An investigation into the deadly crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines flight in Kazakhstan earlier this week came after the passenger plane experienced “physical and technical external interference,” the carrier said Friday. The Embraer 190 crashed near the Kazakh city of […]
LONDON — When Britain’s royal family gathers for Christmas dinner, the festive cheer will be closing out a turbulent 2024. The year has proved challenging for the royals, most notably with dual cancer diagnoses for King Charles III and Kate,
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Many Ukrainians were celebrating without heat or power after Russia launched a Christmas Day assault on the country’s energy infrastructure, an act that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned as “inhuman.” “Today, Putin deliberately chose Christmas for an attack. What could
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A passenger plane carrying 67 people crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning after colliding with birds while traveling from Azerbaijan to Russia, authorities said. The Azerbaijan Airlines flight, which crashed near Aktau, a city in southwestern Kazakhstan, had 62 passengers and 5 crew
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A baby mammoth that lay almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years in the now-melting permafrost of eastern Siberia has been unveiled by a team of scientists. The mammoth was a “unique research find” with scientists “all surprised by its exceptional preservation,”
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Spain’s 200-year-old holiday lottery “The Fat One” delivered a hefty prize again this year, with over $2.8 billion in prizes warbled out by school children and watched live around the world. The annual drawing for “El Gordo” took place on
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The aftermath of an “exceptionally violent” attack in early Bronze Age England suggests that at least 37 people may have been “systematically dismembered” and eaten, new research has revealed. The attack, which took place around 4,000 years ago, reveals a
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The things whales do for love. A humpback whale has stunned scientists with a journey that spanned three oceans and more than 8,000 miles, setting the record for the longest known migration between breeding grounds. Scientists behind the research, published Wednesday in
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A 100-year-old former guard at a Nazi concentration camp, accused of “aiding and abetting” the murder of over 3,300 prisoners during World War II, may face trial 80 years after the end of the war, a German court has ruled.
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LONDON — The countryside came to the capital as thousands of farmers packed into London streets around Britain’s Parliament to protest changes to tax rules. Some drove tractors, others brought hay bales, many carried signs saying “no farms, no food.”
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