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Japan tsunami: remains on beach identified as victim of 2011 disaster | Family of Natsuko Okuyama ‘extremely happy’ after remains identified as those of 61-year-old woman who went missing 10 years ago Skeletal remains found on a beach have been identified as those of woman who went missing 10 years ago in the 2011 Japan tsunami. Dental and DNA analysis this week revealed the remains to be ... | Tsunamis | null | null |
Half of all seabirds along south-east Queensland coast have plastic in stomachs: CSIRO |
The coastlines are being littered with millions of pieces of plastic that are causing harm to marine life, new research reveals.
The CSIRO says on average, 11 items can be found along every metre of coastline from the Sunshine Coast to the Gold Coast.
Professor Chris Wilcox said about half of all seabirds and a third ... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
1946 Antarctica PBM Mariner crash | The 1946 Antarctica PBM Mariner crash occurred on 30 December 1946, on Thurston Island, Antarctica when a United States Navy Martin PBM-5 Mariner crashed during a blizzard. [1][2] Buno 59098 was one of 4 aircraft lost during Operation Highjump. [2]
The aircraft, Bureau Number 59098, callsign "George 1", hit a ridge an... | Air crash | null | null |
Athletics: Venezuela's Rojas smashes women's triple jump world record to take gold | TOKYO -Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela jumped 15.67m on Sunday (Aug 1) to smash the world record in the women's triple jump with her last attempt, having already secured the gold medal.
The previous record of 15.50m was set by Ukraine's Inessa Kravets in 1995 in Sweden.
The win made Rojas Venezuela's first woman Olympic cha... | Break historical records | null | null |
Vatican police raid top offices in financial investigation | VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Vatican police raided the offices of the Holy See’s Secretariat of State and its Financial Information Authority, or AIF, on Tuesday and took away documents and electronic devices as part of an investigation of suspected financial irregularities, a Vatican statement said.
FILE PHOTO: A general ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
Ways to stave off starvation | Cash would be used to provide a single meal a day for one year to stave off starvation 1 November 2021, Peyvand Khorsandi & Paul Anthem A total 42 million people are on the brink of famine across 43 countries and the slightest shock will push them over the edge, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned today (1 Nov). An i... | Famine | null | null |
Cocoanut Grove fire | The Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, Massachusetts, United States on November 28, 1942, was the deadliest nightclub fire in history, and second-deadliest single-building fire in American history, claiming 492 lives. The "Grove" was one of Boston's most popular nightspots, attracting many celebrity visitors. It was owned ... | Fire | null | null |
Suspect wearing 'wig and fake beard' wanted for bank robbery in Baltimore, Ohio | BALTIMORE, Ohio (WSYX/WTTE) — Police in Baltimore, Ohio are searching for a suspect wearing a wig and fake beard during a bank robbery on June 26. Around 10:30 a.m., Baltimore Police and Fairfield County Sherrif's deputies responded to a robbery at the People's Bank on North Main Street in Baltimore. The suspect fled t... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
1960 Writers Guild of America strike | The 1960 Writers Guild of America strike was a labor dispute held by both Writers Guilds of America (WGAW and WGAE), against the Association of Motion Picture Producers. It lasted for 146 days (from January 16 until June 10, 1960, with network writers joining mid-March, although an agreement between the involved partie... | Strike | null | null |
Woman dead after being shot by Memphis police during stolen car investigation | A woman is dead after being shot by Memphis Police during an incident Wednesday afternoon in South Memphis.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has been called in to investigate. This is at least the fourth time TBI has investigated a shooting involving law enforcement in Shelby County this year.
Keli McAlister, spokespe... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
Alliance Air Flight 7412 crash | Alliance Air Flight 7412 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Alliance Air, a subsidiary of the airline Indian, from Kolkata's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport to Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi. On 17 July 2000, while on approach to its first stopover in Patna, the Boeing ... | Air crash | null | null |
1977 Encino helicopter crash | On August 1, 1977, a Bell 206 news helicopter piloted by Francis Gary Powers ran out of fuel and crashed into a field near Encino, California, killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears. [1][2][3]
The Bell 206 JetRanger was operating under Federal Aviation Regulation Part 91 on a noncomm... | Air crash | null | null |
2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident crash | On 22 November 2003, shortly after takeoff from Baghdad, Iraq, an Airbus A300B4-200F cargo plane, registered OO-DLL and owned by European Air Transport (doing business as DHL Express), was struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile while on a scheduled flight to Muharraq, Bahrain. [1] Severe wing damage result... | Air crash | null | null |
Seven hurt in Willesborough house explosion | Seven people have been injured after an explosion left residents trapped in a row of terraced houses.
