■ UNITED STATES
Foot washes ashore
The shoe found on an Olympic Peninsula beach with the remains of a human foot inside has been identified as an Everest brand, size 11. The sock found inside the shoe is described as a Levi’s brand tube sock. The Clallam County sheriff’s department allowed photographs of the dark, hiking-style shoe on Tuesday. It was found on Friday by a woman camper on a beach about 48km west of Port Angeles. Authorities are trying to determine whether the shoe and foot have any connection with a series of five shoes and feet that have washed up on British Columbia beaches in the past year.
■ UNITED STATES
Mountain lion kills dog
A mountain lion crept through an open door into a house outside Denver, snatched a Labrador retriever from a bedroom where two people were sleeping and left the dog’s dead body outside, wildlife managers said on Tuesday. No one else was hurt. Officials didn’t know how many other people were in the home about 23km southwest of Denver. Wildlife officials later trapped the 59kg male cat using the dog’s body as bait and fatally shot it. Colorado Division of Wildlife spokesman Tyler Baskfield said the cat entered the house through an open door early on Monday and fled with the Labrador after the owners woke up.
■ BRAZIL
Lynch promotes meditation
US movie director David Lynch says transcendental meditation is the cure for Rio de Janeiro’s rampant violence. Lynch said he hoped to meet with President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva to discuss the possibility of offering mediation studies in the country. The director of Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive was in Rio on Monday to promote his new book Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity. He proposed bringing meditation studies to schools and universities, and said such a move “would end the stress among youths and free the country of violence.”
■ MEXICO
Migrants engage in risky sex
People who migrate annually to the US change their sex habits significantly on arrival there and increase their risk of catching HIV/AIDS, a Mexican/Californian study released on Tuesday said. Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans migrate to the US each year. Male migrants increase high-risk sexual practices including relations with sex workers or other men, under the effects of drugs and alcohol, or in exchange for money, food or lodging, said the study, which looked at 458 men aged 18 to 69 who arrived in the US in the past five years. Those who had relations with sex workers increased from 18.1 percent to 29.4 percent.
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