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1973 Veracruz earthquake | The 1973 Veracruz earthquake, also known as El Terremoto de Orizaba, occurred at 3:50 a.m. local time (9:50 GMT) on August 28, with the epicenter located in the vicinity of Serdán in the Mexican state of Puebla. It registered 7.0 on the Richter magnitude scale and had a maximum perceived intensity of VIII (Severe) on t... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Lead in Tasmanian town's water continues the uncertainty for residents living on bottled water |
Inside Eva Pagett's home in the tiny Tasmanian town of Pioneer, it has become routine to bath kids, brush her teeth, and even fill up her dogs' bowl with bottled water after testing by TasWater showed cadmium and lead in her drinking water tank.
"I have a 3-year-old that lives here. I mean, how do you bathe a 3-year-o... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Japan's Suga to visit U.S. for 'quad' summit with Australia, India -Kyodo | U.S. President Joe Biden holds a joint news conference with Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 16, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
TOKYO, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will visit Washington later this month for a four-way ... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
New tsunami mapping adds to Monterey danger zones | | UPDATED: March 29, 2021 at 5:15 a.m. MONTEREY — Every decade or so, state geologists use sets of scientific and computational tools to answer the question of what would happen to the California coast in the event of a tsunami. The newest maps marking these events have added several blocks worth of Monterey real estat... | Tsunamis | null | null |
At 31,923 Covid-19 cases, India sees slight surge in infections | New Delhi Last Updated at September 23, 2021 11:23 IST With 31,923 new Covid cases registered in the last 24 hours, India's daily new cases on Thursday crossed the 30,000 mark yet again. With this, the total coronavirus case tally in the country ha... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
COVID led schoools' closure in Europe | A student at the Sainte-Croix elementary school works as half of her writing desk is marked with a tape to ensure that safe distance is kept on May 15, 2020, in Hannut, Belgium. As American schools reopen for the fall—or attempt to, amid a new surge of coronavirus cases related to the Delta variant—what, if anything, c... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Column: 1,000-year-old tsunami gives glimpse of potential dangers ahead | A rupture along a fault on the boundary between two of Earth’s tectonic plates, the Burma Plate and the Indian Plate, produced a 9.2 magnitude earthquake, the third-largest in recorded history. It was so large, it even triggered smaller quakes as far away as Alaska, but that wasn’t its deadliest effect. It was a tsuna... | Tsunamis | null | null |
Chrisley Knows Best Alum Lindsie Chrisley Finalizes Divorce from Ex Will Campbell | Lindsie Chrisley and Will Campbell have finalized their divorce, about three months after news of their split first broke.
According to a copy of the divorce settlement obtained by PEOPLE, the former Chrisley Knows Best star, 32, and her ex, 31, had previously divided or sold their assets, including their Georgia home... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
Climate change is driving the worst drought Madagascar has seen in four decades | Shelley Thakral, communications and advocacy specialist with the World Food Program, joined The World's host Marco Werman from Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss the dire situation. Children sit by a dug-out water hole in a dry river bed in the remote village of Fenoarivo, Madagascar, Nov. 11, 2020. As a consequen... | Droughts | null | null |
Esholt Junction rail crash |
The Esholt Junction rail crash occurred on Thursday 9 June 1892, at the point at which the Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway from Ilkley divides, one branch in the direction of Leeds and the other Bradford, a short distance after Guiseley railway station. Two trains collided at around three thirty in the afternoon, resu... | Train collisions | null | null |
Rosmalen train accident | The Rosmalen train accident was a railway accident next to the street Burgemeester Wolterstraat near Rosmalen railway station in Rosmalen, the Netherlands in late December 1920. In the accident two freight trains collided and three people died. [1]
One of the two freight trains was on a side track in front of the Rosm... | Train collisions | null | null |
Famine in Yemen | Any disruption to food and fuel supplies coming through Hodeidah port could cause starvation on an unprecedented scale, warns Save the Children Multimedia content and case studies from Yemen available to download here. Hodeidah, September 19 – An additional one million severely food insecure children in Yemen risk fall... | Famine | null | null |
