Wild lion in Kruger national park, South Africa. Photograph: Jeffrey Barbee/The GuardianThe big cats are horribly easy to kill with poisoned meat, allowing poachers to hack off their faces and paws – but rangers are now on their trail
Warning: this article includes graphic images some readers may find disturbing
by Damian Carrington in Limpopo national park, Mozambique“That’s fresh, just a few hours old,” says Kris Everatt, pointing at a clear print of a lion’s paw in the hot dust. Read More...
Mad Men: notes from the break roomMad MenIn the penultimate episode of the season, we see Don Draper at his best and worst, and the Bob Benson mystery is solved (well, sort of)There are some episodes in which Mad Men gives you everything you hope for; when the drama that can seem to revel in its slow pace and cyclical themes suddenly ups the ante to deliver shock, surprise and – in the words of those Greeks – a bit of good old anagnorisis. Read More...
Photo via Cult Kits.Photo via Cult Kits.Guardian Sport NetworkFiorentinaThe Mario away shirt is one of the holy grails for collectors, but dig deeper and not all is what it seems
By Emmet Gates for The Gentleman Ultra
During the explosion of the vintage football shirt scene over the last decade, certain shirts have emerged as holy grails: the Arsenal “bruised banana shirt” of 1991-93, the away shirt USA wore at their World Cup in 1994, the home shirt in which the Netherlands won Euro 88, West Germany’s home entry for Italia 90, and pretty much any Napoli shirt from the Diego Maradona era. Read More...
