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6 men first to cross Drake Passage unassisted
Associated Press, Published on 29/12/2019
» LOS ANGELES: As freezing water thrashed their rowboat in some of the most treacherous waters in the world, six men fought for 13 days to make history, becoming the first people to traverse the infamous Drake Passage with nothing other than sheer manpower.
Police: 7 killed, 22 injured in West Texas shooting rampage
Associated Press, Published on 02/09/2019
» ODESSA, Texas: Authorities said Sunday they still could not explain why a man with an AR-style weapon opened fire during a routine traffic stop in West Texas to begin a terrifying, 10-mile (16-kilometre) rampage that killed seven people, injured 22 others and ended with officers gunning him down outside a movie theater.
Climate change turns Greenland into strategic, economic hotspot
Associated Press, Published on 23/08/2019
» TASIILAQ, Greenland: From a helicopter, Greenland's brilliant white ice and dark mountains make the desolation seem to go on forever. And the few people who live here are poor, with a high rate of substance abuse and suicide.
10 killed when small plane crashes on takeoff in Texas
Associated Press, Published on 01/07/2019
» DALLAS, Texas, US: All ten people on board a small plane were killed in a fiery crash on Sunday morning when the aircraft struggled to gain altitude after taking off from a suburban Dallas airport, veered to one side and plunged into a hangar, local authorities and witnesses said.
Pope kisses feet of South Sudan's leaders
Associated Press, Published on 12/04/2019
» VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis knelt and kissed the feet of South Sudan's rival leaders Thursday, in an unprecedented act of humbleness to encourage them to strengthen the African country's faltering peace process.
Doctors, rescuers labour in tsunami-struck Indonesia
Associated Press, Published on 24/12/2018
» TANJUNG LESUNG, Indonesia: Doctors were helping survivors and hundreds of people were searching debris-strewn beaches for more victims on Monday in the wake of the deadly tsunami that smashed without warning into houses, hotels and other buildings in the darkness along Sunda Strait.
Tsunami hits without warning in Indonesia, killing over 220
Associated Press, Published on 24/12/2018
» CARITA BEACH, Indonesia: Witnesses say a deadly tsunami that killed at least 222 people along Indonesia's Sunda Strait came with no warning.
Chinese 'gait' surveillance IDs people by how they walk
Associated Press, Published on 06/11/2018
» BEIJING: Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition'' software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden from cameras.
Hurricane Michael slams into Florida
Associated Press, Published on 11/10/2018
» PANAMA CITY, Florida: Supercharged by abnormally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday with potentially catastrophic winds of 250 kilometres per hour (155 mph), the most powerful hurricane to hit the US mainland in nearly 50 years.
Dow, S&P 500 at record highs
Associated Press, Published on 21/09/2018
» Wall Street delivered another set of milestones Thursday as a wave of buying sent US stocks solidly higher, driving the Dow Jones Industrial Average above the all-time high it closed at in January.