A man used his surfboard to fend off a shark that bit him on his calf off an Australian beach two days after a fatal attack on the Great Barrier Reef. Lee Jonsson, a 43-year-old teacher aide, was bitten on Wednesday at Shelly Beach off Ballina in New South Wales state. Japanese surfer Tadashi Nakahara died at…
Rescuers intensified efforts on Saturday to find survivors who might be trapped amid the ruins of a small Florida Panhandle community nearly obliterated by Hurricane Michael, where one body has already been recovered, tempers are flaring, and power could be out for weeks. Crews with dogs went door-to-door in Mexico Beach, pushing aside debris to get inside…
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Eight South Korean dogs are heading to the UK for adoption this Christmas as Asia’s fourth largest economy is turning against eating dog meat. Dermot, Indie, Luna, Millie, Nara, Olive, Robin, Sandie and Tessa belong to a group of 200 golden retrievers, collies, spaniels, Korean jindos and tosas who were recently rescued by the charity…
China’s President Xi Jinping officially opened the world’s longest sea bridge connecting Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China Tuesday, at a time when Beijing is tightening its grip on its semi-autonomous territories. The 34-mile (55-kilometre) crossing, which includes a snaking road bridge and underwater tunnel, links Hong Kong with the southern mainland city of Zhuhai and the gambling enclave…
UPDATE 11:30 AM GMT: The issues are now resolved. Rare tweeted as much and the game works for me again. Issues are now resolved. Thanks for your patience! — Sea of Thieves (@SeaOfThieves) January 30, 2018 ORIGINAL STORY 9:30 AM GMT: I have been happily bobbing along on the foaming waves of the Sea of…
A newly discovered species of orangutan is among several animals under threat from a $1.6-billion-dollar hydroelectric dam project in Indonesia, conservationists have warned. The joint Indonesian-Chinese dam development, scheduled for completion in 2022, will slice through the only known habitat of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan in the Batang Toru rainforest on Sumatra island. The…
It’s the eyes that really get to you – scores of them, glittering coppery-red like the pilot lights on a hundred flamethrowers. And that ceaseless ebb and surge of tiny, ravenous bodies, darting at your heels only to wince back from the glare of your torch. A Plague Tale’s corner of 14th century France is…
The shocking – and lurid – details of how and why Jamal Khashoggi was allegedly murdered have captured the world’s attention and focused the minds of its presidents, kings, crown princes and prime ministers. The journalist was allegedly assassinated by a 15-man "hit-squad" in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, where his killers would be covered…
There’s a new update for Xbox One – rolling out today to those in the Insider program – which adds a form of Remote Play with PCs. The ability to pass control of your, well, controller to someone else is not a new idea – but it’s the first time Microsoft has dabbled with the…