The name fireback comes from this bird's dazzling plumage.

I think that cat was looking to bite me if I hadn't run away!

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After a long courtship over the telephone, Asma Ahmed, a painter in Karachi, Pakistan, married her fiancé, Rafi-uddin Shikoh, a business consultant in New York, in a bicontinental wedding by Webcam.