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:: The brave pig
 JoAnne Altsman, 57, of Beaver Falls, Pittsburgh, began having a heart attack in her holiday trailer on Presque Isle in Erie, Pennsylvania, on 4 August 1998. Her American Eskimo dog, Bear, did nothing but bark and break a bedroom window; but LuLu, her Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, rose to the occasion.
:: The doe is patroling
 Mopsy The Rabbit, a two-year-old Orange Rex doe, landed a burglar in court after raising the alarm by frantically thumping with her foot during a break-in at her owners' house in Fetcham, Surrey, on 30 June.
:: Strucked by lightning
 Viewers watching the last 12 minutes of a televised Castle Premiership football match between the Moroka Swallows and Jomo Cosmos in the George Gogh Stadium, Johannesburg, saw a group of players collapse suddenly after being struck by lightning.
:: Frog shower
 An unnamed pensioner called the Meteorological Office at Bracknell on 4 March to inform them that an early-morning shower over her house in Shirley, Croydon, south London, had been accompanied by a large number of dead frogs, which were scattered over her garden, her neighbour's house, and nearby streets.
:: The Crocodiles
 Whatever devastated the terrestrial environments 65 million years ago and exterminated the dinosaurs, it failed to force into extinction the ultimate survivors, the Crocodiles.
:: Shark Attack!
 The first sharks appeared on earth about 400 million years ago. Today there are more than 360 known species of sharks.
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The Brave Pig
by
Marianna Kommata
JoAnne Altsman, 57, of Beaver Falls, Pittsburgh, began having a heart attack in her holiday trailer on Presque Isle in Erie, Pennsylvania, on 4 August 1998. Her American Eskimo dog, Bear, did nothing but bark and break a bedroom window; but LuLu, her Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, rose to the occasion. "I was yelling, 'Somebody help me. Please help me. Call an ambulance,'" she said. "LuLu looked at my head. She made sounds like she was crying. You know, they cry big fat tears."
The pig headed through the trailer's doggy-piggy door into the fenced-in yard, pushed open the gate, which she had never done before, and walked into the road, where she lay on her back with her hooves in the air in front of passing cars. The first driver to stop was too scared to get out, but the second followed Lulu back into the trailer-home, found the ailing Mrs Altsman and called an ambulance. When it arrived, LuLu tried to get in with Mrs Altsman, but medics gently shooed her away.
Later, it was discovered that LuLu had cut her stomach on the obviously too-small doggy/piggy door. "My husband keeps enlarging it but she keeps enlarging, too,"' Mrs Altsman said of the one-year-old, 150lb (68kg) pig. Mrs Altsman recovered after heart surgery on 15 September. Doctors told her that 15 minutes longer without help would probably have killed her. LuLu was rewarded with a jam doughnut, and was honoured with the ASPCA's Trooper Award for bravery.
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