29 stolen British cars worth over £1million found in a wasteland of Uganda

It was a sort of chance discovery of 29 stolen British cars when detectives trying to trace a Lexus stolen from London ended up tracking it to Uganda, thanks to the state-of-the-art tracking device fitted on the £50,000 SUV. The Lexus was found alongside a fleet of British cars worth more than £1 million.
The tracking device got activated as soon as it was taken from outside a property in west London.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 22 September 2015.

Thanks to the tracking device, the National Crime Agency used a smartphone app to trace the journey of the stolen RX450h 6,000 miles to the Uganda capital Kampala. And, they were stunned to find it alongside 28 other luxury cars which had been stolen from the UK by the gang of car-smugglers.
The stolen Lexus first went to Le Havre, in France from where it was shipped across the Mediterranean Sea and through the Suez Canal down to the Middle Eastern nation of Oman. It was next shipped to Mombasa in Kenya and finally transported by road to Kampala in a steel container.
It seems locals drive on the right-hand side and, hence, luxury right-hand-drive cars are in great demand in land-locked Uganda.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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Lynx prey mainly on deer and experts want to release into woodland in Norfolk, Cumbria and Aberdeenshire as part of an ambitious ‘rewilding’ scheme. The plan is to release the animals onto privately owned estates but, the woodland would not have any fencing and the animals would be free to roam around the countryside.
The plan devised by the Lynx Trust envisages releasing four to six of the cats at each site and each of them will wear a tracking device so that their movements can be monitored. The lynx are the size of a large dog and has powerful claws for climbing. The objective is to release them into areas that are rich in deer and trees.
The argument of scientists is that such an introduction will benefit the ecosystem because it would not only help to control the one million plus deer population in UK but will also boost the tourist economy. However, critics do not agree because by farmers are worried that the animals would savage their livestock and game birds.
They are after all animals and cannot be told to eat only the deer.

The warblers knew and flew away one day before April 2014 tornado struck

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The next day, devastating storms swept across the south and central US.
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