The World

Thursday

Stunned Qantas Airways passengers watched out their windows as a large python clung to a plane's wing during a two-hour flight from Australia's northeastern city of Cairns to Papua New Guinea. The 10-foot python fought to stay on the wing, pulling itself forward only to be pushed back by the frigid wind.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports when Alameda County deputies entered the home of Assif Mayr on Wednesday afternoon for a probation check, they found 15 kilograms of marijuana and 1.5-meter alligator in a tank in the bedroom. The alligator was taken to the zoo but died later.

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