A Brazilian horse nicknamed Caramelo by social media users who garnered national attention after a television news helicopter filmed him stranded on a rooftop in southern Brazil has been rescued. About 24 hours after he was first spotted and with people calling for his rescue, a team in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state on […]
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — A Brazilian horse nicknamed Caramelo by social media users garnered national attention after a television news helicopter spotted it stranded on a rooftop, presumably for days, in southern Brazil, where massive floods have killed more than 100 people. About 24 hours after it was first spotted and with people clamoring […]
An Air France plane diverted after a burning smell was detected in the cabin. It landed in a remote town in the northern Canadian province of Nunavut. The airline had to cancel a different flight to reroute a Boeing 777 to rescue the passengers. Air France has been working to get passengers back on track […]
Tourists are being evacuated from Kenya’s popular Maasai Mara game reserve after floods left parts of it submerged. More than 10 lodges and camps have been flooded after the nearby Talek River burst its banks on Tuesday. There are also fears that some animals might have been swept away by the raging floods. The area’s […]
At least six people have died and more than a dozen are missing after storms caused flooding in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Helicopters are flying over the region searching for people who have been left stranded. In some areas, the flooding is so severe that helicopters have been unable to […]
An orca calf that spent over a month stranded in a remote lagoon on Vancouver Island off the west coast of Canada swam out of the lagoon on her own early Friday morning, according to the Ehattesaht First Nation. The seemingly trapped mammal attracted media attention, concern from local agencies and prompted several aborted rescue […]
More than 160 pilot whales became stranded off the coast of Western Australia on Thursday, local authorities said. Western Australia’s parks and wildlife authority DBCA said the whales became stranded in shallow waters near the small town of Dunsborough, some 250 kilometres south of Perth. By midday, 26 animals had died, Australian broadcaster ABC quoted […]
Between 50 and 100 pilot whales became stranded off the coast of Western Australia on Thursday, local authorities said. Western Australia’s parks and wildlife authority DBCA said the whales became stranded in shallow waters near the small town of Dunsborough, some 250 kilometres south of Perth. Numerous animal rights activists and local residents rushed to […]
The Only Way Is Essex stars Joey Essex and James Argent were left stranded on the streets of Dubai after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) experienced the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the desert nation. On Tuesday more than a year and a half’s worth of rain was dumped onto the desert city-state in the […]
Holding her 10-month-old baby, Tamara Tubic recounted how she and her family — including her 2-year-old — made the roughly 25 minute drive from Edgewater to spend Sunday in Key Biscayne. Their trip was going according to plan, until it was time to leave, and Tubic noticed that traffic was unusually heavy. Since her astute […]
ISTANBUL (AP) — More than 40 people remained stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in southern Turkey on Saturday, 19 hours after one pod hit a pole and burst open, killing one person and injuring seven. The accident occurred around 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Tunektepe cable car just outside the Mediterranean city […]
More than 40 people remained stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in southern Turkey, the day after one pod hit a post and burst open, killing one person and injuring seven. The accident occurred at around 5.30pm on Friday on the Tunektepe cable car, just outside the Mediterranean city of Antalya, during the […]