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Tech tycoon’s doomed superyacht lifted to surface
Reuters, Published on 21/06/2025
» PORTICELLO, Italy - Salvage experts lifted Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht to the surface and began pumping seawater out of it on Saturday, 10 months after it sank off the coast of Sicily, killing the British tech tycoon, his teenage daughter and five others.
FBI arrests Wisconsin judge for shielding undocumented migrant
AFP, Published on 26/04/2025
» WASHINGTON - Federal agents on Friday arrested a US judge for allegedly shielding an undocumented migrant, escalating a struggle between the White House and courts over President Donald Trump's hardline deportation policies.
Fecal Matter makes a splash at Paris Fashion Week
AFP, Published on 08/03/2025
» PARIS - Paris Fashion Week witnessed a debut show on Friday from one of the most unusually named brands in the luxury clothing industry: Matieres Fecales, which means fecal matter in French.
South Africans mock ‘ridiculous’ Trump proposals
AFP, Published on 11/02/2025
» JOHANNESBURG - On the streets of Johannesburg’s student district, US President Donald Trump’s offer to accept white Afrikaners as refugees landed as both “ridiculous” and “lame”, among South Africans of all races.
Manslaughter probe begins in Sicily yacht tragedy
Reuters, Published on 24/08/2024
» TERMINI IMERESE, Italy - An Italian prosecutor has opened a manslaughter investigation into the deaths of British tech billionaire Mike Lynch and six other people who were killed when a luxury yacht sank off Sicily this week.
Dubai floods expose weaknesses to a rapidly changing climate
Bloomberg News, Published on 20/04/2024
» DUBAI - The heavy rains that flooded Dubai this week halted air traffic, damaged buildings and streets — and left climate experts and common citizens asking whether one of the world’s hottest and driest cities should be better prepared for extreme storms.
Why 2023 could be the hottest year ever
AFP, Published on 18/07/2023
» PARIS: Human-made climate change is supercharging natural weather phenomena to drive heatwaves roasting Asia, Europe and North America that could make 2023 the hottest year since records began, scientists say.
Manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin to be dropped: lawyer
AFP, Published on 21/04/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin over a fatal shooting on a movie set are to be dropped, his lawyer and sources to US media said Thursday, as newly appointed special prosecutors take over the case.
Alec Baldwin pleads not guilty to 'Rust' manslaughter
AFP, Published on 24/02/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Hollywood star Alec Baldwin pleaded not guilty Thursday to manslaughter over the death of a cinematographer who was shot on the set of low-budget Western "Rust."
UK cost-of-living crisis pushes mothers to the brink
AFP, Published on 26/01/2023
» LONDON: At an east London church on a bitterly cold winter's day, Beautine Wester-Okiya picks her way through boxes of donated baby clothes, toys and other assorted items destined for local people battered by the UK's cost-of-living crisis.