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The American owner of a wildlife park in the Mexican resort of Tulum has died after being kicked, bit and sat on by a camel, and authorities have seized the private facility’s animals pending an investigation.

Rescuers had to use a rope tied to a pickup truck to pull the enraged camel off the body of Richard Mileski of Chicago, Illinois, according to Tulum Civil Defense official Alberto Canto. He said Mileski was 70 years old and the attack took place on Monday. Other sources said Mileski was 60.

“The camel kicked and bit him practically to death, and when he was almost dead, he sat on him,” said Canto. “Between the blows and the weight of the camel on top of him, he was asphyxiated.”

Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön, best-selling author of When Things Fall Apart, believes that failure is a natural part of the human experience — so we should learn how to do it well. Chödrön began exploring Buddhist teachings after a traumatic divorce to her second husband led her on a search to ease her pain. She learned what to do when your life falls apart: “Fail, fail again, fail better,” she says.

On her upcoming “Super Soul Sunday” appearance, Chödrön joins Oprah for an uplifting conversation about her spiritual journey. In the above clip, she discusses a recent graduation speech she gave at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo.

“I said, ‘I think the most important thing for you kids going out into the world right now is to know how to fail really well,'” Chödrön says. “[Learn] the skill of knowing how to…

Legendary fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, whose intricate and over-the-top gowns were for years a fixture of the social and political establishment, died on Monday. He was 82.

De la Renta died surrounded by family, friends and “more than a few dogs,” according to a handwritten statement signed by his stepdaughter Eliza Reed Bolen and her husband, Alex Bolen and given to The Associated Press. The statement did not specify a cause of death.

“While our hearts are broken by the idea of life without Oscar, he is still very much with us. Oscar’s hard work, his intelligence and his love of life are at the heart of our company,” the statement said. “

At the Metropolitan Opera’s first performance of John Adams’s “The Death of Klinghoffer” on Monday night, men and women in evening attire walked through a maze of police barricades, while protesters shouted “Shame!” and “Terror is not art!” One demonstrator held aloft a white handkerchief splattered with red. Others, in wheelchairs set up for the occasion, lined Columbus Avenue.

Political figures, including former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, joined a rally, several hundred strong at Lincoln Center, to denounce an opera that has become the object of a charged debate about art, anti-Semitism and politics.

But after months of escalating protests, including threats of opera officials and online harassment of the cast, “Klinghoffer” finally went on, only a few minutes late. There were cheers when David Robertson, the conductor, arrived in the pit and a few boos after the opening “Chorus of Exiled Palestinians” ended.