2019 Sunda Strait earthquake |
The 2019 Sunda Strait earthquake occurred on the night of 2 August 2019, when a magnitude 6.9 earthquake rattled Sunda Strait at a moderate depth of 52.8 kilometres. The epicentre was located 214 km from Bandar Lampung, the capital of Lampung and 147 km west of Sumur, Pandeglang Regency. The earthquake struck with a m... | Earthquakes | null | null |
2001 Marsh Harbour Cessna 402 crash |
NASSAU, Bahamas (CNN) -- The small aircraft that crashed last weekend on the island of Abaco, killing singer Aaliyah and eight others, was overloaded by hundreds of pounds, officials said Thursday. The extra weight -- and the way in which it was distributed -- most likely contributed to the plane's crash shortly afte... | Air crash | null | null |
2011 BWF World Championships | The 2011 BWF World Championships was the 19th tournament of the BWF World Championships, a global tournament in the sport of badminton. It was held at Wembley Arena in London, England, from August 8 to August 14, 2011. [1]
China clean swept all the titles for a record third time and became the first nation to successf... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Britain Has Finally Left the European Union. Here's What's Changing | When the clock struck 11 p.m. local time on Jan. 31, Britain officially left the European Union , after three and a half years largely marked by arguments, negotiations and divisions. The moment heralded the start of a new, uncertain phase in the U.K.’s national life. Britain’s lawmakers gave up their seats in the Euro... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Seacor Power Update: Missed Weather Warnings & More From Coast Guard Hearings | Months after the Seacor Power lift boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico, a hearing to investigate what led to the tragedy that left 13 of the 19 crew dead or presumed dead wrapped up on August 13. The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation heard testimony from 31 witnesses, many of whom were part of search and r... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Sydney McLaughlin Is the 400-m Hurdles World Record Holder. But Her Journey Is Just Beginning | For Team USA, the women’s 400-m hurdles is rarely a marquee event at the Olympics. But it has been quite awhile since the U.S. has had a hurdling prodigy like McLaughlin. Her race for gold in the Tokyo Olympics event was one of the top events of the Games.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, McLaughlin, then 16, became the young... | Break historical records | null | null |
54 African Countries 1 Entry Point | Senegal and Zambia unilaterally scrapping tax treaties with Mauritius has shaken up the African investment and legal landscape.
Senegal and Zambia have blamed “unbalanced” and “unfair” treaties
for their surprise decisions to terminate double-taxation agreements with
Mauritius.
Tearing up a tax treaty is highly unusual... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
America’s Lose–Lose Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council | On June 18, 2018, US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley stood beside Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State Department to announce the US’ withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). Haley spoke of the hypocrisy of countries with abhorrent human rights records sitting on the Council and criticized... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
1958 Grozny riots | The Grozny riots of 1958 occurred between 23 and 27 August that year in Grozny (Soviet Union). Although beginning as a small-scale event, it turned a major event in the history of the city, of Chechnya and of Russo-Chechen relations, starting a series of ethnic riots, to continue until 1965. The riots were provoked by ... | Riot | null | null |
Isle of Man and Lesotho sign tax agreement | The Isle of Man government has signed a tax exchange agreement with the African nation of Lesotho.
The agreement signed in September by the island's Treasury Minister and the Acting High Commissioner of Lesotho in the UK came into force this week.
The deal is part of the Isle of Man government's ongoing programme to de... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Club Cinq-Sept fire | The Club Cinq-Sept fire was a major blaze at a nightclub just outside Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, Isère in south-eastern France on Sunday, 1 November 1970. The catastrophe claimed the lives of 146 people, almost all of whom were aged between 17 and 30. [1] The scale of the disaster shocked the French nation. Subsequent off... | Fire | null | null |
Adele Roberts: Radio 1 presenter and former Big Brother star diagnosed with bowel cancer at 42 | Radio 1 presenter Adele Roberts, who rose to fame on Big Brother in 2002, has shared details of her cancer diagnosis on social media, and urged others suffering any health problems to get checked out.