The front of a property in Mill View, Willesborough, Kent, was totally destroyed in the blast, which started a fire on the street at 08:00 BST.
Two people were taken to hospital to London with serious injuries, South E... | Gas explosion | null | null |
In-Depth: Tsunami danger lurking off San Diego coast | SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - San Diego's coastline is more susceptible to a tsunami than previously thought. A new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America says that strike-slip faults found along the California coast could cause tsunamis. It was previously thought that only s... | Tsunamis | null | null |
Eagan shop was closed due to COVID | Updated: 7:44 PM CDT September 23, 2021 EAGAN, Minnesota — The pandemic forced a lot of businesses to pivot. Tina Rexing of T-Rex Cookie Company found herself in that position last year. "The pandemic kind of forced my hand in terms of what can we do to keep us afloat," Rexing said. The Eagan-based cookie company is... | Organization Closed | null | null |
2016 Lockhart hot air balloon crash | On July 30, 2016, sixteen people were killed when the hot air balloon they were riding in struck power lines, crashed and caught fire in the unincorporated community of Maxwell, near Lockhart, Texas, 30 miles (50 km) south of the state capital Austin. It is the deadliest ballooning disaster to ever occur in the United ... | Air crash | null | null |
Trump pledges to withdraw from TPP on his first day in office | Pivot or not, the future of the U.S. policy of engagement with Asia is likely to be a defining feature of a Donald Trump presidency, especially after the U.S. president-elect released a video on Monday (November 21) in which he pledged to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a major regional trade accord—on his ... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Cleveland Clinic fire of 1929 | The Cleveland Clinic fire was a major structure fire at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on May 15, 1929. It started in the basement of the hospital and it was sparked when an exposed lightbulb came too close to flammable nitrocellulose x-ray film. [1] The fire, generating poisonous gas and two separ... | Fire | null | null |
Federal government rips up Victoria’s controversial Belt and Road agreements with China | The federal government has stepped in and torn up four agreements made by the Victorian government with foreign powers, including two linked to China’s Belt and Road initiative.
In a statement on Wednesday evening, Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the contentious memorandum of understanding and framework agreement Vi... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Explosion at gold mine in China leaves 22 workers trapped underground | The Chinese authorities have deployed rescue workers at the gold mine, reported Xinhua, the state news agency. The accident occurred in Xicheng Township, which is located in the Shandong province of China. According to... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
American Airlines Flight 63 (Flagship Ohio) crash | On July 28, 1943 American Airlines Flight 63 was flown by a Douglas DC-3, named Flagship Ohio, routing Cleveland-Columbus-Dayton-Cincinnati-Louisville-Nashville-Memphis, that crashed on the Louisville-Nashville sector about 1.6 miles (2.6 km) west of Trammel, Kentucky. The aircraft descended from 200 feet (61 m) until ... | Air crash | null | null |
Australian swimmer breaks 100-meter backstroke world record | Swimmer Kaylee McKeown says the death of her father 10 months ago inspired her to break the 100-meter backstroke world record on Sunday at the Australian Olympic trials.
The 19-year-old McKeown had a time of 57.45 seconds at the South Australian Aquatic Centre to improve on the previous mark of 57.57 set by American Re... | Break historical records | null | null |
Lawyers: Residents smelled gas for months leading up to Dunwoody apartment explosion | Jasmine Johnson was still in bed Sunday afternoon when her dog began barking and jolted her awake.
The 30-year-old resident of the Arrive Perimeter apartment complex got up to see what was wrong. Moments later, an explosion shook her entire building, an emotional Johnson said Thursday morning. The screen door was rippe... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Physical, emotional scars slow to heal 2 years after Durham explosion | Durham, N.C. — The site of a natural gas explosion near downtown Durham remains a vacant lot two years later, and the emotional toll the blast took on many that day has likewise not been built over.
