German Police Arrested The Squirrel

Police in Germany arrested a squirrel because it was chasing a distressed woman around the city of Bottrop

 An "aggressive" squirrel has been arrested by German police officers after a woman complained it was stalking her.

Police in North Rhine-Westphalia received the bizarre emergency call on Wednesday from a woman who claimed the rodent was chasing her.

The woman, from Bottrop, tried to give the pursuant rodent the slip but eventually rang the police out of desperation.

 They agreed the animal was behaving in an "aggressive" way and brought it back to the station, where it was discovered to be suffering from exhaustion.

Now the squirrel has become an internet sensation after officers posted a short video online of them feeding the little rodent some honey. The video has since been viewed around 12,000 times.

A police spokesman said the squirrel would be sent to a rescue centre.

Design Runway planes directly office buildings in Sweden

Airports and cities don't get along for a few specific reasons-namely, air pollution, noise pollution, and plain old risk. As such, some designers think that a future of increased urban density could be an opportunity to mix things up. This concept for a new airport in downtown Stockholm is simply mixed up.

An architecture graduate student in London recently proposed a plan called Stockholm City Airport (or Airport City). The design would sends short-length runways directly in between office buildings in Sweden's capital. There would also be small terminals and distributed baggage claims designed to make the infrastructure that feeds the airport relatively unobtrusive. That is, if you can overlook the hideous high-rise tarmac and massive jetliners cruising through city streets.

We get it: it sucks to drive three hours from urban centers to catch a flight. However, building an airport in an urban center is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea. Just imagine how loud it would be to have airplanes taking off and landing in the middle of the city. Then you've got the exhaust fumes flowing down onto the sidewalks, with a stray trickle of jet fuel here and there. Then what happens when a plane needs to make an emergency landing or-God forbid-misses the runway?

The designer doesn't seem to give an explanation as to how they plan to mediate air or noise pollution-not to mention how pedestrians or cyclists would deal with the incredible wind power generated by takeoff-or really how it would affect traffic in the city.

But then, the whole idea behind the project was, according to Dezeen, to look at how a "utopian dream" could be implemented in reality. In fact, there's a very long history of engineers and architects imagining airports in cities, from a circular urban runway from 1919 to a tower-elevated landing area for future aircraft from 1957. As history has taught us, though, utopias tend not to work out. Especially when airplanes are involved.

Baby becomes first person in the world to have 3D printed skull

In a 17 hour surgery, doctors in China successfully replaced the abnormally swollen skull of a 3-year-old girl suffering from hydrocephalus with a 3D-printed substitute, the first such procedure ever carried out.

Hydrocephalus, once colloquially known as "water on the brain", is a medical condition which causes fluid to accumulate in cavities in the brain.

The girl's head had swollen to more than four times its normal size, leaving the skull extremely enlarged and very vulnerable. Her body could not support such a large and heavy head, so the girl, known as Hanhan, has been confined to a bed since September, according to People's Daily.

Hanhan suffered from several serious complications as a result of the hydrocephalus, including severe pressure in her head, poor blood supply, blindness, and ulcers on the thinning portions of her skull.

Doctors at the Second People's Hospital in Hunan province decided to initiate a ground-breaking "brain reduction" surgery that had not previously been successful.

The surgery, lasting for more than 17 hours, included a 3D-skull transplant, scalp reconstruction, and fluid drainage.

The 3D-printed skull was made up of three pieces of titanium mesh, designed to match the measurements of Hanhan’s own skull. 
Last year, a similar surgery was conducted on a 22-year-old Dutch woman who had the top section of her skull removed and replaced with a 3D printed implant. The operation was performed by a team of neurosurgeons at the University Medical Centre Utrecht.

Also in 2014, a Chinese farmer whose head was partially crushed in an accident

was also fitted with a replacement 3d-printed skull.

Ever since 3D printing was invented in 1980s, it has been widely used in many industries including medicine, biology, architecture, and engineering.

Researchers all over the world have made efforts in reproducing human organs by 3D printing. 3D-printed jaws, skulls, kidneys and livers have all been successfully created by scientists.

Earlier this year, four Hong Kong patients with bow legs were treated with 3D-printed technology, meaning they did not have to undergo lengthy hospital stays and painful treatment or spend months with large metal frames pinned to their legs.

The hospital said that following the surgery, Hanhan would require more surgeries before being fully recovered. The hospital is not charging her family for the procedures

Stork loses catch to hungry crocodile

A stork got a heck of a surprise when it came beak to snout with a killer crocodile.

The hunting bird looked like it might lose more than its lunch as a the reptile's jaws came within inches of its head.

The yellow-billed stork was fishing on the Siwadu lake at a game reserve in Tanzania when it spotted the head of a tiger fish floating in the water.

It was about to tuck into it lucky discovery when a peckish crocodile swooped in and snatched the fish right out of the stork's beak.

In this stunning series of images, the crocodile is seen coming within inches of feasting on the stork - and in one image it looks like the stork may be in for it.

But happy with its fishy catch, the content crocodile left the stork to continue fishing.

Photographer Mark Sheridan Johnson captured the images at the Selous Game Reserve, where he works as a safari guide.

Mark, 35, said: "I noticed the stork was playing with something in the water, it turned out to be the head of a tiger fish.

"While playing with the fish head the stork attracted the attention of a young crocodile, who came swimming in at speed to steal the bird's dinner.

"Once the croc had the fish, the stork realised the battle was lost, so decided to carry on fishing near the crocodile.

"You will quite often see these storks fishing close by to crocodiles, they know that as the croc moves along the shoreline of the lake, it will scare fish away from it, which the stork will catch.

"Similarly you'll find different species of birds such as the yellow-billed stork and the spoonbill hunting side by side, this is called 'twin hunting strategy'.

"These bird and crocs live in general harmony, but sometimes the crocs do kill them."