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SEVIERVILLE, TENNESSEE, United States (Reuters) – Five people were killed on Monday (April 4) when a sightseeing helicopter crashed and burned in a Smoky Mountains area of eastern Tennessee, authorities said. No one on the ground was injured in the crash, said Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Dean Flener. He confirmed that five people were killed, but had no further information on the incident. The owner of Smoky Mountain Helicopters said the crash occurred in […]
KRASIEJOW, Poland (Reuters) — Polish scientists say they have discovered the world’s oldest preserved fossils of blood vessels and fragments of fossilized animal proteins inside 240 million-year-old bones. The discovery was made by a joint team of scientists from the University of Silesia, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, the Polish Academy of Sciences and a facility promoting the study of prehistoric fossils, the Science and Human Evolution Park in Krasiejow. Millions of years ago southern Poland […]
Ni Meane Corvera (Eagle News) – Isinauli na ng negosyanteng si Kim Wong sa Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas at Anti-Money laundering Council ang P38.28 million na bahagi ng ninakaw sa Central Bank ng Bangladesh. Ayon kay AMLC director Julia Bacay Abad, nagmula ang pera sa Eastern Hawaii Corporation, isa sa mga kumpanyang pag aari ni Kim Wong. Sumaksi sa turn-over ceremony si Abad, mga opisyal ng Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas at si Bangladesh Ambassador to […]
US entertainment giant Walt Disney Corp said Monday that chief operating officer Thomas Staggs, viewed as the likely successor to chief executive Bob Iger, will step down next month. Staggs, who previously served as chief financial officer and head of Disney’s important parks and resorts division, had been seen as the frontrunner to replace Iger, who is scheduled to retire in two years. No reason was given for his departure, but Disney made clear that […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam’s coast guard has seized a Chinese oil tanker which it claims intruded into Vietnamese waters, state media said Monday, the latest episode in a festering territorial dispute in the South China Sea. The Qiong Yangpu was carrying 100,000 litres of oil, the official Vietnam News Agency said, adding that it was captured Thursday and impounded in the northern port of Hai Phong. The three-man crew was handed over to police, […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Rising tensions worldwide helped push up military expenditure in 2015, the first increase after four years of declining spending, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a report published on Tuesday. For the full-year 2015, world military spending totaled $1.67 trillion, a rise of one percent from the previous year. The increase was attributed primarily to more expenditure in Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East, while the decline […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The world’s first public dengue vaccination program was launched in the Philippines on Monday as nurses began injecting the first batch of a million children with a French drug to combat the sometimes deadly disease. Several hundred children aged 9-10 queued in front of government health workers at a public school in eastern Manila for the injections, capping a 20-year, 1.5-billion-euro ($1.8 bn) effort by French drug manufacturer Sanofi to develop the […]
SWAT, Pakistan – Flash floods triggered by heavy rain in Pakistan have killed at least 55 people and rescuers were trying on Monday (April 4) to help thousands of survivors including some cut off by a landslide in a mountain valley, officials said. The weather system that brought the unusually heavy rain was expected to move northeast, towards northern India, although more isolated storms were expected in northern Pakistan, the Meteorological Department said. Yousuf Zia, […]
(Reuters) — The chair that birthed Harry Potter and millions of so-called Potterheads is hitting the auction block. The wooden dinning chair once owned by J.K. Rowling, comes with a letter in which she said she was sad to let it go. “This is a chair that J.K. Rowling wrote the first two Harry Potter books on. And it was in her government flat. It was given to her with a group of chairs. […]
by David Williams PARIS, France (AFP) — Several countries launched tax evasion probes Monday after a massive leak of confidential documents lifted the lid on the murky offshore financial dealings of a slew of politicians and celebrities. The scandal erupted on Sunday when media groups began revealing the results of a year-long investigation into a trove of 11.5 million documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which specialises in creating offshore shell companies. […]
By Juan José Rodríguez PANAMA City, Panama (AFP) — Alarm spread through Panama on Monday as concerns rose that a massive data leak from one of its legal firms could threaten its vital financial services sector that relies on offshore business. President Juan Carlos Varela vowed that “what we are going to do is defend the image of our country,” while worried representatives from the financial and associated legal sector held an emergency meeting […]
(Eagle News) Sunset at Iona Beach, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. Photos by Eagle News photographer Julius Mangoba, Western Canada.
