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• Vatican spokesman, deputy, resign over strategy differences
• Lion kills worker after escaping from enclosure at wildlife centre in US 
• Disney, Verizon Fios reach agreement to avoid blackout of ESPN, other channels

Vatican spokesman, deputy, resign over strategy differences Posted: 31 Dec 2018 06:54 AM PST A brief Vatican statement gave no reason for the resignations. Spokesman Greg Burke, an American, tweeted that he and his Spanish deputy, Paloma Garcia Ovejero, had quit to let Pope Francis appoint a new team in what was a "time of transition". A Vatican source said both Burke and Ovejero had wanted more autonomy from the Vatican department that oversees all communications, known as the Dicastery for Communications. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Lion kills worker after escaping from enclosure at wildlife centre in US  Posted: 31 Dec 2018 03:51 AM PST A lion killed a young worker at a wildlife conservatory in North Carolina on Sunday after it got loose from a locked space. Alexandra Black, 22, of New Palestine, Indiana, was killed after being attacked by the animal in an enclosure that was being cleaned at the Conservators Centre, news outlets reported, citing a statement from the Caswell County Sheriff's Office. The lion was shot and killed after attempts to tranquilise the animal failed, deputies said. A "husbandry team" led by a professionally trained animal keeper was carrying out the routine cleaning when the lion somehow got loose, the centre said in a statement. It wasn't clear how the lion escaped the area that was supposed to be locked, said the centre, which is closed until further notice. "This is the worst day of my life. We've lost a person. We've lost an animal. We have lost the faith in ourselves a little today," said Mindy Stinner, the executive director of the Conservators Center, according to WTVD-TV. Black had graduated from Indiana University in May with a degree in animal behaviour, according to her LinkedIn page. She had been working at the conservatory for about two weeks, her family said. "She was a beautiful young woman who had just started her career, there was a terrible accident, and we are mourning," Black's family said in a statement, according to news outlets. "But, she died following her passion." The centre said the lion was fatally shot to allow county personnel to retrieve Black. The facility was founded in 1999 and is in Burlington, about 50 miles northwest of Raleigh. On its website, the centre said it began giving public tours in 2007 and gets more than 16,000 visitors annually. It has more than a dozen employees and currently houses more than 80 animals and more than 21 species. The centre says it took in 14 lions and tigers in 2004 to assist the US Department of Agriculture with caring for animals that were living in "unacceptable conditions." This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Disney, Verizon Fios reach agreement to avoid blackout of ESPN, other channels Posted: 30 Dec 2018 09:44 PM PST Verizon and Disney were in a standoff over ESPN and other Disney channels staying on Fios TV, which has 4.5 million TV subscribers in the eastern U.S. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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