A mountaineer plunged 1,000ft to her death after slipping into a rocky ravine in front of her horrified friends. Monica Reginato, 55, from Castelfranco, slipped and fell 984ft from the Cortina d’Ampezzo, on the Sorapiss mountain in the Dolomites, in northern Italy’s Veneto region, on Saturday, April 20. She had […]
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A Douglas DC-4 airplane crashed into the Tanana River near Fairbanks on Tuesday and burst into flames, authorities said. No survivors have been found, Alaska state troopers said. The plane took off in the morning from Fairbanks international airport. It crashed about 7 miles (11km) from there and “slid into […]
Russia is combining its long-running bombardment of Ukraine’s second city with a “coordinated information operation” to sow panic among residents, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has said. According to the independent think tank: “Kremlin mouthpieces are seizing on concerns about a future Russian offensive operation against Kharkiv […]
A new song-guessing game is taking over the internet, one melody at a time. Bandle, which debuted as an app in December, is seeing an explosion in popularity on platforms like TikTok, Twitch and YouTube, where streamers and content creators are posting videos of themselves playing the game. Every day, […]
The EU has called on international donors to resume funding to Gaza’s largest UN agency. It comes after a review found that Israel had not provided evidence for its claim that thousands of UNRWA staff were members of terror groups. Several nations halted funding to the agency after allegations that […]
X boss calls independent senator Jacqui Lambie ‘enemy of the people’ After she deleted her X account and spent yesterday criticising its boss, Jacqui Lambie has been called the “enemy of the people of Australia” overnight by Elon Musk. Musk took a number of swipes at the independent senator overnight, […]
French troops are undergoing intense military training as they gear up for a possible deployment to Ukraine. The country’s military is steeping up its battle readiness after the French President hinted he was prepared to send his army to Kyiv’s aid. In bombshell comments at the end of February, Emmanuel […]
Lawmakers in Tennessee passed a measure Tuesday that would allow school staff to carry concealed handguns on school grounds, sending the bill to the governor a year after a shooter opened fire and killed six people at a Nashville school. The Tennessee House cleared the legislation in a 68-28 vote. […]