MORE than 900 sea turtles have been found dead along the coast in southern India, conservationists say, blaming illegal fishing near their sanctuaries.
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A PET parrot has helped police nab its owner's killer in the northern Indian city of Agra.
Police were struggling to solve the murder mystery until a key clue was provided by the dead woman's pet parrot, Hercule, The Times of India reported on Thursday.
Neelam Sharma, 45, was found murdered in her home on February 20. Her husband Vijay, editor of a Hindi daily, noticed the parrot screeching every time his nephew Ashutosh visited their house after the murder.
"During discussions too, whenever Ashutosh's name was mentioned the parrot would start screeching. This raised my suspicion and I informed police," Sharma told the newspaper.
Agra police official Shalabh Mathur told the Times that Ashutosh confessed to the crime on interrogation.
He said he had entered the house with an accomplice to steal cash and valuables.
But afraid that his aunt might recognise him, he stabbed her and a pet dog when it started barking.
The Times of India report said the bird, a namesake of Hercule Poirot, the detective in Agatha Christie's novels, had lived up to its name.
TWO rare early editions of Mein Kampf, signed by Adolf Hitler could sell for more than $US20,000 ($A22,373) at an online auction, officials say.
Nate Sanders, owner of Nate D Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles, says he knows he'll catch a lot of flack for putting rare 1925 and 1926 editions of the racist screed up for bid.
"But it is a piece of history. It is a very rare item," he explained.
Hitler was arrested and jailed for the attempt to seize power. He dictated Mein Kampf, two volumes of autobiography and anti-Semitic manifesto, to Rudolf Hess while behind bars to raise money for his criminal defence.
Both volumes' fly-leaves feature Hitler's signature.
Sanders said volumes of Mein Kampf from the 1930s are common, but a copy signed by the author is rare.
Sanders is also auctioning off a leather trench coat he said was worn by Albert Speer, a Nazi government minister who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the Nazi regime.
Selling Nazi memorabilia is prohibited in many European countries that saw the horrors of World War II.
Seven has fired off a letter of complaint to the Australian Federal Police following recent raids. Source: AAP
SEVEN has fired off a letter of complaint to the Australian Federal Police following recent raids on the TV network's offices.
The AFP raided Seven's offices in Sydney last week in relation to the network's intention to conduct a paid interview with convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby.
On Tuesday Seven started action in the Federal Court to "review and set aside the decision ... to issue search warrants" and have the material seized by the AFP returned.
In a letter to AFP Commissioner Tony Negus dated February 26, Seven's CEO Tim Worner also demands a "correction and retraction" from the AFP.
The letter says Mr Negus and his deputy Michael Phelan told a Senate estimates committee on Monday night that Seven had told them on February 14 and 17 that it had "no further documents".
This is not true, Worner writes.
"Seven disagrees that you have accurately represented or conveyed Seven's response to the AFP.
"At no time did Seven or its representatives make an unqualified statement to the AFP that Seven had no further documents or words to that effect."
He has asked Mr Negus to stop saying Seven had "no further documents".
An asylum seeker who died on Manus Island may have been beaten to death, Fairfax Media reports. Source: AAP
THE 23-year-old asylum seeker who died on Manus Island may have been beaten to death with a piece of timber after G4S guards stormed the detention centre.
Iranian man Reza Berati died and 62 others were injured after the February 17 asylum seeker protest.
A post-mortem examination has since determined Mr Berati was killed by repeated blows to the head, likely by a piece of timber, an unnamed Papua New Guinean police spokesman told Fairfax Media.
A preliminary investigation has also found the death occurred after guards from security contractor G4S, which runs the detention centre, entered the centre and tried to suppress the protest, Fairfax reports.
PNG police and local villagers did not appear to have been involved, according to the preliminary results of the investigation.
The police spokesman said shots were fired as a warning to calm the situation.
"Otherwise, the place would have been burnt to the ground," he said.
Deputy police commissioner Simon Kauba told Fairfax the investigation is continuing and could take all week before being finalised.