"I walk up the street every day. I walk right past it. It’s tough walking by it, seeing just the empty lot now," said Pet... | Gas explosion | null | null |
The temperature's rising but you can't swim at these Tasmanian beaches | With Hobart's temperature expected to hit 30 degrees Celsius today, make sure you check out which beaches are off limits to avoid wasted energy.
If you are looking to cool off, avoid swimming at Blackmans Bay beach south for the foreseeable future, where sampling earlier this year identified unacceptable levels of ente... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Where Darius is now...divorce from actress, near-fatal coma and his mum's miracle cancer recovery | Before social media and 24-hour access to your favourite stars, Popstars made household names of its contestants, and opened the floodgates for modern behemoths like X Factor and The Voice, as well as predecessor Pop Idol, the Mirror reports.
Back in Darius' day, the Popstars show created winning band Hear'Say and runn... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
1973 DeKalb–Peachtree Airport Learjet crash | On February 26, 1973, a private Learjet 24 crashed shortly after take-off from DeKalb–Peachtree Airport in Chamblee, Georgia, United States. The aircraft, registration N454RN, owned by a private corporation, struck birds shortly after lifting off. Air traffic control advised the flight crew of smoke trailing from their... | Air crash | null | null |
Kenya's locust hunters on tireless quest to halt ancient pest | As dawn breaks in central Kenya, a helicopter lifts off in a race to find roosting locusts before the sun warms their bo... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
1989 Sukhumi riots |
The Sukhumi riot was a riot in Sukhumi, Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, in July 1989, triggered by an increasing inter-ethnic tensions between the Abkhaz and Georgian communities and followed by several days of street fighting and civil unrest in Sukhumi ... | Riot | null | null |
1933 Imperial Airways Ruysselede crash | The 1933 Imperial Airways Ruysselede crash occurred on 30 December 1933 when an Imperial Airways Avro Ten collided with one of the radio mast of Belradio at Ruysselede, West Flanders, Belgium and crashed killing all ten people on board. The aircraft was operating an international scheduled passenger flight from Cologn... | Air crash | null | null |
Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity 2 completed its third successful spaceflight on May 22, 2021. | Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity 2 completed its third successful spaceflight on May 22, 2021. (Virgin Galactic) Virgin Galactic completed its third successful spaceflight with the VSS Unity on Saturday May 22, and the first ever human space flight from Spaceport America, New Mexico. VSS Unity achieved a speed of Mach 3 af... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
Justice News | Miami, Florida – This week, 60-year-old Paul Vernon Hoeffer was arraigned in federal court in West Palm Beach on charges that he called and threatened to injure two members of Congress and a district attorney.
The indictment charges Hoeffer with three counts of interstate transmission of threats to injure. According t... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 2174 crash | Aeroflot Flight 2174 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by an Antonov An-24B that crashed on approach to Saratov Tsentralny Airport on Wednesday 1 December 1971, resulting in the death of all 57 people on board. An investigation revealed the aircraft entered icing conditions leading to a loss of control... | Air crash | null | null |
Atmospheric River' Causes Disastrous Flooding, Mudslides in California | Exceptionally heavy rain caused debris flows and flash flooding that damaged as many as two dozen homes and buildings in California's Salinas Valley on Wednesday. In Paso Robles, unhoused people living in the Salinas Riverbed are especially in danger and local officials were working to alert them to the potential 20-25... | Mudslides | null | null |
2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity | Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano began erupting on March 22, 2009, and activity continued for several months. During the eruptions, which lasted for several months, reports found ash clouds reaching as high as 65,000 feet (20,000 m) above sea level. [1] In response, the National Weather Service issued a series of ash fal... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Gino D'Acampo says he 'couldn't care less' if wife Jessica had dinner with an ex-boyfriend | Celebrity chef Gino D'Acampo has claimed that he "couldn't care less" if his wife of almost 20 years were to have dinner with an ex-boyfriend. The Family Fortunes host, 45, made the revelation in an unearthed interview after insisting that his wife, Jessica Stellina Morrison, "loves" that he works with over 700 women ... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Shoalwater Bay Tribe Builds Evacuation Tower to Provide Tsunami Safety for Community | FEMA Region 10 Earthquake Program Manager Amanda Siok shares how the people of the Shoalwater Bay Tribe are proactively taking steps to protect their community from an earthquake and tsunami. The Washington and Oregon coastlines sit on the edge of two plate tectonics. The intersection of these... | Tsunamis | null | null |
