A teenager whose out of control dog savaged a woman shopper during a horror mauling has been put behind bars.

Josh Miller, 19, lost control of his pet pitbull terrier Nala and the crazed beast sank its teeth into Elaine McAllister.

Mrs McAllister had been out shopping when the ferocious dog pounced in front of horrified by-standers.

Shocking CCTV footage of the attack in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, shows Mrs McAllister being dragged to the ground while Miller desperately attempts to get the animal back under control.

Customers from a nearby shop and members of the public are seen running to try and stop the attack after the dog locked its jaws onto Mrs McAllister's leg.

Disturbing footage shows a van driver slam on his brakes and run over armed with a weapon in a desperate bid to stop the attack.

Check out the map of snow cover.

"I just watched a video about the coming winter and apparently snow cover over Russia into Europe is a record for this time of year," says Andy S.

"The data only goes back to 98 so bear that in mind, however snow cover has penetrated right into NE Europe and all of Scandanavia is already completely covered."

I'd love to see a link verifying that this is a record for this time of year.

Asia's seafood addiction is depleting the oceans and stirring diplomatic tensions. The region consumes 70% of the world's fish, a share poised to rise as the middle class expands. Fishing operators are searching for bigger hauls, while governments are increasingly protective of marine resources. The seas are churning with competition and disputes.

At 3 a.m. one October night, in a dark and smelly Nagasaki port in western Japan, a 300-ton steel fishing boat from the East China Sea was unloading its catch. Not a man among the tired crew was smiling. One fisherman sighed. "The haul is so tiny," he lamented. The boat contained eight massive tanks but six were empty. And most of the fish in the hold were not mackerel, the hoped-for prize. Instead, the fishermen were unloading smaller and less-pricey fish to market.

Nagasaki, long a base for profitable deep-sea fishing. His father established a fishing company in 1961 and enjoyed a plentiful business from the East China Sea throughout his lifetime. Nomura took over in 2005. In less than a decade, he shut down his operations. "There was no hope for the future," Nomura said.

Diminishing catches and increasing equipment costs battered his ambition, but Nomura said it was the unstoppable wave of Chinese boats that made him call it quits in 2014. "We have been interrupted by Chinese boats a lot." Nomura said it was not unusual to see a fleet of 200 to 300 boats roll into his traditional fishing waters. It was so dense that his own boats could barely sail through.

The Chinese operate legally, he admits, and they work in a zone where both countries have fishing rights. Still, Nomura said, the Chinese surge drowns prospects for traditional or smaller companies. "If we leave the East China Sea as it is, all the fish in the area will be China's."

The East China Sea -- bounded by Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan -- used to be a trove for Japanese fishermen, but the situation has dramatically changed in the last decade. The life of Toshiro Nomura, 67, tells the story.

Hyderabad's notoriously capricious roads played up again on Saturday when a road caved in all of a sudden at Safilguda in the suburb of Malkajgiri and two motorcycles, one carrying a couple, fell right in.

The injured persons were helped up by passersby and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

This is the third such incident of a sink hole in Hyderabad during this year's monsoon.

In Saturday's incident, the subsidence occurred where a Water Board crew had dig a pit to carry out some repairs, and filled it with loose gravel after their work was done. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) came by and built a road over it without checking the soundness of the earth.

Officials blame reduced rainfall, low level of Yangtze and human activities for lake drying out almost two months before low-water period

Parts of China's largest freshwater lake have dried up, with a huge patch of grassland where there once was water after the level fell continuously since September.

The water level of Poyang Lake in eastern Jiangxi province as measured by the Xingzi hydrological station had dropped to 10.6 metres on Thursday. The lake entered its low-water period of less than 12 metres on September 19, 54 days earlier than usual, state news agency Xinhua reported.

The report said tourists could now walk on the former lakebed in Duchang county and view flowering aubergine plants, as if they were wandering through fields.

Pictures show well-known Luoxingdun island in Lushan, a city that neighbours Duchang, high and dry and surrounded by grass. The island that used to be in the middle of the lake is currently regarded as a scale of the water level's ups and downs, rather than a navigation mark and lighthouse as in the past.

ZIMBABWE is currently battling its worst drought in 25 years after consecutive dry spells due to the El Nino weather phenomenon which has affected most parts of the Southern Africa region, government has said.

El Niño is a climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean with a global impact on weather patterns. El Niño-caused drought can be widespread, affecting southern Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Australia, the Pacific Islands and the Canadian prairies

Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri said El Nino resulted in below normal rainfall during the 2015/16 farming season.

Addressing journalists in the capital last Friday, Muchinguri said national dam levels are now around 41.9 percent, which is well below the normal average of 62.3 percent for this time of the year.

Dams in Masvingo are the worst affected, with most just 21 percent full.

Muchinguri said her ministry would soon approach President Robert Mugabe with a view to declaring the country a water shortage area.

A tornado has hit the coastal town of Ladispoli, Italy, with local media reporting at least one person dead.

According to reports, a man died in hospital after being struck by falling building fragments. The tornado caused two of the floors in the eight story building to collapse in Via Ancona.

Il Messaggero says the victim was a 36 year old Pakistani man.

Two others have been injured. Shops, cars and trees have also suffered damage.

Locals have begun sharing images and video of the aftermath, with one woman showing a broken window frame inside her home.

Italy has been hit by powerful storms that have left branches strewn across roads and flooding in some areas. A road in Rome was partially closed to traffic due to large branches blocking some of the roadway.

Citizens of Oklahoma and neighboring states felt a strong tremor on Sunday evening as a 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck some 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Oklahoma City. The nearby town of Cushing reportedly experienced structural damage and power cuts.

The quake struck some 2km west of Cushing at a depth of just 5km, US Geological Survey reported, revising the magnitude from 5.3 to 5.0.

Despite being a moderate tremor on the Richter scale, the shallow quake resulted in several buildings partly collapsing, also causing a power outage.

Instances of leopards entering human habitats in the state are witnessing a rise with 57 such cases being reported since January this year.

Wildlife experts have attributed these break-ins behind decline in prey base in the jungles and healthy rise in the number of big cats. Gradual encroachment in forest areas is also another cause behind the rise in numbers of leopard-human conflicts in state, said the experts.

Vipul Maurya, a wildlife scholar who carried out a research on leopard-human conflict alongside Alaknanda river said, "The prey base has declined in forests so the leopards are increasingly venturing near vicinity of villages with agricultural activities. Such areas provide food and water for the animal in sufficient quantities for it to thrive."

In a second attack by an Indian gaur in a week in Tamil Nadu, two children were injured while they were walking on Rifle Range Road in Kodaikanal on Sunday.

S. Divya (11) and T. Sivasankar (14) of Naidupuram in Kodaikanal town were rushed to the Kodaikanal Government Hospital.

Later, Divya was referred to Theni Government Medical College Hospital.

The gaur first attacked the girl. When Sivasankar tried to rescue her, the animal attacked him too, said the police. Local people chased the animal away from the area.

A week ago, a couple from Chennai on a honeymoon were attacked by a gaur in Sims Park in Coonoor in the Nilgiris district. Later, the woman succumbed to her injuries.

In Kodaikanal, attacks on humans by wild animals are becoming common.