Monday 25 October 2021 10:06, UK
Radio 1 DJ and former Big Brother star Adele Roberts has announced she has bowel cance... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
Mongolia Seizes the Diplomatic Moment | In the space of just five days, Mongolian officials have held high-level talks with China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States
Mongolian diplomacy is having a moment. In the space of just five days, Mongolian officials have held high-level talks with China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States. Mongolia is o... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
Family torn apart as boys are injured in ‘catastrophic’ SA crash that killed dad and grandma | A South Australian family has been torn apart after a dad and grandmother were killed and two boys injured in a tragic crash. The family, who are from Whyalla, were on their way to Port Pirie on Thursday when the ute they were travelling in left the road and crashed into a tree. The family were just half an hour from ... | Road Crash | null | null |
Dixmoor race riot | The 1964 Dixmoor race riot, also known as the Gin Bottle Riot, occurred between August 15 and 17 in Dixmoor, Illinois. After a woman accused of shoplifting a bottle of gin was wrestled to the ground by the owner of the liquor store and arrested, black residents took to the streets in anger. They picketed the liquor sto... | Riot | null | null |
Gas Explosion in Central China Kills at Least 12 | At least 12 people were killed and 39 seriously injured Sunday after a gas line explosion tore through a residential neighborhood in central China.
Responders to the early morning blast in the Hubei province city of Shiyan sent more than 150 people to hospital, according to a statement on the city's official social med... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Teen guilty of sex assault at Toronto's St. Michael's school should get three month sentence: Crown | The teen was found guilty in June of gang sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon, and assault after a locker room incident at St. Michael's College School TORONTO — A teen found guilty of sexually assaulting another student at an all-boys Catholic school in Toronto should spend three months behind bars, the pros... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
Emma McKeon has seven medals at Tokyo Olympics with gold in 50m freestyle and 4x100m medley relay | Emma McKeon has seven medals at Tokyo Olympics with gold in 50m freestyle and 4x100m medley relay
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Emma McKeon has won two more gold medals in Tokyo, taking her medal tally at this Games to seven — the equal most by any woman in any sport in ... | Break historical records | null | null |
2018 Broome flood |
The 2018 Broome flood was a severe flood that occurred in January and February 2018 in and around Broome in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. [1]
The flooding was triggered following record breaking rainfall. Broome received 1,502 millimetres (59 in) of rainfall in the first two months of 2018, the equivale... | Floods | null | null |
U.S. will withdraw from nuclear arms treaty if Russia doesn't stop missile activity, White House says | The U.S. government says it is freeing itself from the constraints of a nuclear arms control treaty with Russia and will begin withdrawing from the pact — which has been a centrepiece of arms control since the Cold War — on Saturday.
The American withdrawal had been expected for months. It follows years of unresolved d... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Would-be bank robber flees empty-handed | Police are searching for a man who tried to rob a Gold Coast bank yesterday afternoon. Police say the man was armed with a knife when he entered the bank on Griffith Street in Coolangatta shortly after 4:30pm (AEST). He demanded money but the teller did not comply. The man left on foot and no-one was injured. Police ar... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Two masterminds behind a $39.9 million SkillsFuture scam have been sentenced to a jail term of more than 31 years | SINGAPORE - Two masterminds behind a $39.9 million SkillsFuture scam, the largest fraud against a public institution here, have been sentenced to a jail term of more than 31 years combined for cheating, forgery and money laundering offences, among others. Ng Cheng Kwee was sentenced to more than 17 years in jail, while... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
Locust swarms plague East Africa as wildfires burn Australia | Strengthened by climate change, the Indian Ocean Dipole has made Australia drier while countries such as Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia become wetter and more hospitable to desert locusts. Having battled weather extremes of drought and floods last year, Kenyan farmer Mohamud Maalim hoped 2020 would bring a more favorable... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Bristol riots |
The Bristol riots refer to a number of significant riots in the city of Bristol in England. In 1794 the populace of Bristol were said to be "apt to collect in mobs on the slightest occasions; but have been seldom so spirited as in the late transactions on Bristol-bridge. " The Bristol Bridge Riot of 30 September 1793... | Riot | null | null |
Ryan Crouser of Team USA wins gold in men's shot put at Summer Games, breaks his own Olympic record | Updated on: August 5, 2021 / 4:31 AM
/ AP
Ryan Crouser wrote the note, stuck it in his backpack and brought it out to the field just in case.
