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  Killer whales are ramming and harassing sailboats traveling along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts in a series of attacks that have left scientists baffled. Sailors traveling along the Strait of Gibraltar to Galicia have sent numerous distress calls in the last two months, with reports of boats losing part of their rudders, crew members sustaining bruises, and ships having to be towed away because of serious damage. In one instance, a 46-foot delivery boat was surrounded by nine orcas off Cape Trafalgar in Spain. The whales, that can weight up to six tons, rammed the boat continuously for one hour, causing it to spin 180 degrees and the engine to shut down, according to crew member Victoria Morris. Morris  told the Observer  that the attack, which happened on July 28, felt "totally orchestrated." "The noise was really scary. They were ramming the keel, there was this horrible echo, I thought they could capsize the boat," Morris said. "And this deafening nois...

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Khoảng 11h30 ngày 30/6/1956, hai máy bay TWA Super Constellation và United DC-7, chở 128 người, bất ngờ đâm nhau ở độ cao hơn 6.400 m trên khu vực Grand Canyon. Vụ va chạm trên không đã xé toạc phần đuôi của chiếc Constellation cũng như cắt đứt phần lớn cánh trái của chiếc DC-7. Chiếc Constellation lao xuống gần như theo chiều thẳng đứng và rơi xuống Temple Butte, khu vực khá bằng phẳng nằm cách sông Colorado khoảng hơn 90 m. Chiếc United DC-7 bay loạng choạng thêm gần 2 km về phía bắc trước khi lao xuống đỉnh Chuar Butte và rơi xuống khe núi. Vụ tai nạn của hai máy bay chở khách này đã thay đổi ngành hàng không Mỹ theo cách mà ngày nay vẫn có thể nhận thấy. Trước tai nạn ở Grand Canyon, các vụ va chạm trên không khá phổ biến. Bài báo của Aviation Week năm 1956 chỉ ra có 127 vụ va chạm trên không đã xảy ra ở Mỹ giữa năm 1948 và 1955, liên quan tới 30 hãng hàng không thương mại. So với ngày nay, vụ tai nạn lớn nhất của hàng không Mỹ đã cách đây hơn một thập kỷ. Tuy nhiên, tốc độ tương đ...

Kết hôn từ năm 17 tuổi, người đàn ông này đã có tới 120 người vợ và tổng cộng 28 đứa con cả trai cả gái. Mặc dù chế độ đa thê là bất hợp pháp ở Thái Lan nhưng có một người đàn ông tại đất nước này lại kết hôn với tận 120 người vợ, gây sốc cho tất cả. Sau khi được truyền thông biết đến, người đàn ông này buộc phải thừa nhận sự thật. Điều kỳ lạ hơn nữa là tất cả những người vợ của ông đều biết về nhau nhưng vẫn chấp nhận và yêu thương chồng vô điều kiện. Ông Tambon Prasert, hiện 61 tuổi, là người đứng đầu quận Phromnee, thuộc tỉnh Nakorn Nayok, Thái Lan, cách Bangkok khoảng 90 km. Ngoài công việc chính trị, ông Tambon còn là một doanh nhân xây dựng khá thành công. Sau khi những thông tin về bản thân được lan truyền, ông Tambon đã mời phóng viên tới nhà để xác nhận mối quan hệ của mình. Khi được hỏi là có đúng ông có hơn 100 người vợ trên khắp đất nước không, ông Tambon đã trả lời: "Chính xác tôi có 120 người vợ, 28 người con cả trai lẫn gái". Số lượng vợ thuộc hàng "kh...

A huge fire has torn through an industrial building after reports “big, big explosion”. Video taken from nearby (see above) shows the blaze mushrooming into the sky. Onlookers reported a secondary explosion at the scene in Kent as firefighters continued to battle the blaze. Members of the public have been asked to avoid the area. No casualties have yet been reported, the fire service said. A former Royal Engineer who lives nearby said it reminded him of gas explosions he saw while working with the Army Firefighters were called to the scene in Vicarage Lane in Hoo, near Rochester, at 4.30am on Friday, where flames and a plume of black smoke could be seen. The fire has continued to burn and at one point on Friday morning a billowing mushroom cloud of smoke was seen rising up into the sky. Joe Discipline, who lives nearby, said: “Around 4/4.30am a huge explosion shook the house and windows. I jumped out of bed to see the sky was orange. “There was then a second explosion, just as ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Police in Nepal used tear gas and water cannon on Thursday to break up a religious rally that defied a government ban on public gatherings imposed to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the ban, about 2,000 residents poured into a major thoroughfare of Lalitpur, near Nepal's capital Kathmandu, to pull a chariot of the rain god, Rato Machhindranath, a ritual that has been celebrated for countless generations. Authorities imposed temporary curbs in Kathmandu and surrounding areas in August to help contain coronavirus contagion and asked residents to observe festivals at home. "We charged (with) water cannon and tear gas to stop the rally," police official Tek Prasad Rai told Reuters. On Thursday, Nepali Health Ministry spokesman Jageshwor Gautam said the number of coronavirus infections in the Himalayan nation had increased to 42,877, with 257 deaths. Temple-studded Kathmandu Valley recorded 445 new cases, a jump of about 7% from the previous...

