STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: Study shows low level pirates earn up to $75,000 a vessel Low level pirates are mostly foot soldiers sent to the high seas to do the dirty work Piracy off the Horn of Africa hauled in about $400 million in ransom in the past several years Financiers, considered the “money kingpins,” earned the most loot Pirates off the Horn of Africa hauled in hundreds of millions of […]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: Local media report that Santos left the field this year to focus on his business Police: The former football player’s wife found his severed head on their doorstep João Rodrigo Silva Santos played for mostly second-tier club teams before retiring O Globo: Police investigate whether Facebook posts are connected to the crime João Rodrigo Silva Santos didn’t come home Monday night. When the former professional footballer’s wife […]
Investigators in Bosnia have uncovered a mass grave thought to contain several hundred bodies of victims of the conflict that followed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia two decades ago. The remains are believed to be those of victims of Bosniak and Croat ethnicity from Prijedor and its surroundings, killed in the summer of 1992, according to the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The site, at Tomasica in Prijedor […]
The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, has been killed in a drone strike, a high-ranking Taliban official has told the BBC. The strike targeted a vehicle used by Mehsud with four missiles in the north-western region of North Waziristan. Four other people were killed in the strike, including two of Mehsud’s bodyguards, intelligence sources say. Several previous claims of his death, made by US and Pakistani intelligence sources, […]
When students learn online, every mouse click is tracked. Harness this wealth of data and we can create the ultimate in personalised lessons. One day, Sebastian Thrun ran a simple and surprising experiment on a class of students that changed his ideas about how they were learning. The students were doing an online course provided by Udacity, an educational organisation that Thrun co-founded in 2011. Thrun and his colleagues split […]
Understanding the processes governing death is helping experts try to halt and reverse it. It’s also challenging our ideas about the nature of death itself. Zach Conrad died on a lovely Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia. It was 3 June 2012, and the 36-year-old financial analyst had decided to take a solo bike ride, as he often did on weekends. As the ride progressed, however, Conrad sensed that something was wrong. […]
It was a distinctly unspooky location. A cash point in a bright, blaring underground train station. But there I stood among 20 strangers, all of us on the trail of phantoms. Look at the skyline and all you see of Hong Kong is an ultra-modern city with glistening buildings scraping the clouds or hugging the harbourfront in weird and wonderful shapes. But lurking in between them are pockets of old […]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS A man goes missing after he leaves his house on September 2 Nearly seven weeks later, he is found hundreds of miles away He’s found injured and trapped in a ravine; he used the time to write love letters to his family His death leaves behind many questions David Welch hopped into his maroon Pontiac Montana van last month and drove for hours. Without saying where he […]
Regent Seven Seas Cruises, with headquarters in Miami, is owned by Prestige Cruise Holdings, the market leader in the Upper Premium and Luxury segments of the cruise industry with over 6,400 berths between the Regent Seven Seas Cruises and Oceania Cruises brands. The Regent Seven Seas Cruises fleet includes sister all-suite, all-balcony, 700-guest ships Seven Seas Voyager and Seven Seas Mariner; and the all-suite, 90% balcony Seven Seas Navigator. Seven […]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Three News of the World journalists plead guilty to phone hacking in trial in London Neville Thurlbeck, James Weatherup and Greg Miskiw plead guilty, report British media Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are accused of conspiring to hack voice mails They both formerly edited the now-defunct News of the World newspaper Three former journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s defunct British tabloid News of the World have pleaded guilty to […]
