At least 20 homes have been razed in the worst fire conditions Australia has seen since a deadly 2009 inferno which killed 173 people, with flames threatening the country’s second-largest city, officials said on Monday. Hot, dry winds and soaring temperatures fanned scores of major blazes across the southeast on Sunday, with Victoria state sweltering through its worst fire risk weather in five years. “They were ferocious fires, they ran […]
In this July 9, 2011 file photo, Mark Zuckerberg, president and CEO of Facebook, walks with Priscilla Chan during the 2011 Allen and Co. Sun Valley Conference, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Zuckerberg and his wife Chan were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million Facebook shares, valued at more than $970 million, given to a Silicon Valley nonprofit in December. Mark Zuckerberg and his […]
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS Copenhagen Zoo official: If we sterilized giraffe, he’d just take up needed space Giraffe’s autopsy performed outside in front of people at Copenhagen Zoo Zoo says giraffe killed because of a duty to avoid inbreeding Giraffe’s carcass was fed to zoo’s carnivores An online petition to save a healthy young giraffe from death has failed, despite thousands of signatures from animal lovers. Copenhagen Zoo said it euthanized the […]
Drones, sniffer dogs, snipers in helicopters and an estimated 100,000 troops on the ground are all part of a colossal security effort underway in Sochi ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. The Russians have created a vast security perimeter encircling the Black Sea resort amid fear of terrorist attack from neighbouring Caucasus region. Yet these strong-arm tactics are little defence against one of the most pervasive risks for foreign […]
SOCHI, Russia – Two skiing sisters and a snowboard star fighting a broken rib gave Canada’s Olympians the strong start they desired in Sochi. Canada earned a medal of every colour Saturday on the opening day of Olympic medal competition. Montreal’s Justine Dufour-Lapointe led the way, flying to gold in the women’s moguls. Chloe Dufour-Lapointe wasn’t far behind her sister, taking silver and relegating defending champion Hannah Kearney of the […]
UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has insisted that the UN and aid agencies will not be deterred by Saturday’s attack on a convoy bringing supplies into the Syrian city of Homs. Baroness Amos said she was sad that a three-day ceasefire to allow aid into the old part of Homs had been broken. The events were “a stark reminder of the dangers that civilians and aid workers face every […]
Two people were killed when a falling boulder derailed a tourist train in the southern French Alps, local officials and firefighters say. At least nine people were injured. The train was travelling from Nice to the town of Digne-les-Bains on a line which crosses gorges and viaducts at up to 1,000m (3,200ft) above sea level. Images from the scene show the two-carriage train dangling from the tracks, the side of […]
Today, like more garages in Vancouver, it is a garage for intercity buses in a desolate industrial section of Sherbrooke, Que., right next to a provincial prison. There is no plaque, nothing to indicate that more than 70 years ago, an intriguing chapter in Canadian history unfolded within its brick walls. Erwin SchildRabbi Erwin Schild’s family home shortly after a bomb blast in Germany during the war. In 1940, as […]
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