Brazos River: Texas girl contracts brain-eating amoeba while swimming
A weekend swim left a young girl fighting for her life when she contracted a brain-eating amoeba with a 97 per cent fatality rate.
The 10-year-old girl swam in the Brazos River and Lake Whitney...
Can you channel Jack Kerouac’s On the Road in an electric car?
Henry Mance plugged in, turned on and hit Route 80 to find out. Spontaneity and distance were the first casualties.
“Where we going, man?” asks the narrator, Sal Paradise, in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road.
“I...
Victorian man dead, woman seriously injured in dog attack
A man is dead and a woman seriously injured after an attack by a pet dog in the city's north east.
Police were called to a house on Ancona Drive in Mill Park about 6.40pm,...
‘Merchants of death’ hide cocaine in replica World Cup trophies (Details)
Gang members hid cocaine inside replica World Cup trophies in an attempt to smuggle the drugs around Argentina.
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‘Assassination attempt’ on Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa (Details)
Zimbabwe's president has escaped injury after an explosion at a stadium where he was addressing a rally, in what state media are describing as an assassination attempt.
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Final rallies in Turkey ahead of crucial election (Details)
Up to a million people have turned out for one of the last opposition campaign rallies ahead of Sunday's elections in Turkey.
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Greenwich murder: Man arrested after body found in garden (Details)
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was found dead in a back garden in south-east London.The woman, thought to...
World Cup 2018: England v Panama – Southgate tells squad to ‘create own history’...
England's players trained at their Zelenogorsk base on Saturday morning before flying to Nizhny NovogorodEngland...