jailed, the Daily Mail reports.
Magistrates reacted in horror as they heard how Slawomir Jablonski was found comatose behind the wheel of his HGV in the middle of the M20 motorway heading towards London. The 29-year-old trucker – who was more than five times over the legal limit – had swigged …

US Democrats were accused of exploiting the death of Senator Edward Kennedy yesterday after immediately trying to use his name to revive President Barack Obama’s flagging attempt to overhaul the US healthcare system, The Times reports.
Within hours of Kennedy’s death on Wednesday leading Democrats were trying to turn it into a rallying point for healthcare reform — something that he had called the “cause of my life” — and suggested that any legislation should carry …