MEAUX, France: A near-complete skeleton of a mammoth which lived between 200,000 and 500,000 years ago has been found near Paris, the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research said yesterday. The remains were discovered at Changis-sur-Marne, northeast of Paris. They included a femur, a complete pelvis, jawbones and four connected vertebrae. The mammoth, named “Helmut” by the team that found it, is estimated to have been between 20 and 30 years old.
Nigerian army
kills four in raid
KANO, Nigeria: Blasts and gunfire rocked a town in northeastern Nigeria yesterday as troops killed four suspected Islamists in a shootout and arrested four others while raiding an alleged hideout, the military said. “Our men raided the house identified as their hideout in Gashua this morning. We succeeded in killing four of the gunmen in a shootout and arrested four others,” army Lieutenant Lazarus Eli said.
Spain’s top court okays same sex marriage
MADRID: Spain’s constitutional court upheld yesterday a 2005 law allowing homosexual marriage and adoption after an appeal, a court official said. Spain’s ruling conservative Popular Party had appealed the law, passed seven years ago by a Socialist government. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said his party objected to use of the word “marriage” in the law.
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