Alitalia Flight 1553 crash | Tuninter Flight 1153 (UG1153/TUX1153) was a Tuninter Airlines international flight from Bari International Airport in Bari, Italy, to Djerba-Zarzis Airport in Djerba, Tunisia. On 6 August 2005, the Tuninter ATR 72 ditched into the Mediterranean Sea about 18 miles (29 km) from the city of Palermo. Sixteen of the 39 peop... | Air crash | null | null |
Northwest Airlines Flight 85 crash | Northwest Airlines Flight 85 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in the United States to Narita International Airport in Japan. On October 9, 2002, while over the Bering Sea, the Boeing 747-400 experienced a lower rudder hardover event, which occurs when an airc... | Air crash | null | null |
Pearse Street fire | The Pearse Street fire was a conflagration in Pearse Street, Dublin on 5 October 1936, in which three firemen died. The fire began at No.163 Pearse Street some time after 8.30 pm and spread next door to No.164. The alarm was raised at 10.50 pm and the Dublin Fire Brigade from the Tara Street station arrived on the scen... | Fire | null | null |
South Sudan becomes newest U.N. member state | South Sudan becomes newest U.N. member state
By Faith Karimi, CNN
South Sudan becomes newest U.N. member
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: South Sudan is an official member of the United Nations
The U.N. Security Council recommended the world's newest nation to the General Assembly
South Sudan celebrated its independence Saturday
... | Join in an Organization | null | null |
Laurel Run mine fire | The Laurel Run mine fire is an underground mine fire near the communities of Laurel Run and Georgetown, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The fire started burning in 1915 at the Red Ash Coal Mine. Attempts to control it lasted from 1915 to 1957 and recommenced in 1966. [1] In the 1960s, the United ... | Fire | null | null |
Jocky Wilson Cup |
The Jocky Wilson Cup (officially the PartyPoker.com Jocky Wilson Cup for sponsorship) was a professional darts team tournament that took place at the Braehead Arena in Glasgow, Scotland, on 5 December 2009. This one-off tournament, which was named after Jocky Wilson, a two-time world darts champion, was the last of t... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Angela Merkel’s austerity condemned Europe and Germany to decline | Yanis Varoufakis At the height of the eurozone crisis, one of Angela Merkel’s close advisers explained to me her driving ambition: to bequeath to her successor a stronger chancellery than she inherited. If so, as Merkel prepares to retire, she should be delighted. Germany’s trade sur... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Reasons and influence of lunar and solar eclipses | Eclipses aren't always visible to everyone on the planet, but trust—even if you can't see an eclipse happening, you're still going to feel the effects of this important cosmic event. Here's what you need to know about what causes lunar and solar eclipses and what they mean for you. There are two major types of eclipses... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
Beaches closed in Port Lincoln after 26 tonnes of sewage spill from bulk carrier |
The South Australian Environment Protection Authority (EPA) and SA Health are investigating a sewage spill in Port Lincoln yesterday. Council has closed public beaches while the investigation is ongoing
It is believed 26 tonnes of waste from a moored bulk carrier was discharged, with the EPA saying beaches west of Kir... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Crews Fire | The Crews Fire was a wildfire that burned east of the city of Gilroy in Santa Clara County, California in the United States. The fire started on July 5, 2020. It burned 5,513 acres (2,231 ha) and was extinguished on July 13, 2020. Burning approximately three miles east of Highway 101, the fire caused the evacuation app... | Fire | null | null |
Iberia Airlines Flight 062 crash | Iberia Airlines Flight 062 was a twin-engined Sud Aviation Caravelle registered EC-BDD operating a scheduled flight from Málaga Airport, Spain, to London Heathrow Airport. While on approach to Heathrow on 4 November 1967, the Caravelle descended far below the flight level assigned to it and flew into the southern slope... | Air crash | null | null |
UAE establishes new food security council to step up local production efforts | Related tags: Uae, Food security, Food production, Middle east According to the UAE Government website, the ECSF will help meet the goals of the National Food Security Strategy 2051 which includes making UAE first in the Global Food Security Index ... | Organization Established | null | null |
Afghanistan: Roaring tanker fire kills 7, injures 14 in Kabul | A searing blaze that raced through fuel tankers on the northern edge of the Afghan capital of Kabul has killed seven people and injured 14 others.
