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PARIS, France (AFP) — Stifling a sneeze can rupture your throat, burst an ear drum, or pop a blood vessel in your brain, researchers warned Tuesday. Many people — when they feel a sneeze coming on — block all the exits, essentially swallowing the sneeze’s explosive force. Just how dangerous this can be was illustrated when a 34-year-old man showed up at the emergency service of a hospital in Leicester, England recently, with a swollen […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Eight bodies have been recovered from a wrecked boat that washed ashore in central Japan, authorities said Tuesday, suspecting the vessel is the latest in a series of North Korean “ghost ships.” Coastguard rescuers found the corpses of seven men inside the wreckage of the boat that washed up in Kanazawa, central Japan, last week, senior police official Hiroshi Abe told AFP. The badly decomposed remains of another man were […]
by Bagus SARAGIH Agence France-Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — At least 75 people were injured Monday when a mezzanine floor at Indonesia’s stock exchange building collapsed into the lobby, police said, with victims carried out of the debris-filled building on stretchers. A cascade of glass, metal and other material crashed onto the ground floor when part of the mezzanine level gave way. A Jakarta police spokesman said the collapse was an accident and not the […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Dutch cyclist Jelle van Gorkom, who won a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, was in a coma on Wednesday following a crash which left him with a damaged skull, officials said. The 27-year-old was hurt after an accident in training at the national sports centre at Papendal near Arnhem in the east of the country. “After the accident, Jelle van Gorkom was taken to the hospital. He has […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Thirty-two people, mostly Iranians, were missing Sunday after an oil tanker collided with a cargo ship off the coast of east China, the transport ministry said. The tanker, carrying 136,000 tonnes of oil condensate, caught fire following the collision Saturday night and its crew of 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis were missing, the ministry said in a statement. The other vessel had been damaged but “without jeopardizing the safety of the ship” and […]
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AFP) — Eighteen people were killed and another 14 injured in the small west African state of Guinea-Bissau late Friday when a minibus collided with a truck, police and hospital sources said. One witness said the truck appeared to have been speeding when the driver lost control and collided head-on with the minibus near Bissauzinho, around 15 kilometres (15 miles) from the capital Bissau. Sources said the bus had been overloaded and that at least […]
PALEMBANG, Indonesia (AFP) — At least 13 people died after a passenger boat capsized off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, two days after another ferry accident in the archipelago killed at least nine, police said Friday. The boat was carrying 55 people along the Musi river when it hit a large wave and sank amid bad weather Wednesday, South Sumatra water police chief Robinson Siregar said. He said the police were still searching for […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The death toll from a fire that ripped through an apartment building in New York’s Bronx district last week has risen to 13, after a 27-year-old man died of his injuries, police said Thursday. The latest victim was identified as Holt Francis. Three other members of his family — wife Karen and their two young daughters — were already confirmed dead in the December 28 blaze, the deadliest […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A fire destroyed a building and injured 23 people in New York on Tuesday, just days after the city’s deadliest inferno in a quarter of a century. The blaze broke out in The Bronx, the same northern borough where last week’s fire claimed 12 lives. “Our units arrived and were immediately faced with heavy fire. Numerous people were brought out of the building by the firefighters on scene,” said New York […]
PUNTA ISLITA, Costa Rica (AFP) — Strong winds were seen as a factor in the crash of a small plane in Costa Rica that killed all 10 US passengers on board and two local crew members, according to officials and witnesses. The accident, which occurred Sunday in the country’s northwestern Guanacaste region popular with tourists seeking pristine tropical beaches, killed all on board the small Cessna 208 Caravan owned and operated by domestic airline Nature […]
by Thomas Urbain © Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A three-year-old boy playing with stove burners accidentally ignited the fire that ripped through a New York apartment building, killing 12 people including four children, the city’s fire department chief said Friday. The blaze broke out Thursday evening in a 25-apartment building near the Bronx Zoo, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the US financial capital. Four people remain in a critical condition […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Fire tore through a Mumbai building where a rooftop party was being held early Friday, killing at least 15 people and leaving many injured, police said. The blaze started just after midnight in a top floor restaurant in the center of the city and quickly spread to two adjacent bars, destroying the entire building in 30 minutes, media reports said. Most of those who died were women at a […]
