Thinking of taking your pet cheetah for a stroll? You could face an $8 million fine
Updated 23 May 2021
May 23, 2021 00:39
JEDDAH: Whatever happened to taking your children to a pet shop to buy a small fish or canary as a pet? It seems those days are over, with a video of a young girl in Saudi Arabia taking her pet cheetah for a stroll.
The footage, which shows a girl aged about 10 struggling to control the big cat after letting it out of a car, sparked outrage and calls for action on social media.
To add to the confusion, the pet’s owner deliberately shared the video in defiance of National Center for Wildlife warnings against keeping wild animals, often referred to as exotic pets.
Saudi doctor brings sight to French patient using innovative procedure May 23, 2021
Hospital La Croix-Rousse in Lyon.
LYON A Saudi doctor on scholarship, along with his French colleagues, has managed to apply a rarely different method for implanting a new lens on a near-blind patient.
The operation, applied to very few worldwide, included a microscopic examination and extracting of the old lens to implant the new one. The procedure on the patient, performed under local anesthesia, took about an hour and a half.
Dr. Amro Abu Khashaba is a physician on scholarship at Hospital La Croix-Rousse in Lyon, France, and he specializes in retina surgery within the Saudi-French Medical Program.