"Grandpa. We did it. 2020 Olympic champion!" it said.
The world's best shot putter had a feeling he'd win. After he did just that on Thursday, he pulled out ... | Break historical records | null | null |
The Drilldown: 60 dead, hundreds missing after Brazil dam disaster | Up to 300 people are still missing in southeastern Brazil after a dam collapse at an iron ore mine on Friday killed at least 60. A new evacuation was called for late Sunday alongside a suspension of search efforts, amid fears a second dam nearby might collapse. Although sirens blared to alert residents of the second po... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Landmark class action over PFAS contamination in Australia announced by Erin Brockovich |
It's the largest class action Australia has ever seen — four times larger than the Black Saturday class action of 2009 — and involves people across the country.
Up to 40,000 people who live and work on land contaminated by the chemical compound PFAS are suing the Australian Government, arguing their property values ha... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Longest Lunar Eclipse of the Century to Take Place on Nov 19 | During the eclipse, earth will pass between the sun and the moon in the early hours of November 19, casting a shadow on the latter. NASA said the eclipse will peak at 4 AM ET (1:30 pm Saturday, Indian Standard Time (IST). The eclipse will take place on November 18 and 19 and people across the world will be able to catc... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
Covid changed shopping forever. Here’s what it means for your favorite stores | Academy Sports & Outdoors’ more than 250 stores shuttered for weeks in the early days of the Covid pandemic. But as lockdown orders eased and these stores reopened, many customers still didn’t feel comfortable coming inside to buy camping gear or a new basketball, according to CEO Ken Hicks. Items like bikes and treadm... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Five arrested over Brazil dam collapse | Police in Brazil have arrested five people as part of an investigation into Friday's dam collapse in Brumadinho. At least 65 people died when sludge engulfed a company canteen and neighbouring residential buildings. Prosecutors in Brazil say three of those arrested were officials from the mining company Vale, whose re... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Little Steel Strike | The Little Steel strike was a 1937 labor strike by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and its branch the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), against a number of smaller steel producing companies, principally Republic Steel, Inland Steel, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. The strike affected a to... | Strike | null | null |
Indian Famine Codes |
Famine had been a recurrent feature of life in the Indian sub-continental countries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, most accurately recorded during British rule. Famines in India resulted in more than 60 million deaths over the course of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Famines in British India were sever... | Famine | null | null |
Lori Dengler: Learning from quakes, tsunamis requires boots on the ground | Every day last week, Facebook has reminded me of a trip to Japan 10 years ago. I was part of a reconnaissance study of the Tohoku-oki or Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. I spent 10 days in some of the hardest hit areas of Miyagi and Iwate prefectures identifying factors that reduced or exacerbated impacts. The ... | Tsunamis | null | null |
Athens Polytechnic uprising | Hellenic Republic
The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred in November 1973 as a massive student demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The uprising began on 14 November 1973, escalated to an open anti-junta revolt, and ended in bloodshed in the early morning of 17 November after... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
10 most expensive celebrity divorces of all time | The news of Bill Gates and Melinda’s divorce created a flutter around the world. This took many by surprise, especially after a 27-year-old marriage.
