鈥淲e honour and thank the people of Iran and especially the hackers. Baseej have guns we have brains.鈥�
鈥�Persiankiwi鈥�, a blogger who has posted a stream of messages about the Iranian election to social networking site Twitter, on denial of service attacks against official Iranian websites (Twitter.com/persiankiwi, 15 June)
鈥淭he danger caused by the dogs which carried rabies virus has increased.鈥�
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Xing Tianhu, deputy mayor of the city Hanzhong in Shaanxi province, China, which killed 36,000 stray and pet dogs in a bid to wipe out rabies. China is considering a law recognising animal rights that would make such a cull illegal (Reuters, 16 June)
鈥淔or homeless people, sun protection is an unaffordable commodity.鈥�
Gordon Farquhar of the Cooperative Pharmacy, which will hand out free suncream to homeless people in Edinburgh, UK (BBC online, 15 June)
鈥淚 was in total shock when the hospital said it had been transplanted into another woman.鈥�
鈥�Deborah鈥� from Bridgend in the UK, whose embryo produced by IVF treatment in December 2007 was mistakenly given to another woman. It was announced this week that she and her partner accepted undisclosed damages from the local health authority (Guardian.co.uk, 15 June)
鈥淩at Island will now produce generation after generation of eagles, oystercatchers and other birds.鈥�
Randy Hagenstein of the US Nature Conservancy, on the announcement that Rat Island in Alaska may be free of rats, after treatment with rat poison. Since arriving on a Japanese ship in the 18th century, the rats have decimated the island鈥檚 bird population (Anchorage Daily News, 12 June)