Responders in Philadelphia PA are on the scene of what appears to be a plane crash that impacted a mall that has erupted fired across several street blocks. 6ABC in Philly is reporting multiple casualties, and reports are the impact (captured by doorbell cams) has ignited underground gas lines. Bystanders reporting the smell of jet […]
A crane lowers the 112-foot-wide (34-meter-wide) steel framework for the Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23) reflector dish into position on Dec. 18, 2024, at the Deep Space Network’s (DSN) Goldstone Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California. Once online in 2026, DSS-23 will be the fifth of six new beam waveguide antennas to be added to
Reykjavik Airport © Konstantin von Wedelstaedt – http://www.airliners.net/photo//1268008/L/, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17169867 An investigation into a February 2024 near-collision over Skerjafjörður found that air traffic controllers at Reykjavík Airport were distracted by a televised football match. Only 23 metres separated a Cessna 172N and a Diamond DA-20 at 900 feet when no air traffic guidance was
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Eskom has announced the possibility of loadshedding returning this weekend, despite the utility reporting a significant improvement in financial performance for the first half of the financial year. This comes after the company had successfully suspended loadshedding since March 2024, due to enhanced plant performance. Tutuka power station “This is a potentially temporary setback. Loadshedding
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Global content creator champions children’s rights following four-day visit to see UNICEF’s work in Senegal Global content creator Khaby Lame has been announced as UNICEF’s newest Goodwill Ambassador. The appointment – made at an event in Lame’s birth country Senegal – follows a four-day visit to meet children and young people who are driving
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This article was originally published in French The handover of the last French military base in Chad and the Sahel marks a loss of influence for Paris and European interests in the region. ADVERTISEMENT France has finally ended its 60-year military presence in Chad by closing its last military base there. Kosseï camp in the capital
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Updated: January 31, 2025 5:57 PM EST | Originally published: January 31, 2025 5:33 PM EST The Trump Administration took down parts of some government websites as well as removed several health data sets on Friday, raising alarm among health care providers and researchers who use government data in their daily work. Information about HIV
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Alyssa (Eya Bellagha), a high schooler in Tunis, has as many familial responsibilities as she has dreams to escape to Europe. Her older neighbor Mehdi (Slim Baccar) is a talented painter looking for any job since art doesn’t pay the bills. The poignant friendship that develops between these two characters is at the center of
Zoe Saldaña has spoken out for the first time since racist tweets by her “Emilia Pérez” co-star Karla Sofía Gascón resurfaced this week. “I’m still processing everything that has transpired in the last couple of days, and I’m sad. It makes me really sad because I don’t support [it], and I don’t have any tolerance
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Allyce Ozarski, a television producer who worked on shows like “The L Word: Generation Q” and “I Love You, America With Sarah Silverman,” died Jan. 24 in Los Angeles. She was 41. Ozarski died from triple negative metastatic breast cancer, her family confirmed. Born in California, she spent her childhood in Poway before studying international
