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Crispin Dye: New person of interest identified in AC/DC manager death
NSW Police By Antoinette Radford BBC News New forensic evidence has identified a person of interest in the 1993 death of Australian rock band AC/DC’s former manager, Crispin Dye. The 41-year-old died on Christmas Day, two days after he was found with severe head injuries in an inner city Sydney suburb. New testing found DNA…
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South China Sea: Philippines resupplies Spratlys shoal troops
Reuters The Philippines says it has delivered fresh supplies to a remote outpost it claims in the South China Sea. Manila says Beijing’s attempts to “block, harass, and interfere with the supply mission” were unsuccessful. Chinese ships fired water cannon at a Philippine supply mission to the Second Thomas Shoal in the disputed Spratly Islands…
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Pakistan cable car: Helicopters sent to rescue eight trapped
Welcome to our live coverage of a rescue operation in northern Pakistan, where six children and two adults are trapped in a cable car suspended hundreds of metres above a ravine in Battagram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The eight passengers were on their way to school when some of the cables snapped earlier this morning, leaving…
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Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato part ways with manager Scooter Braun
Reuters By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent Scooter Braun, the music mogul who made headlines for a long-running dispute over Taylor Swift’s master recordings, has reportedly been left by two of his biggest clients. According to Billboard, both Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato have parted ways with the manager. Colombian star J Balvin, who signed…
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Greece wildfires: Hospital evacuated as fire intensifies in Alexandroupolis
Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters By Paul Kirby BBC News Dozens of patients have been moved out of a hospital in north-eastern Greece as wildfires burn out of control for a fourth day near the city of Alexandroupolis. The flames approached the grounds of the university hospital and many of those evacuated were taken to a ferry in…
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North Korea airline flies first international flight since Covid
Getty Images By Nicholas Yong BBC News, Singapore North Korea’s flagship carrier has flown its first international flight since the pandemic. Air Koryo’s JS151 left Pyongyang Tuesday morning and landed at Beijing Capital Airport at 09:16 local time (01:16 GMT), data from real-time flight tracking service Flightradar24 showed. It is unclear who was on board…
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Pakistan: Rescue under way for eight people trapped in broken cable car
Pakistan National Disaster Management Agency By Kelly Ng BBC News A rescue is under way in Pakistan for eight people – including six children – trapped in a cable car dangling over a valley in the country’s north-west. The children were making their way to school when one of the cables snapped, leaving the car…
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Front loader scoops up flood victims in Coachella Valley
Rescue crews used a front loader to take residents trapped in their homes to safety in Coachella Valley, southern California. Storm Hilary battered parts of the US, bringing record-breaking rainfall and causing flash flooding. Death Valley National Park received a full year’s worth of rain in one day, and remains indefinitely closed. Hilary, now a…
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Microsoft makes new deal to buy Call of Duty giant
Activision By Dearbail Jordan, Daniel Thomas & Steffan Powell BBC business reporters and gaming corespondent Microsoft has made a new bid to buy Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard in the latest twist in the tale of what would be the biggest deal of its kind in the gaming industry. Its original $69bn (£59bn) deal was…
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Edinburgh Fringe funniest joke: Lorna Rose Treen’s zookeeper pun
Robert Perry/PinPep A joke about an unfaithful zookeeper has been named the funniest gag at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Comedian Lorna Rose Treen was voted the winner with her pun: “I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah.” The Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe is chosen by members…