10-year-old boy in Wales saved his father from being gored to death by a bull

10-year-old boy in Wales saved his father from being gored to death by a bull by heroically jumping onto a nearby tractor and chasing the furious beast away.
Tom Phillips watched in horror as a bull charged at his father Andrew - throwing him in the air like a rag doll on the family farm in Abergavenny, Daily Mail reported Thursday.
The huge 2,000lb beast then stood over the unconscious farmer, snorting and mauling his lifeless body with its hooves.

Terrified Tom climbed onto the tractor for safety, but he was faced with a dilemma. His father Andrew, 46, had forbidden him to drive the tractor and he's not a boy to break the rules.
But Tom's instincts took over and he turned the key to drive slowly towards his dad lying under the bull. He carefully aimed for the animal worried he might crush his unconscious father under the tractor's giant wheels.
He managed to move the bull away from his father and ran back to the farmhouse calling his mother Amanda.
Amanda dialled for help and finally an Royal Air Force rescue helicopter flew to the field to take barely alive Andrew to hospital.
He suffered 10 broken ribs and severe internal injuries from where the charging bull hit him.
But Andrew survived and was allowed home Thursday two weeks after being hit by the bull.
Mother Amanda said: "Andrew only survived because of Tom's amazing reactions to what must have been horrific for a 10-year-old boy to witness."
"He's my little hero and I can't tell you how proud I am of him."

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Gaddafi regime staked £12bn on secret deal in bid to open peace talks

The Libyan regime has been negotiating a secret deal with Greece to use $20bn (£12bn) of its funds that are frozen abroad for humanitarian relief to benefit both sides in the civil war. Officials in Tripoli say the move is intended to pave the way for the opening of peace talks.

The Independent has learned that talks were held in Tripoli between a team led by a former diplomat close to the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and regime members including the Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi. The meetings resulted in a memorandum of understanding that has remained unsigned because, diplomatic sources said, of warnings by the French government to the Greeks that any such agreement would appear to give Muammar Gaddafi legitimacy as Libya's ruler and undermine the policy of the Western coalition to keep him isolated.

Sources within the Libyan regime maintain that an agreement on the use of its assets for aid could lead to a ceasefire agreement and a process under which Colonel Gaddafi would relinquish power while a caretaker administration can be formed that includes members of the Benghazi-based opposition

 

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Secret agents wearing coloured wristbands as their sole distinguishing marks directed a civilian massacre in Jisr al-Shughur

Hundreds more refugees poured across the border into Turkey, bringing the total to more than 2,000 forced into flight in anticipation of a mission of retribution led by President Bashar al-Assad's notorious younger brother.
Maher al-Assad, the commander of the elite Fourth Division and Republican Guard, has vowed to take vengeance on the town after its inhabitants were accused of killing 120 government soldiers and policemen over the weekend.
One man who fled was able to make phone contact with his wife who remained in Syria. The woman warned her husband that the troops were so close "that they will soon level the town".
Jisr al-Shughur has effectively become the first town to fall from government control since the 11-week uprising against the president began. But its residents tell a story that differs vastly from official propaganda, one in which they are the victims of a government operation to crush all dissent, no matter what the human cost. As in many cities and towns across Syria, the residents of Jisr al-Shughur rose up in protest over the brutal tactics the government has used to repress dissent. The regime responded with overwhelming force.
According to one imam, speaking from a hospital bed in the Turkish city of Antakya, the first sign of trouble came as men dressed in civilian clothes, suspected members of the feared Syrian intelligence, or Mukhabarat, swarmed through the centre of the town. "They were all wearing colourful wristbands in order to identify each other," he said.

 

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