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Rock Climber Brad Gobright Falls to Death

The pair were abseiling down the face together on the same rope, an advanced technique known as simul-rappelling, when the accident happened, Jacobson was quote...

Nine Climate Tipping Points Now 'Active'

Q. How has scientific understanding of tipping factors modified during the last decade or two? Transcend that and we're liable to unleashing self-reinforced war...

Christmas tree shortage looms as holiday season approaches

The Third Annual Christmas Festival of Trees will be held in Fellowship Hall at Windham Hill United Church of Christ, 140 Windham Center Road Dec. 6-8. The sp...

New 4.8-magnitude quake hits Albania, death toll rises to 49

Turkish rescuers search at a collapsed building in Durres, western Albania , Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. The Health Ministry said more than 2,000 people were in...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone dies, aged 101

Nakasone, who was prime minister from November 1982 to November 1987, is known for building a solid relationship of trust with the late Hu Yaobang, a former gen...

Fecal flinger: Toronto man arrested for throwing excrement on passersby

Investigators once again said a bucket of feces was dumped on a woman on the street. Toronto police arrested Samuel Opoku , 23, on counts of assault with a w...

Heavy snowfall possible Sunday, Monday in MA

The storm system will cause widespread weather-related hazards through the Thanksgiving weekend as it tracks west to east across the lower 48, the National...

Trump tweets photo of himself as Rocky Balboa

But the image was completely fake news, having been Photoshopped using the declassified image of the dog he originally shared. Immediately the tweet was mocke...

Macron calls for transparent dialogue with Russian Federation at meeting with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation chief

Macron's call for intensive talks on how to shore up security in Europe, cope with volatile member Turkey and restore US leadership came as NATO Secretary-Gene...

4 confess to rape and murder of Hyderabad veterinarian

Cyberabad police commissioner VC Sajjanar said at a press conference that the accused - two lorry drivers and their accomplices - deliberately deflated one of t...

London police defend decision to drop Jeffrey Epstein investigation

Earlier the Met Police defended its decision not to probe a trafficking claim by Ms Giuffre against Epstein. "At first the Scotland Yard told me they were goi...

Dutch police says several wounded in stabbing in The Hague

Police said the attack took place in Grote Marktstraat, which the city's website described as one of its most important shopping areas. Police are searching...

US, Mexico, Canada negotiators making final USMCA push

In advance of American Thanksgiving, the three countries have been meeting to talk about potential alterations that would encourage the progressive Democrats ...

Iraq's Prime Minister Resigns After Weeks Of Anti-Government Protests

Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi will resign after almost two months of anti-government protests, according to a statement from his office. Iraqi Prime ...

United States free climber Brad Gobright falls to death in Mexico

Gobright also appeared in climbing films, including the short Safety Third , which focused on his gutsy free solo endeavors, and the 55-minute film The Nose...

Erdogan slams ‘brain dead’ Macron over NATO comments

Turkey on October 9 launched Operation Peace Spring to eliminate YPG/PKK terrorists from northern Syria east of the Euphrates River in order to secure Turke...

Trump briefed on whistleblower complaint before releasing Ukraine aid

Fleischer said Americans are "fair-minded people and even in the age of polarization, the opposition party and the majority, the party supporting the president,...

In Virginia, Bloomberg blasts Trump for Navy leader's ouster

Michael Bloomberg may think he doesn't need people to win this election-he just needs bags of money. Michael Bloomberg might perhaps imagine he doesn't need ...

President's European Union envoy denies sex allegations

Sept said she had pushed him aside and drove off in her vehicle, she told ProPublica and Portland Monthly . The incidents allegedly happened in years spa...

North Korea fires two 'unidentified projectiles', South Korea says

Its first successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) came on July 4 - US Independence Day - in 2017 . Last month, it fired two "sup...

NYC Thanksgiving parade balloons fly after fears winds would ground them

Spectators lined up a half-dozen deep along the route on this gusty fall day, some even had been waiting since 5:30 a.m. A " Green Eggs and Ham " balloon join...

London Bridge Closed Off After Gunshots Heard

Part of the bridge has been cordoned off and people have been evacuated from the area. A BBC journalist said he was walking across the bridge when he saw wh...

Roadside bomb kills 15 civilians in northern Afghanistan

Afghan officials said Thursday that separate explosions in the country's north killed at least 16 people, nearly all of them women and young girls. A few hour...

Iraqi prime minister says he will resign: statement

Earlier on Friday, Al-Sistani said that parliament, which elected the year-old government of Abdul Mahdi, should "reconsider its options". The announcement ca...

Hope Uddhav Thackeray will join us to get more State autonomy: DMK

The 59-year-old was chosen as the chief ministerial face of the Maha Vikas Aghadi, an alliance formed by the Sena, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)...

Britain's PM Boris Johnson pledges Brexit by end of January

British Conservative Party set to complain to the broadcasting regulator after elected representatives being shut out of the general election TV debate on clima...

18000-year-old frozen puppy found in Siberia

Now, the key question following the outstanding discovery is whether he is a dog or a wolf, or perhaps an early ancestor of both. So far, DNA testing in Swede...

Thousands of Netanyahu supporters set to rally in Tel Aviv

Speaking at a conference Tuesday, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, who was appointed by Netanyahu, appeared to take aim at the prime minister's attacks on t...

Trump says he didn't direct Giuliani's Ukraine efforts, but witnesses say otherwise

The tightening legal vise around Giuliani apparently led Trump to tell conservative radio host Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday night that he had no idea what the fo...

Sudan abolishes the moral police law and releases the ruling party

The new ruling sovereign council and cabinet led by Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok passed the decisions under a law named "Dismantling of the regime of 30th Ju...

Scottish National Party manifesto 2019: A summary of key policies

Sturgeon has said that while she would not align with Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives, she could back a Labour government if it met certain demands...

Essex lorry deaths: First 16 bodies repatriated to Vietnam

They were quickly shuttled away en route to their home provinces in central Vietnam, where relatives anxiously awaited their arrival. They were found on Octob...

Hong Kong leader offers mea culpa, but no concessions

The city-wide elections drew a record turnout and were seen as a vote of no-confidence in Hong Kong's Beijing-backed leader, Carrie Lam, over her handling of ...

After Godse Comment, BJP Removes Pragya Thakur from Parliamentary Defence Panel

Later, the Congress took strong objection to Thakur's remarks and lashed out at the "deplorable hate politics" of the BJP. Congress workers in Indore on Thurs...

Hunt for thieves in brazen $1.5b Dresden museum heist

The items, part of a collection created in 1723 by Saxony's ruler, Augustus the Strong, are so recognisable that thieves are likely to break them up. The coll...