Dubai Ruler praises 'heroes' who caught cat falling 30ft from balcony


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The Ruler of Dubai has praised two men who caught a cat that fell from a balcony onto the street below.

In a video, the two men are seen safely catching the falling animal in a blanket in the Murar area of Deira.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President, shared the video on social media and urged the public to help him identify them.

Sheikh Mohammed said he was heartened to see such "acts of kindness in our beautiful city".

"God have mercy on the merciful," tweeted Sheikh Mohammed.





The team

Videographer: Jear Velasquez 

Photography: Romeo Perez 

Fashion director: Sarah Maisey 

Make-up: Gulum Erzincan at Art Factory 

Models: Meti and Clinton at MMG 

Video assistant: Zanong Maget 

Social media: Fatima Al Mahmoud  

It's Monty Python's Crashing Rocket Circus

To the theme tune of the famous zany British comedy TV show, SpaceX has shown exactly what can go wrong when you try to land a rocket.

The two minute video posted on YouTube is a compilation of crashes and explosion as the company, created by billionaire Elon Musk, refined the technique of reusable space flight.

SpaceX is able to land its rockets on land  once they have completed the first stage of their mission, and is able to resuse them multiple times - a first for space flight.

But as the video, How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster, demonstrates, it was a case if you fail, try and try again.

Updated: August 25, 2021, 3:53 AM