In announcing their split, the couple announced they will continue to work together on philanthropic issues through their Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Below are som... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
RAC rescue helicopters sent to Williams after car carrying four people crashes into tree | Four people — including young two children — were airlifted to Perth today with serious injuries after their car crashed into a tree in Williams. Two RAC rescue helicopters were sent to the Wheatbelt town, 170km south-east of Perth, after the crash was reported at 9.37am on Pinjarra-Williams Road near the intersection ... | Road Crash | null | null |
1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash | On January 28, 1948, a DC-3 plane carrying 32 persons, mostly Mexican farm laborers, including some from the bracero guest worker program, crashed in the Diablo Range, 20 miles west of Coalinga, California. The crash, which killed everyone aboard the plane, inspired the song "Deportee" by Woody Guthrie. [1]
Some of th... | Air crash | null | null |
2008 California wildfires | The 2008 California wildfire season was one of the most devastating since the turn of the 21st Century. While 6,255 fires occurred,[3] about two-thirds as many as in 2007, the total area exceeded that of the previous years, far exceeding the total area of each year prior to 2007. [1] Throughout the year, 1,593,690 acre... | Fire | null | null |
Polish region revokes anti-LGBT declaration over loss of EU funding | A region in southern Poland has revoked an anti-LGBT resolution under the threat of losing European Union funding. The regional assembly of Swietokrzyskie voted in a special session on Wednesday to revoke the resolution, which was first passed in 2019 by dozens of Polish muncipalities. It is the first time a region in ... | Shipwreck | null | null |
VSS Enterprise crash | The VSS Enterprise crash occurred on October 31, 2014, when the VSS Enterprise, a SpaceShipTwo experimental spaceflight test vehicle operated by Virgin Galactic, suffered a catastrophic in-flight breakup during a test flight and crashed in the Mojave Desert near Cantil, California. [1][2] Co-pilot Michael Alsbury was k... | Air crash | null | null |
Lunar Eclipse 2021: Super Flower Blood Moon on May 26. Check Timings, Visibility in India | New Delhi: Are you ready for a super lunar event? The world is set to experience the first lunar eclipse of 2021, a super Moon and a red blood Moon all at once on Monday, May 26. So what does this mean? And will the super blood moon be visible in India? Here’s all you need to know.Also Read - '50,000 photos, 40 hours':... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
1894 World Allround Speed Skating Championships | The 1894 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 10 and 11 February 1894 at the ice rink Saltsjöbanen in Stockholm, Sweden. 19 skaters from six countries participated. [1] It is the first World Allround Speed Skating Championships skated outside off Amsterdam. The Dutch skater Jaap Eden was the defendi... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Swissair Flight 330 crash | Swissair Flight 330 was a regularly scheduled flight from Zurich International Airport in Kloten, Switzerland, to Hong Kong with a planned stopover in Tel Aviv, Israel. A bomb was put on the plane and detonated by the Palestinian terror group PFLP-GC. [not verified in body] This caused the plane to crash, killing all 4... | Air crash | null | null |
Coliban Water fined $150,000 for discharging wastewater into Snipes Creek | 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
A central Victorian water... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Woman dies after truck crash on Gingin Brook Road in Neergabby | A female driver has died after colliding with a truck near Gingin. The woman, 69, received fatal injuries after her white Hyundai collided with a white-and-red Kenworth prime mover just after 2.30pm on Friday along Gingin Brook Road in Neergabby. She was travelling west along the road and the 51-year-old male driver of... | Road Crash | null | null |
Man charged after bank robbery in north Regina | Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Copy Url A 36-year-old Regina man is facing charges after allegedly robbing a bank in the north end of the city. According to the Regina Police Service, officers w... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
History of Infectious Diseases | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is often described as an ‘unprecedented’ event, as the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) took many by surprise. However, from a scientific and historical standpoint, the novel coronavirus pandemic was entirely predictable. In fa... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
1949 Holland Tunnel fire |
On the morning of Friday, May 13, 1949, a hazardous materials truck caught fire while passing through the Holland Tunnel, which travels under the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey. One firefighter was killed and 66 civilians were injured as a result of the fire. The 1996 motion picture Daylight, starr... | Fire | null | null |
Brazil Battered by Drought | Prolonged dry conditions have caused the worst drought in central and southern Brazil in almost a century, according to Brazilian government agencies. The drought is expected to cause crop losses, water scarcity, and increased fire activity in the Amazon rainforest and Pantanal wetlands. Low water levels are noticeable... | Droughts | null | null |
Derelict boats leaking oil, rust and damaging Sydney Harbour, marine advocates warn |
When Pete Lazareff kayaks around Sydney Harbour, he is astounded by the number of abandoned boats he sees.
"I've been kayaking for a long time," the Balmain resident said.
