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Happy news above the fold and the rest (sigh) below. There is some happy news tonight. We begin with the Hindustan Times:
Elephant mother’s ‘reassuring hug’ to rescued baby is all about love. Watch
By Trisha Sengupta“This made my day,” wrote an X user while reacting to a video of a mother elephant and her rescued baby.
A story of the rescue and reunion of a baby elephant with its mother has gone viral on social media. Posted by IAS officer Supriya Sahu, the rescue operation by the Tamil Nadu forest department received applause from many, including Anand Mahindra. Sahu took to X to share a glimpse of a scene captured after the rescue. A video she shared shows the elephant's mother giving a ‘reassuring hug’ to the little one.
In case you don’t want to follow the story’s link to X, ITV has a more detailed story through Youtube:
From The Guardian:
Will Fransen was on a solo fishing trip south of Auckland in New Zealand when he was yanked into the water after hooking a big fish
A New Zealand man who survived more than 23 hours in cold waters and an encounter with a shark has been rescued after fishers spotted the reflection from his watch.
Will Fransen, 61, had set off on a solo fishing trip from Whangamatā on the Coromandel Peninsula, south of Auckland, on 2 January, but was yanked overboard after hooking what he suspected was a marlin.
And from CNN we have pictures of the week.