An Argentine mountaineer died 40 years ago on an icy volcanic peak in the Andes. His two daughters have recovered his rucksack from the scene and discovered camera film inside, which gave them a glimpse of some of his last moments.
The dethronement of Mill Ends Park is official. Portland’s 452-square-inch park is no longer the smallest park in the world, according to Guinness World Records. The title is now held in Nagaizumi, Japan, on a tiny plot of brick and grass.
At a Polk County nature preserve, a woman was bitten by an alligator while paddling and was taken to the hospital on Monday, according to officials.
There are no native snake species in Ireland,Iceland, Greenland, Hawaii, New Zealand, part of Canada, northern Russia, or, predictably, Antarctica.
A poor vendor in Nigeria’s Lagos State’s Mushin neighborhood, on Friday Aloh is in dire need of financial support to help with hospital expenses after his wife gave birth to triplets at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in Idi-Araba on Tuesday. Already, they have twins.
When a dog followed a goose out onto a frozen lake and fell through the thin ice, a New Jersey police officer rescued the dog.According to the Hazlet Township Police Department, Taffy, the dog, was out on a walk with her owner in Veteran’s Park when she chased a goose and her human loosened the dog’s leash.
In Kyoto,one of Japan’s Three Scenic Views, Amanohashidate, a pine tree thought to be 650 years old, was cut. Known as the “Funakoshi Pine,” this tree is believed to have connections to the well-known warlord Akechi Mitsuhide of the Sengoku period. Work started to cut down the tall tree, which is believed to be the oldest of the 6,700 or so pines that line Amanohashidate.
Three men posing as auto sellers on Facebook Marketplace robbed a father and his son in Point Fortin in Trinidad and Tobago on Monday.
Two stores denied booze to a Newzelander who had brain damage from a vehicle accident because they believed he was intoxicated.
In the terrible event, the 16-year-old Nigerian girl was made the scapegoat and accused to give her 19-year-old ex-boyfriend, Emmanuel, poisoned pepper soup, which killed him and four of his friends.