Poachers have shot the last two white rhinos in Zambia, killing the female and wounding the male, at the heavily guarded Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park near Victoria Falls. The dead rhino's horn was removed.
A 50-ton bowhead whale killed off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it had survived a similar hunt around 1890 when that type of explosive projectile was last manufactured. The 49-foot male whale died when it was shot with a similar projectile last month; the older device was found as hunters carved it with a chain saw for harvesting.
Eric Clapton will be paid $1.5 million to perform a 60-to-70 minute concert at a private party in late July organized by Raymond T Dalio, president of Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund with more than $30 billion in assets. The performance is expected to be attended by 350 invitation only guests.
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