Investigators combed through dozens of smouldering tankers on Sunday and a petrol station caught in the flames that roared through the area late Saturday, said interior mini... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Get Ready for the Super Flower Blood Moon Eclipse Next Week | Much of the western U.S. will see an extra-large, eerily red full moon on May 26 Theresa Machemer Correspondent Later this month, the moon will put on a fantastic display with a name to match: the Super Flower Blood Moon Eclipse. Early in the morning on May 26, the spectacle will be visible across the western half of N... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
The week of heavy rain caused more mudslides covered parts of Norwood Hill at mile markers 94 and 96-98 | Mudslides on Norwood Hill closed that section of Highway 145 for nearly three hours Saturday afternoon. (Photo courtesy of San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office) The week of heavy rain caused more mudslides Saturday afternoon, when mud, rocks and debris covered parts of Norwood Hill at mile markers 94 and 96-98, accordi... | Mudslides | null | null |
Paratroopers from Serbia will be hosts to elite counterparts from Russia and Belarus for this year`s Slavic Military Brotherhood exercise | Paratroopers from Serbia will be hosts to elite counterparts from Russia and Belarus for this year`s Slavic Military Brotherhood exercise, which will last over 13 days between June 14 and 27. On June 14 the multinational tactical exercise with live firing “Slavic Brotherhood 2019” started lining up members of the armed... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Researchers identified what is known as a decuple weight with 10 times the reference unit mass of 11 grams among artifacts unearthed at a series of archaeological sites collectively known as the Sugu group | Artifacts newly identified as a decuple weight, right, and a trigintuple weight shown at the Nakoku-no-Oka historical museum in Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Sept. 1 (Junko Watanabe) KASUGA, Fukuoka Prefecture--Prehistoric people in Japan apparently used an advanced system of weights and measurements on a decimal bas... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Pan Am Flight 799 crash | Pan Am Flight 799 was an international cargo flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Cam Ranh Airport in South Vietnam that crashed on December 26, 1968 near Anchorage, Alaska. The aircraft involved was a Boeing 707-321C aircraft operated by Pan American World Airways. All three crew members died in the crash.... | Air crash | null | null |
San Diego’s Ardem Patapoutian experiences the dizzying, fragile joy of winning the Nobel Prize | Using Twitter can bring joy one moment, anxiety the next, something Ardem Patapoutian experienced recently after he posted a tweet praising a new study on acupuncture. The Scripps Research scientist realized that some readers might mistakenly think he was endorsing the treatment in his new standing as a Nobel Prize win... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
1984 Balkan Bulgarian Tupolev Tu-134 crash | The 1984 Balkan Bulgarian Tupolev Tu-134 crash occurred on 10 January 1984 when a Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 airliner crashed on an international flight from Berlin Schönefeld Airport in Schönefeld, East Germany, to Sofia Airport in Sofia, Bulgaria. [1] All fifty on board were killed. [1]
While on approa... | Air crash | null | null |
Acquisition | Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School for Social Research and Doctor of Philosophy in English literature from NYU. An acquisition is when one company purchase... | Organization Merge | null | null |
2020–2021 Khabarovsk Krai protests |
Protests began on 11 July 2020 in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, in support of the then governor, Sergei Furgal, after his arrest. [3][4][5][6][7] Subsequently, a few protests in support of Furgal also took place in other cities including Novosibirsk, Vladivostok and Omsk. [8][9][10][11][12][13]
In September 2018, Sergei ... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Canadian travellers fined $5,700 each for getting wrong COVID-19 test before returning from U.S. | Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Copy Url
It was a trip that cost a Vancouver nurse a lot more than she bargained for.
