Iran ambitious space program: Set to send Cat to the space.

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Country’s senior space program official, Mohammad Ebrahimi, said Iran's next space capsule could carry the Persian cat. So far, Iran has reportedly sent worms, a turtle, and a mouse into space. Moreover, the country claims that in February it successfully shot a monkey outside Earth's atmosphere and returned it safely. Though photos raised questions about whether the same animal was shown in pre- and post-flight images. 
So who’s next? Perhaps, finally a human… 

Check out Photos of The World's Largest Living Cat (Liger)

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With a name like Hercules, you know he's got to be big.But at 922 pounds, big is an understatement for the world's largest living cat, according to the 2014 Guinness Book of World Records.Hercules is a liger -- the hybrid offspring of a male lion and a tigress -- who lives at the Myrtle Beach Safari wildlife preserve in South Carolina. He is 131 inches long, and measures 49 inches tall at the shoulder. Ligers, which do not exist in the wild, can grow to twice the size of their parents and weigh about a hundred times more than the average house cat.

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Boko Haram’s Secrets: Kabiru Sokoto Ready To Let The Cat Out Of The Bag

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The kingpin of the Boko Haram Sect, Kabiru Umar, a.k.a Kabiru Sokoto, currently undergoing trial for his role in several bombings across the country in 2011, has volunteered names of the sect members that bombed St. Theresa’s Catholic Church at Madalla, Niger State, in 2011, the Nigerian Police Force, yesterday, told the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.

The 2011 attack resulted in the death of 44 persons and wounded 75 others while Christmas day church service was in progress.

However, a lead Police investigator who was masked for security reasons, in his testimony before the court yesterday, stressed that Sokoto, who is facing a 2-count terrorism charge, confessed that though he got prior information that the attack would take place, he was not part of the terror squad that eventually struck the church.

WORRISOME !!! African lion kills female intern at private American big cat sanctuary

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A female intern-volunteer was killed Wednesday by a lion at a private wild animal park in Central California, and state and local authorities were trying to determine what might have caused the fatal attack.

Cat Haven founder and executive director Dale Anderson was crying as he read a one-sentence statement about the fatal mauling at the exotic animal zoo he has operated since 1993.

The 26-year-old intern was attacked and killed when she entered the lion’s enclosure, Anderson said, but he refused to answer questions or provide more details.

Mum Is awoken By Cat To Find a 6 Foot Python Wrapped around her 2-year-old’s arm (PHOTOS)

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Injuries: Mrs Guthrie with her daughter Zara,
who was bitten three times in the hand as her mother
 tried  to prise the snake away from her child.
She was treated at hospital but the python’s bites were not venomous

An Australian woman was awoken by her hissing cat early Sunday to find a python wrapped around the arm of her 2-year-old daughter. Tess Guthrie, a 22-year-old from Lismore, New South Wales, said the 6-foot pytho was wrapped three times around her daughter’s arm. “I thought I was having a nightmare,” Guthrie told a local television news station. “It was only because the cat was hissing that I woke up and saw the snake with its body wrapped around my daughter Zara’s arm.”