A man has been given a six-month jail term in France after he threatened to behead a female primary school teacher who had disciplined his son at a village primary school. French Education Minister Edouard Geffray said: "No teacher should be afraid to do their job. The child continued to misbehave in the second classroom and the teacher later told him off for acting up. The parent subsequently apologised, however a judicial complaint was made and he went before a judge in Toulouse on Thursday afternoon. It is thought the boy and a younger sister may now be moved to another school outside Le Fauga.

The father had threatened to kill a female primary school teacher for disciplining his son in class.

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Villagers held a mobile tower technician captive for two hours in Fatehpur districtPRAYAGRAJ: In a bizarre incident, a group of villagers after being fed up over poor connectivity for allegedly past two years, not only made a technician of a telecom company captive but also tied him with the mobile tower for around two hours in Hardauli village of Fatehpur district on Thursday evening.After being alerted, cops posted at 112 rushed the spot and freed the technician from the clutches of villagers. In the meantime, a group of villagers arrived at the spot and involved themselves into heated arguments over poor mobile connectivity.Victim said that one of the unknown villagers suggested that others tie him with the mobile tower, then only we will get better connectivity. Following this, villagers held a mobile tower technician captive and tied him to the tower. At the time of installation, residents had hoped that the issue of poor mobile network connectivity would be resolved. The police learned of the matter after the video began circulating widely.

Over four decades ago, authorities in Israel released 28 wild donkeys into the Ramon Crater, an extremely arid area of Israel's Negev Desert. The original plan by Israeli authorities was simply to return a lost species to its historical habitat for conservation reasons. In 1982, they selected Ramon Crater as the site to return the wild asses to their natural habitat.Today, the population of the wild donkeys in the desert stand at between 500 and 600 across the region. Their short, sandy coat, lacking the dark cross-shaped stripe across their shoulders, allows them to camouflage themselves among the desert rocks. Instead of pursuing genetic purity that could have jeopardised the project, Israel crossbred the Iranian onager with the Ethiopian wild ass.

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Fifty years later, Warren opened the capsule, turning an ordinary town gathering into an unexpected lesson in social history. The inclusion of a joint, a garter belt and birth-control packaging reflected the humour, openness and social changes of the 1970s. Did they expect future residents to laugh, be shocked or study the contents seriously? What would people in 2076 find strange about the way we live now?After opening the old capsule, Warren plans to create and bury a new one for the town’s future residents. Preparing a new capsule encourages residents to ask what their town values and how they want to be remembered.

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