Brittany North, a registered nurse, says after a stressful year-and-a-half wo... | Organization Fine | null | null |
African Lion: National Guard supports continent’s largest military exercise | TANTAN, Morocco – F-16 Falcon fighter jets streaked by low and fast, while plumes of black smoke from steady artillery fire and dust thrown up by advancing M1A1 Abrams tanks drifted across the desert below as Africa’s largest military exercise reached its peak Friday. Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief, National Guard Bu... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Get ready to witness longest partial lunar eclipse of 21st century. Details here | The longest partial lunar eclipse of the century is set to occur overnight on November 18-19 when the Moon will slip into Earth's shadow for a couple of hours, according to Nasa. The eclipse will occur earlier or later in the evening depending on the time zone of people witnessing the phenomenon. The duration of the pa... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
2013 Shahbag protests |
On 5 February 2013, protests began in Shahbag, Bangladesh following demands for[13] capital punishment for Abdul Quader Mollah, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment, and convicted on five of six counts of war crimes by the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh. [14][15][16][17] Later demands included b... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
2015 Eglin Air Force Base helicopter crash | On March 10, 2015, a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter of the United States Army crashed off the coast of the Florida Panhandle during a training exercise at Eglin Air Force Base,[3] killing all eleven people on board. The helicopter was reported missing during foggy conditions at 8:30 PM. [4] The helicopter was ass... | Air crash | null | null |
United States Withdrawal from United Nations Human Rights Council | The Trump administration has withdrawn from the UN Human Rights Council over what the Trump administration calls the Council’s bias against Israel. First, let me point out that the UN Human Rights Council is a deliberative body of representatives of many nations with a variety of opinions and biases. The Human Rights C... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Southwest Airlines Flight 3472 crash | Southwest Airlines Flight 3472 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight operating from New Orleans International Airport in New Orleans, Louisiana to Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Florida. On August 27, 2016, the Boeing 737-7H4[a], with 99 passengers and five crew, 12 minutes after departure from New Orle... | Air crash | null | null |
1990 Detroit riot | The 1990 Detroit riot occurred on June 14, 1990 after the Detroit Pistons defeated the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1990 NBA Finals. The rioting resulted in 8 deaths and is one of the worst sports-related riots in American history. On June 14, 1990, the Detroit Pistons defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 92–90 in Game... | Riot | null | null |
SASB and IIRC merger targets simplified sustainability disclosure | SASB and the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) are to merge into one organization by mid-2021 with the aim of offering investors and companies a comprehensive corporate reporting framework to drive global sustainability performance. The newly formed Value Reporting Foundation, to be headquartered in Lon... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Niterói circus fire | The Niterói circus fire occurred on December 17, 1961 in the city of Niterói, Brazil. A fire in the tent housing a sold-out performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano caused more than 500 deaths. [2] It is the worst fire disaster to occur in Brazil. The Gran Circus Norte-Americano premiered in Niterói on December 1... | Fire | null | null |
Mecca fire of 1997 |
The Mecca fire of 1997 was a fire that occurred in the tent city near Mecca in Saudi Arabia 15 April 1997, killing between 217 and 300 people. The fire erupted in the overcrowded tent city, Mina, where an estimated two million Muslim pilgrims were gathered on for the first day of the Hajj, the ritualistic pilgrimage ... | Fire | null | null |
Famine in Ethiopia as the Tigray Conflict Worsens | By: Mark Leon Goldberg on June 17, 2021 On June 16th, the UN’s top humanitarian official Mark Lowcock told members of the security council that there is famine in the Ethiopian region of Tigray. Some 350,000 people in Tigray are living in famine... | Famine | null | null |
Ballet-loving girl diagnosed with cancer after doctors thought she had 'growing pains' | By Emily Craig Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 10:29 GMT, 8 November 2021 | Updated: 13:31 GMT, 8 November 2021 4
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A four-year-old ballet dancer who was wrongly told she had growing pains actually had cancer.
Charlotte Watson, now five, from Brighton, suffered fatigue last July and soon... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
Gas pipe that should have been replaced years ago overlooked before print-shop explosion | Southwest Gas said that “The cause of the leak and the subsequent explosion was premature degradation in a certain type of natural gas pipe (Driscopipe 8000)” Aug. 26 in West Chandler. –Photo by Lee Shappell for wranglernews.com
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Southwest Gas said that a type of natural-gas pipe in West Chandler that... | Gas explosion | null | null |
California wildfire smoke becomes health hazard as cities become world's most polluted |
Smoke masks. Eye drops. No outdoor exercise. That is how Californians have been trying to cope with smoke from wildfires choking the state, but experts say an increase in serious health problems may be almost inevitable for vulnerable residents as the disasters become more commonplace.
