● <B>ISRAEL. </B>Prisoner gets compensation over cockroaches. An Israeli judge has ordered the country?s prison authority to pay an inmate over $ 1,000 in compensation after he complained of having to share a cell with cockroaches. Mordechai Yehudai filed a lawsuit complaining of poor hygiene, a lack of fresh air, broken windows and inmates who smoke in a handful of cells, a spokeswoman for the Israel Prisons Service said. «The Prisons Service mistreated the plaintiff in a number of ways, including ... broken windows, cockroaches as well as incarceration with smokers,» judge Irit Cohen wrote in her verdict, according to newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. The spokeswoman said the inmate?s cell would be cleaned up. Yehudai has been held in three different prisons and has had complaints about conditions in all of them.

● <B>KENYA.</B> Pilot recounts eight days lost in bush. A Kenyan pilot who survived more than a week eating leaves and drinking his urine after crashing in dense forest says he will continue flying, despite cheating death in his second accident in two years. Capt. Solomon Nyanjui was feared dead after his helicopter went missing during a November 15 flight from Isiolo town to the capital Nairobi. But heavy vegetation had cut his speed as he lost power and crashed near snow-capped Mount Kenya. «I realized even leaves are sweet because I fed on them for a while in the jungle,» an elated Nyanjui told reporters from his hospital bed, his wife at his side. As a huge search was launched, the veteran Kenya Wildlife Service pilot endured an eight-day ordeal, sheltering from torrential rain in the wreckage. «I could see the choppers flying above me but I am sure they could not see me or the plane due to the thick canopy,» he said. One night, a herd of elephants began rocking the damaged aircraft ? as he nursed several broken ribs inside. But after seven days, Nyanjui collapsed on the bank of a stream where he was discovered a day later by local farmers.

● <B>CHINA. </B>Cremator dumps half-burned bodies to save fuel. China?s worst fuel crunch in years has led a crematorium to dump half-burnt corpses to try saving on diesel costs, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Friday. Villagers in Hengyang county discovered the practice when an «unbearable stench» started coming from the site, and tried to block a road on Wednesday to stop funeral vehicles from delivering more bodies. The village sent people to investigate the smell and the South China Morning Post said they saw «crematorium workers putting half-burnt human remains and organs in plastic bags and throwing them into a nearby ditch.» «As the price of diesel rose, we saw more and more bags thrown out from the crematorium,» the paper quoted one of the witnesses as saying.

● <B>ENGLAND. </B>Man freed after 100 hours trapped in a lavatory. A retired Scottish school teacher was recovering on Monday after spending nearly four days trapped inside a men?s toilet with no food or mobile phone. David Leggat was locked inside the bathroom at a lawn bowling club near the Scottish city of Aberdeen after the door jammed and the handle on the outside fell off. The 55-year-old kept warm by dipping his feet in hot water but only managed to get about three hours? sleep a night in the freezing temperatures, the local Evening Express newspaper reported. He was rescued by a cleaner.