"You see old diesel boats up around near the Dawn Fraser pool; you see the old things sitting there and bits of oily substance coming out the back.... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Blue Origin auctions seat on first spaceflight with Jeff Bezos for $28 million | Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin auctioned off a seat on its upcoming first crewed spaceflight on Saturday for $28 million. The winning bidder, whose name wasn’t released, will fly to the edge of space with the Amazon founder and his brother Mark on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket scheduled to launch on July 20. ... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
Collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil | BRUMADINHO, Brazil (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of a dam holding back mine waste in southeastern Brazil rose to 40 on Saturday as searchers flying in helicopters and rescuers laboring in deep mud uncovered more bodies. An estimated 300 people were still missing and authorities expected the death toll to incr... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
WHO setting up hub to make COVID-19 vaccines in South Africa: Tedros | The World Health Organization (WHO) is setting up a technology transfer hub for producing mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in South Africa, with Afrigen Biologics and Biovac to be involved, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday. "Today I am delighted to announce that WHO is in discussions with a consor... | Organization Established | null | null |
1960 U-2 incident crash | On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. The single-seat aircraft, flown by pilot Francis Gary Powers, was hit by an S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) surface-to-air missile and crashed near Sv... | Air crash | null | null |
Winter is coming, again: What to expect from Covid-19 as the season looms | A year ago, experts warned that the United States faced a grim winter if Americans didn’t mask up and social distance to slow transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus before “indoor weather” — aka winter — settled in for its long stay. We all know how well that warning was heeded. In January, cases topped 300,000 a day; Co... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Trevor Lawrence rookie contract held down by Collective Bargaining Agreement | Otherwise, former Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence would surely have the highest NFL rookie contract in league history. Lawrence has agreed to a four-year deal worth $36.8 million, including $24.1 million guaranteed, as the first overall pick of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Bradford was a Heisman Trophy winner, a can’t... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
North Macedonia to officially join NATO on Friday | By Aaron Mehta
The NATO ascension could cap a busy week for North Macedonia, as the country on Tuesday also began the formal application process to join the European Union. In a statement in Brussels announcing the move , Spasovski said that “the EU General Affairs Council has agreed that our country should start acces... | Join in an Organization | null | null |
Possible link between sick koalas and Portland Aluminium emissions under microscope |
Scientists will study the bodies of 40 koalas that were euthanased due to poor health to work out whether their proximity to a Victorian aluminium smelter caused serious deformities.
A similar study done on kangaroos living near Alcoa's Portland aluminium plant more than a decade ago found that many of the animals had... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
The meaning behind Ryan Crouser's gold-medal note to his grandfather | Team USA shot putter Ryan Crouser spoke with the media after winning Gold in the men’s shot put event and explained just how much it meant to him to bring home another Gold after losing his grandfather to cancer.
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TOKYO – On his first of what was certainly going to be six thr... | Break historical records | null | null |
The Biggest Celebrity Breakups of 2021 | With much of the world stuck inside for the bulk of 2020, it’s no surprise that celebrity breakups have been on a steady rise since last March. Before the pandemic hit, 2020 had already seen the surprise end of recent newlyweds Lena Waithe and Alana Mayo, along with Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler, but once quarantin... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Simulation of glacial calving and tsunami waves predicts climate change consequences | As natural disasters intensify due to climate change, accurate predictions of weather patterns and mechanisms are greatly needed to mitigate damage. Coastal regions will be the most affected by changing weather, with events such as tsunamis and hurricanes becoming more frequent and life-threatening. While most tsunamis... | Tsunamis | null | null |
1969 Newton Cessna 172 crash | On August 31, 1969, a Cessna 172 crashed in Newton, Iowa, killing world heavyweight champion boxer Rocky Marciano and two others. [1]
On Sunday, August 31, 1969 at 8:05 pm CDT, the Cessna 172 with registration number N3149X crashed in a pasture near Newton, Iowa,[1][2] approximately thirty miles (50 km) east of Des Mo... | Air crash | null | null |
China, Food Security and Geopolitics | This has not been a good year for China. The economy suffered a 6.8 percent economic contraction in Q1, followed by a 3.2 percent rebound (anemic by Chinese standards) in Q2. Relations with the United States remain tense and complicated. On top of that, heavy rains have caused massive flooding that has wiped away billi... | Famine | null | null |
Adelaide City Council fined $90,000 for failing to cap former Wingfield landfill site | Adelaide City Council has been fined $90,000 for failing to cap a former landfill site to prevent harm to the environment, in what the sentencing judge described as a "deliberate" and "unacceptable" act.
