Police in Spain are investigating the death of an Irish tourist in Majorca on Monday morning. Initial local reports described the 45-year-old as British after he was found dead in the street and Calvia Town Hall. However, the Civil Guard, which is leading the probe into the incident in Martin Ros Street near the raucous […]
Mount Fuji, a UNESCO World Heritage site and an icon of Japan, has put new regulations in place for climbers amid concerns about overcrowding. Beginning July 1, climbers must pay 2,000 yen ($12.40) per person, with a daily maximum of 4,000 climbers per day. “By strongly promoting comprehensive safety measures for climbing Mount Fuji, we […]
Dominic Ogrady, 35, allegedly wore a fake NYPD badge to attempt to detain alleged fair-evaders on the New York City subway. Photo courtesy of NYPD June 30 (UPI) — A man who impersonated an officer with the NYPD last Sunday and pepper-sprayed a tourist has been identified as an former convict who previously spent six […]
A man posing as an NYPD cop accused of pepper-spraying a tourist at a lower Manhattan subway station has been identified as an ex-con who did six years in prison, cops said Saturday. Dominic Ogrady, who also goes by the alias Domingo Diaz, sparked the bizarre incident at 6:35 p.m. June 23 at the Whitehall […]
A Percheron draft horse used for sightseeing tours of Victorian Cape May died earlier this week while pulling a carriage, published reports say. Here’s what we know about the death of the horse named Ice. Cape May carriage horse dies The horse was used by the Cape May Carriage Company. Company owner Chantel Semanchik said […]
Bear naturally prefer to avoid close encounters with people, and will typically leave an area if they know you are coming (hence the advice to talk and make noise when hiking through their territory). However, they won’t hesitate to defend themselves if they feel threatened, as one man discovered recently after spotting one of the […]
NEW YORK — A vigilante posing as an NYPD cop pepper-sprayed a tourist he caught entering a Manhattan subway station without paying the fare, police said Thursday. The bizarre incident sparked off 6:35 p.m. Sunday at the Whitehall St.-South Ferry station on the uptown R train platform. The vigilante saw the family enter the station […]
A Nigerian could soon make it to space for the first time ever, via Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company Blue Origin. The Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA), a U.S. for-profit company, has guaranteed that one of the six seats for an upcoming flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle will go to a Nigerian, […]
ROME (AP) — A water emergency prompted the mayor of Capri — one of Italy’s most popular islands — to order a halt to the arrival of tourists on Saturday, in a crisis that has deprived some areas of any water supply. Without a water supply, it is impossible to guarantee essential services to “thousands […]
A tourist has been dragged from a police station and killed by a mob in north-west Pakistan after being accused of blasphemy. The police had been attempting to protect the man from the large group in the town of Madyan, a town in Swat district. The mob had gathered after the man was accused of […]
A German citizen has been arrested on the Indonesian resort island of Bali after a string of assaults and property damage, fuelled by depression over family turmoil back home, police said. Police said the suspect, 37, has been in Bali for the past seven months seeking solace from his parents’ divorce and his father’s subsequent […]
Yellowstone National Park recently announced that one of its tourists was sentenced to one week in jail after trespassing into a “dangerous” geothermal area. The national park, which is mostly located in Wyoming, shared a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release about the sentencing on June 13. Lynwood, Washington, resident Viktor Pyshniuk was handed a […]