According to Berkeley Earth, a n... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Optus fined $10 million for misleading customers | A Victorian man who flew from Brisbane to Hobart on flight VA702 today has tested positive to COVID-19 and has not been allowed to board a flight to Melbourne
A Watch & Act warning is in place for a fire in the northern parts of Mokine, in WA's Northam Shire. Keep up to date with ABC Emergency
Optus has been fined $10 ... | Organization Fine | null | null |
'Understand your risks': Tsunami Preparedness Week kicks off on Vancouver Island | VICTORIA -- If you are near the coast of Vancouver Island and you just felt an earthquake or were warned a tsunami may be approaching, move to higher ground immediately. That is just one of the messages first responders across the island are sharing during Tsunami Preparedness Week. From April 12 to 16, emergency age... | Tsunamis | null | null |
Chandler explosion caused by human reporting error, prematurely degrading pipe, says Southwest Gas | Video footage provided by the Chandler Police Department shows the explosion at Platinum Printing on Aug. 26, 2021.
Chandler Police Department, Arizona Republic
A natural gas leak and resulting explosion at a Chandler printing business that left four people injured Aug. 26 was attributed to a human reporting error an... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Afghanistan crisis updates | September 2, 2021 | The question still remains if many countries across the world will recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan, and change the foreign policy accordingly. Here are the latest developments: Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada to be named Supreme Leader The Taliban's top religious leader Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada as Af... | Regime Change | null | null |
Oprah Winfrey to Deliver Commencement Address for L.A. All-Girls Private School | The Archer School for Girls will mark its 25th anniversary by hosting the mogul at its year-end ceremony.
By Chris Gardner
Oprah Winfrey’s breakneck pandemic schedule has a new entry: Delivering the commencement address on behalf of Archer School for Girls at the L.A. private school’s May 28 ceremony.
Winfrey, ... | Famous Person - Give a speech | null | null |
Cyclone Tauktae passed northwards along the coast of Maharashtra | On May 15, he turned 51 without any fanfare, and went about his usual work as the chief engineer on board Papaa-305, an accommodation barge anchored at the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation’s Heera Oil Field, around 70 km off the Mumbai coast. When his colleagues wished him for his birthday, he thanked them politely, an... | Shipwreck | null | null |
1956 Hawker Hunter multiple aircraft accident crash | On 8 February 1956 the Royal Air Force lost six Hawker Hunter jet fighters in a multiple aircraft accident. Eight aircraft from RAF West Raynham had been carrying out a 4x4 dogfight exercise at 45,000 feet (14,000 m). Upon completion of the exercise the eight Hunters diverted to RAF Marham but due to bad weather six of... | Air crash | null | null |
ThreeBridge Solutions and Keyot Announce Merger | MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ThreeBridge Solutions, a strategic provider of business and IT consulting solutions, and Keyot, a boutique consulting firm specializing in project delivery, workforce transformation and management consulting, announced this week that they have reached an agreement to merge into one organiz... | Organization Merge | null | null |
UN humanitarian allocates US$100 million to help people feed themselves | (New York, 17 November 2020): UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock today allocated US$100 million to help people feed themselves in countries most at risk from the growing hunger epidemic caused by conflict, economic decline, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of ... | Famine | null | null |
Shimla jaundice outbreak |
The Shimla jaundice outbreak is an outbreak of jaundice in the North Indian town of Shimla. [1] The first reported cases of jaundice in Shimla began in December 2015. [2] As of March 2016 the outbreak is still ongoing, and should continue without changes to Shimla's water system. [3] According to official estimate... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
‘I’m ready to do a backflip’: Ashland man wins $1 million in scratch-off game | Dennis “DJ” Gifford gets to claim his reward from the Platinum Jackpot, one of the dozens of scratchers available from the Virginia Lottery.(Virginia Lottery) By Samantha McGranahan Published: Nov. 9, 2021 at 1:47 PM EST RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - An Ashland man wins the top prize in a Virginia Lottery scratch-off, and is... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
Julianne Moore’s husband “dislikes” her sex scene | Celebrity | Federal Court Refuses to Lift Vaccine Obligation | Work Julianne Moore’s husband “dislikes” the sex scene she’s filming. Dear Evan Hansen’s actress is “healthy”, hating the idea that Bart Freundlich (23-year-old kid Caleb and 19-year-old Rive’s father) gets intimate with someone else on the camera. I think. If he’s us... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Alberta teens face $1,800 in fines for using unmarked crossing at railway tracks | Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Copy Url