The Council operated the Wingfield Waste and Recycling landfill site at Dry Creek from 1955 until 2004 for profit.
I... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
CORONAVIRUS | UPDATED: Mon., Sept. 27, 2021 Outbreaks of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities increased in the past month with the surge of the more transmissible delta variant in Washington state. Pinewood Terrace, a skilled nursing center in Colville, had a nearly monthlong outbreak that resulted in 74 people testing positive for... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Researchers identify 28 new foods associated with disease outbreaks | CDC researchers identified 28 food items that caused disease outbreaks for the first time between 2007 and 2016 in the United States. The “novel outbreak-associated food vehicles” — as they were described by the researchers — caused 36 combined foodborne outbreaks. They included bison, frogs, kale, pistachios and pomeg... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak |
The 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak occurred when the Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacterium (originating from contaminated beef patties) killed four children and infected 732 people across four states. [1][2][3] The outbreak involved 73 Jack in the Box restaurants in California, Idaho, Washington, and Nevada, and ... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
1877 Iquique earthquake | The 1877 Iquique earthquake occurred at 21:16 local time on 9 May (0:59 on 10 May UTC). It had a magnitude of 8.5 on the surface wave magnitude scale. [2] Other estimates of its magnitude have been as high as 8.9 Mw and 9.0 Mt (based on the size of the tsunami). [1] It had a maximum intensity of XI (Extreme) on the Mer... | Earthquakes | null | null |
ALMA, the EU’s new programme to help young people find work abroad | The pandemic has deepened the unemployment crisis among young people, especially in Europe’s south. A new work placement scheme is now meant to counter youth unemployment across the bloc, the European Commission has said. Speaking in Strasbourg on Wednesday (15 September), Commission President Ursula von der Leyen anno... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
2013 Smethwick fire |
At around 11pm[1] on the night of 30 June 2013, a sky lantern landed on a Jayplas plastics and paper recycling plant on Dartmouth Road, near to the West Bromwich Albion football ground, at Smethwick, West Midlands, England, igniting the material stored there. [2]
The resulting fire was the largest ever dealt with by... | Fire | null | null |
Trump administration sends UN notice it plans to withdraw from World Health Organization (Update) | The Trump administration is withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization. The administration submitted a letter to the UN but the letter itself hasn’t been made public yet. The Washington Post reports that the U.S. needs to give a year’s notice before withdrawing . The notice of withdrawal was deliv... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Oakford crash on Thomas Road results in traffic chaos on Thursday afternoon | Emergency services were called to the scene at Thomas Road where it is believed four cars crashed into each other just before 4.30pm. St John Ambulance are at the scene. At least one person has been taken to Royal Perth Hospital for treatment. It remains unclear how many people are injured in the crash and the extent o... | Road Crash | null | null |
Propair Flight 420 crash | Propair Flight 420 (PRO420) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Dorval, Quebec to Peterborough, Ontario. The flight was carried out by Propair, a charter airline based in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, using a Fairchild Metroliner SA226. On 18 June 1998, the aircraft suffered an in-flight fire shortly after take-off... | Air crash | null | null |
2 killed in suspected cracker blast at New Tharagupet in Bengaluru | Bengaluru Two people died while 3 others were injured in an explosion near a godown in new Tharagupet area in Chamrajpet near the busy KR Market in Bengaluru on Thursday afternoon. According to the police and locals, the godown was a transit goods depot and there were around 80 boxes of firecrackers stored inside at th... | Gas explosion | null | null |
South Sudan rivals sign ceasefire agreement | Under the deal, signed in a hotel in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, the fighting is due to come to an end within 24 hours. In the past week, government forces have recaptured the two main cities under rebel control.
More than 500,000 people have been forced from their homes during the month-long conflict.
"These tw... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Sepp van den Berg: Liverpool reach agreement to sign defender from PEC Zwolle |
Liverpool have reached an agreement to sign 17-year-old centre-back Sepp van den Berg from PEC Zwolle for an initial £1.3m.