Đoạn video kinh hoàng được ghi lại vào ngày 28/8 vừa qua tại Lang Phường, Hà Bắc, Trung Quốc. Một chiếc ôtô màu trắng bất ngờ lao thẳng vào nhiều người đang ngồi ăn tối ngoài trời, vụ tai nạn khiến 4 người bị thương, tài xế bị bắt sau đó và không có giấy phép lái xe.

About 100 climate activists from Extinction Rebellion protested on Monday in the City of London, sitting in the road outside the Bank of England from 7am. Police arrested a number of people, including Rabbi Jeffrey Newman, of the Finchley Reform Synagogue. 'We are in a period of enormous catastrophic breakdown and, if it takes an arrest to try to find ways of helping to galvanise public opinion, then it is certainly worth being arrested,' he said before being taken away.

Extinction Rebellion: 92-year-old among dozens arrested in London climate protests Thousands of Extinction Rebellion protesters have descended on Parliament Square in London, leading to at least 90 arrests, as the group kicked off 10 days of civil disobedience to demand government action on the climate crisis. Police arrest dozens of Extinction Rebellion protesters in London

Extreme floods have hit the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River, which recorded the largest inflow of water in its history, prompting officials to promise it could withstand the flows. Several outlets of the dam have been opened to discharge water, the largest release since its construction. A breach would be embarrassing for China, which took 12 years to build the dam, displacing millions and submerging swaths of land. Meanwhile, upstream from the dam, officials in the city of Chongqing, Sichuan province, evacuated almost 300,000 residents. Levels along the Yangtze nearby have reached heights not seen since 1981 Anxiety grows as China’s Three Gorges dam hits highest level

Floods on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China forced authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people and threatened a 1,200-year-old Unesco world heritage site, the Leshan Giant Buddha. Staff, police and volunteers used sandbags to try to protect the 71-metre (233ft) statue in Sichuan province as muddy flood water rose over its toes for the first time since 1949, the state broadcaster CCTV reported China floods: 100,000 evacuated as waters reach Giant Buddha statue

Comrade Duch, Khmer Rouge chief executioner, dies in Cambodia Figure who ran Cambodia’s most notorious prison during genocidal regime of Pol Pot died on Wednesday The chief jailer of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime, known as Comrade Duch, who oversaw the mass murder of at least 14,000 Cambodians at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, has died. Life for Comrade Duch, a milestone for international justice Duch, who was 77 and in poor health, died at a hospital in Phnom Penh in the early hours of Wednesday. In 2010, the commander was the first Khmer Rouge figure to be held accountable by a court for atrocities committed under the ultra-communist regime, which killed an estimated 1.7 million people, a quarter of Cambodia’s population, between 1975 and 1979. His death was “a reminder that justice is a long and difficult” process, said Youk Chhang, the director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which conducts research on the Khmer Rouge regime. “Perhaps it can bring some satisfactio...

A 32-year-old Sydney man has been charged with attempted murder after a police officer was slashed in the head and shoulder. 1 Counter-terrorism police are investigating after a man was charged with attempted murder for allegedly slashing a policeman with a knife and injuring two other officers in Sydney’s CBD. Police were called after a food delivery rider was allegedly harassed by a man on George Street after midnight on Wednesday. It’s alleged one officer was slashed across his head and shoulder after a man pulled out a knife when they approached him as he was walking along York Street near Market Street. Another officer was slashed on the hand and a third officer was bitten on the arm, police say. The 32-year-old man was disarmed and arrested before being taken to St Vincent’s hospital for assessment. Detectives and the New South Wales joint counter-terrorism team later conducted a search warrant at a hostel on York Street and seized a number of items. The Lakemba man face...

Vice President Pence attended “dignified transfer” ceremonies for two years by himself after the father of a slain SEAL “rattled” Trump In February 2017. WASHINGTON ― In the world of President Donald Trump, he has paid his respects to “many, many” returning soldiers killed in the line of duty, with daughter and top presidential aide Ivanka Trump adding that “each time” she has stood by his side at one of these ceremonies, it has hardened his resolve to bring troops home. In the real world, Trump has traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware exactly four times ― fewer than half as many times as his vice president ― and avoided going at all for nearly two years after getting berated for his incompetence by the father of a slain Navy SEAL, according to a former White House aide who spoke on condition of anonymity. Bill Owens, the father of William “Ryan” Owens, refused to shake Trump’s hand at that Feb. 1, 2017, encounter, the aide said, and then told Trump that he was responsible ...

President Donald Trump has continued to attack his former rival, Hillary Clinton, for her own use of a private email server while in office. First lady Melania Trump regularly used private email accounts to conduct government business, her former adviser, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, told The Washington Post on Tuesday. “Melania and I both didn’t use White House emails,” Winston Wolkoff, who helped organize President Donald Trump’s inauguration, told the newspaper. Winston Wolkoff made the claims as her book, “Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady,” was published. The details of the personal email use are not included in the book. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the Trump administration has moved to cast the book as a “revisionist history” full of lies. The Post said it had reviewed a spate of messages dated after the inauguration that appeared to be from Melania Trump. The missives included details about g...

Crocodile turtles camouflage to hunt on the riverbed - Crocodile turtles successfully hunt by lying still, opening their mouth and using worm-shaped parts on the tongue to lure the fish closer.