In two separate incidents Thursday, three Airdrie teens were each slapped with a $600 trespass ticket after using a popular shortcut crossing CP Rail track... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Preparations Underway for East Coast Earthquakes, Tsunamis | In the scheduled March 17 LANTEX 21 exercise, a powerful 8.8 earthquake will be simulated at 36.0 North, 15.0 West in the North Atlantic; it will send a tsunami towards the North America coast. Image: NOAA Are you and your local officials prepared for a potential destructive tsunami along the US east coast? While most ... | Tsunamis | null | null |
2006 Beach Handball World Championships | The 2006 Beach Handball World Championships are a ten-team tournament in both men's and women's beach handball, held in the Petrobras Arena at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between 15 November and 19 November. [1] This is the second edition of the event. Matches are played in sets, the team that wins two s... | Sports Competition | null | null |
1971 San Fernando earthquake |
The 1971 San Fernando earthquake (also known as the Sylmar earthquake) occurred in the early morning of February 9 in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in southern California. The unanticipated thrust earthquake had a magnitude of 6.5 on the Ms scale and 6.6 on the Mw scale, and a maximum Mercalli intensity o... | Earthquakes | null | null |
'Heartbreaking' Madagascar is wake-up call to climate crisis | This picture made available by the World Food Program on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, shows a woman using a tiny amount of water she bought at a kiosk in Tsihombe, Androy Region, Madagascar. Hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk in Madagascar, the only place in the world right now where "famine-like conditions" have bee... | Famine | null | null |
Waihi miners' strike | The Waihi miners' strike was a major strike action in 1912 by gold miners in the New Zealand town of Waihi. It is widely regarded as the most significant industrial action in the history of New Zealand's labour movement. It resulted in one striker being killed, one of only two deaths in industrial actions in New Zealan... | Strike | null | null |
Tsunamis claim hundreds of thousands over past century | Over a quarter-million people have been killed in tsunamis over the past century, according to the data compiled by Anadolu Agency. According to the UN, which marks Nov. 5 as the World Tsunami Awareness Day, dozens of tsunamis -- Often triggered by submarine earth slides and volcanic eruptions -- have occurred in the p... | Tsunamis | null | null |
Trump withdraws US from Trans-Pacific Partnership | WASHINGTON — President Trump wasted no time on Monday carrying out a central campaign pledge by scuttling the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, one in a number of executive orders he issued. “We’ve been talking about this for a longtime,” Trump said as he signed the order in the Oval Office. “Great thing for the Am... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Debris in swollen Hawkesbury River causing problems for fishers and boaties |
Boaties and fishers are continuing to dodge debris submerged in the Hawkesbury River following last month's floods.
The maximum speed on most of the river was reduced to 15 knots as authorities worked to remove larger objects, including furniture, parts of caravans and chemical drums.
That restriction will be lifted o... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Comair Flight 5191 crash | Comair Flight 5191, marketed as Delta Connection Flight 5191, was a scheduled United States domestic passenger flight from Lexington, Kentucky, to Atlanta, Georgia, operated on behalf of Delta Connection by Comair. On the morning of August 27, 2006, at around 06:07 EDT (10:07 UTC),[2]:1 the Bombardier Canadair Regional... | Air crash | null | null |
TBI Agents Investigating Officer-Involved Shooting in Cumberland County | Updated 12/12/21 at 9:45am: The deceased individual has been identified as David Denman Talbert (DOB 05/07/1966) of Cookeville.
At the request of 13th District Attorney General Bryant Dunaway, TBI special agents are investigating the circumstances that led to the shooting of a man during an altercation with a deputy of... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
1956 riots in Iraq | In 1956, riots took place in Iraq in support of Gamal Abdel Nasser during the Suez Crisis, and in opposition to political prisoners held by the regime of King Faisal II of Iraq. Communists and Nationalists took to the streets in Najaf, and soon after the protests spread to Mosul and Sulaymaniyah. In November, 2 demonst... | Riot | null | null |
China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crash | China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 (CZ3456/CSN3456) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport to Shenzhen Huangtian Airport (now Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport). On May 8, 1997, the Boeing 737 performing this route crashed during the second attempt to land in a thun... | Air crash | null | null |
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