The Netherlands Under-19 international, who was also a target for Ajax, Bayern Munich and PSV Eindhoven, will officially join the Reds on 1 July.
The fee for Van den Berg - the Reds' first signin... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Katekavia Flight 9357 crash | Katekavia Flight 9357 was an Antonov An-24 regional aircraft on a domestic flight from Krasnoyarsk to Igarka in Russia that crashed on final approach in fog in the early hours of 3 August 2010, killing twelve out of the fifteen people on board. The accident investigation concluded that the crew attempted an approach to... | Air crash | null | null |
County reports 894 new COVID cases, 12 deaths | by: City News Service SAN DIEGO (CNS) – San Diego County reported 894 new COVID-19 infections and 12 new deaths, according the latest data. The numbers include batch tests and cases that would have been reported Sept. 14 through Tuesday, but were not due to a reporting error between the county and medical providers.... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
1998 Pymatuning earthquake | The 1998 Pymatuning earthquake occurred in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania on September 25 at 19:52 UTC. With a magnitude of 5.2 mbLg,[1][4] it was the largest recorded earthquake in Pennsylvania's history. The earthquake's epicenter was in the Southern Great Lakes Seismic Zone, about 25 kilometers (16 mi) southwest of ... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Biden Takes His 'America Is Back' Message To The World In Munich Speech | President Biden speaks from the East Room of the White House to virtually address the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday.
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President B... | Famous Person - Give a speech | null | null |
Outbreak Brief 76: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic | Outbreak Update: Since the last brief (22 June 2021), 2,615,379 new confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, including 57,505 new deaths, have been reported globally. To date, a global total of 180,844,523 COVID-19 cases and 3,923,825 related deaths (case fatality ratio (CFR): 2.2%) have been reported from ... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Hall of Fame Professional Wrestling Announcer Jim Ross Reveals Skin Cancer Diagnosis | The 69-year-old Ross announced his diagnosis via Twitter, writing that he’s feeling great and ready to attack the disease. Ross added that he’s waiting on a radiologist study to determine the best treatment option, which will likely be radiation.
The longtime announcer said that he’ll still be on commentary for Saturda... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
1934 New York Hotel Strike | The Fieldites were a small leftist sect that split from the Communist League of America in 1934 and known officially as the Organization Committee for a Revolutionary Workers Party and then the League for a Revolutionary Workers Party. The name comes from the name of its leader B. J. Field. Born Max Gould in 1903, B. ... | Strike | null | null |
o | Voters in New Zealand began casting their ballots Saturday in a general election that has Prime Minister John Key seeking a third term in office.
Polls indicate Key's center-right National Party is the most popular party, and Key is the front-runner to remain the country's leader. But that could be in jeopardy if oppos... | Government Job change - Election | null | null |
2020 Mauritian protests | The 2020 protests in Mauritius were a series of large rallies and nonviolent demonstrations held in Mauritius following the MV Wakashio oil spill. Protests came in three waves of marches on 29–31 August, 12–13 September and September 14–15. Demonstrator’s main demanded that the Mauritian government launch an inquiry in... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
1952 Farnborough Airshow crash | On 6 September 1952, a prototype de Havilland DH.110 jet fighter crashed during an aerial display at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England. The jet disintegrated mid-air during an aerobatic manoeuvre, causing the death of pilot John Derry and onboard flight test observer Anthony Richards. Debris from the aircra... | Air crash | null | null |
Ukraine, NATO countries start joint military exercises in Odesa | Ukrainian border guards patrol the Sea of Azov off the city of Mariupol on April 30, 2021. Klitschko Tells Germans he and Kyiv are Ready to Resist Russian Invasion 86 Downing of MH17: Exclusive Report from the Court Hearing in the Netherlands 54 Op-Ed: The Conflict Around Ukraine: a Tragedy of Mistranslation 46 The jo... | Military Exercise | null | null |
1962 European Athletics Championships | The 7th European Athletics Championships were held from 12–16 September 1962 in the JNA Stadium in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (present-day Serbia). Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. [1][2][3][4][5] Just before the meeting, the IAAF council approved the use glass fibre poles for pole vault... | Sports Competition | null | null |
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