A strange report out of Zimbabwe, where a United States-registered cargo plane has been grounded after officials discovered onboard a dead body dripping blood and thousands of dollars in cash.
In his first interview since killing Hwange National Park’s iconic black-maned lion, Cecil, in July, Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer announced Sunday night he would be returning to his practice later this week.
A lion named Jericho, who CNN had reported dead on Saturday, is not dead, but is—thank goodness—still alive.http://gawker.com/cnn-cecil-the-…
CNN reports that, according to a senior park official, Cecil the lion’s brother Jericho, who is also a lion, was killed on Saturday in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park. Others have called this account into question. [UPDATED.]
On Friday, the hunter became the hunted.
The death of Cecil the Lion, slain by some bumpkin dentist whose life appears to now be hell, very quickly reached the point of hypothetical comparison, and today we keep moving down the line: eating chicken is “morally worse” than killing Cecil the Lion, says Vox’s Dylan Matthews. Now we must talk about why this is…
Authorities in Zimbabwe are searching for a Spaniard who is suspected of paying park guides €50,000 for the opportunity to kill Cecil the lion, The Guardian reports. Cecil, star attraction of the Hwange national park, was found skinned and headless on the edge of the park earlier this month.
A Zimbabwean government minister's speech urging women to stop using contraceptives because birth control is a western "ploy" that will give them cancer has been judged "alarmist."
A man who spent the night with an eight-foot crocodile in his bedroom says he never thought to check underneath his bed for monsters.
A woman and her boyfriend were attacked by as many as seven lions while they were having sex "in a bushy area" near the Zimbabwean town of Kariba, the Harare Herald reported today.
The Heritage Foundation has released its annual list of the world's freest economies and, wouldn't you know it, the Asia-Pacific region is number one. Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand are all on top while the world's largest economy, America's, barely cracks the top ten.
The three women in Zimbabwe accused of raping male hitchhikers during "ritualistic sex attacks" and saving up all the used condoms for creepy weird semen rituals have been charged with 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault, CNN reports. No word on what's happening to their condom collection, though. Is there a…
Zimbabwean Authorities have arrested three women for allegedly committing at least a dozen "ritualistic sex attacks" on male hitchhikers over a two-year period. For their rituals, the women reportedly collected used condoms and stashed them in "the boot of a car." Don't they have a Container Store in Zimbabwe?
When Zimbabwe's aging strongman Robert Mugabe called dibs on a toilet at a trade fair he meant it. A police officer who used it without permission now sits in detention for unauthorized crapping. The officer has asked for leniency.
[Alex Mupondi hangs one dollar notes on a drying line after washing them in Harare, Zimbabwe. Singles last years in Zimbabwe, which recently declared the U.S. dollar legal tender, and need to be laundered, literally. Photo via AP.]
Delightfully insane congresswoman Michele Bachmann has found more incontrovertible proof that Barack Obama is the Worst President of All Time: he is creating a so-called "global economy" where countries are "bound" to each other, economically. Who will stop this madman?
Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe was apparently not content with merely sporting a Hitler moustache. He clearly felt his crazy despot credentials were lacking something. Which may be why he sent a boatload of animals to North Korea's Kim Jong Il.
Today in the Gawker Book Club: starting now or so, Douglas Rogers is joining us to discuss The Last Resort, his new memoir about Zimbabwe. Asking him questions in comments is novelist, playright and screenwriter Damian Lanigan.
Zimbabwean dictator and overall monster Robert Mugabe is one of the world's top bad guys. But if you're running an ad agency in Zimbabwe, hey, work is work. So a firm called Imago—owned by Young & Rubicam, the US ad giant—made a bunch of ads for Mugabe's "re-election" campaign. Now Y&R is falling over itself to cut…
