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This little piggy will not be going to market after escaping from a moving truck on the way to a slaughterhouse. The sow, who has since been nicknamed Babe, after the Hollywood film, was captured jumping 16ft to freedom in south China. A witness said the pig climbed over the backs of her fellow porkers before leaping out of the slaughterhouse van.   Miraculously she escaped unhurt and has now been adopted by police who responded to the incident in the Guangxi region. ‘She was safe and sound after her leap,’ said a police spokesman, ‘but found herself lost in the big city. ‘If we hadn’t have got to her he would have undoubtedly found himself at the end of a blade wielded by a local who would have enjoyed pork for days to come.’ He added: ‘She saw one chance of freedom by clambering on the backs of the other pigs and took it. ‘She deserves her chance of life and she has got it. She will never be eaten here.’ Babe is being kept at the police s...

Boy seen holding a cigarette and taking several puffs in a Chinese street Adult passers-by laugh but not one tries to take the cigarette away  Around 30 per cent of population in China, or 300 million people smoke  New footage has emerged of a Chinese toddler smoking a cigarette in the street as he is laughed at by onlookers. The pictures are believed to be of a child aged between two and three and despite the vast numbers of adults around, not one attempts to take the cigarette away from him. Passers-by and people on bikes passing can be heard laughing as the little boy holds the cigarette, taking several puffs of it like an 'old pro'. The footage was obtained by liveleak.com and has sparked fresh debate about the scale of China's tobacco habit. It is thought that around 30 per cent of the population of China smokes, which equates to 300 million people, with as many as 53 per cent of adult men in the country smoking. However, at the end of ...