# A Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv has been diverted to Saudi Arabia after the pilots apparently got into a physical fight. The flight transmitted emergency signals, including one indicating possible unlawful interference, before landing safely in Tabuk. The plane also dropped nearly four-thousand-200 metres in about 30 seconds. All passengers and crew […]
# ‘n Haai van 3,5-meter wat in ‘n kanaal in die Suid-Koreaanse hawestad Busan vasgekeer is, het binne twee weke sowat 600-duisend besoekers gelok. Die koperhaai met die bynaam Bukangi is op 18 September die eerste keer in die Noordhawe opgemerk. Owerhede het gister probeer om hom terug see toe te lei met vyf vaartuie […]
# Die Amerikaanse deelstaat Tennessee gaan vandag die eerste keer in langer as 200 jaar ‘n vrou teregstel. Die 50-jarige Christa Pike is op 18-jarige ouderdom skuldig bevind aan die moord op haar 19-jarige klasmaat, Colleen Slemmer, in 1995. Haar regsverteenwoordigers het versagting gevra weens ernstige trauma tydens haar kinderjare en psigiatriese probleme, maar goewerneur […]
# A shark of 3.5-metres trapped in a canal in the South Korean port city of Busan has attracted about 600-thousand visitors in two weeks. Nicknamed Bukangi, the bronze whaler was first spotted in the North Port waterway on September 18. Authorities tried to guide it back to the sea yesterday by using five vessels […]
# Seven leopards have returned to South Africa’s West Coast after disappearing 170 years ago, with the first confirmed sighting in the West Coast National Park captured on camera last year. General Manager Bool Smuts of the Landmark Foundation, a non-governmental conservation dedicated to human-wildlife conflict management, says the predators were hunted in the mid […]
# The American state of Tennessee is due to execute a woman for the first time in over 200 years today. Christa Pike is scheduled to die by lethal injection. The 50-year-old was 18 when she was convicted of murdering 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995. Her lawyers have sought clemency, citing severe childhood trauma […]
# British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has not been seen in public for nearly two years, after he earlier revealed that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The 82-year-old is living at a care facility in England, but relatives have told the BBC it is “very painful” that they have been unable to visit him […]
# Die Britse ontdekkingsreisiger, sir Ranulph Fiennes, is al byna twee jaar laas in die openbaar gesien, nadat hy vroeër bekend gemaak het hy is met Parkinsons gediagnoseer. Die 82-jarige woon tans in ‘n versorgingsoord in Engeland, maar familielede het aan die BBC gesê hulle vind dit baie moeilik omdat hulle hom langer as ‘n […]
# Die PowerBall- en PowerBall-plus-trekkings bied vanaand ‘n gesamentlike geskatte boerpot van 101-miljoen-rand. Die PowerBall-boerpot staan op 80-miljoen-rand, terwyl die PowerBall-plus-boerpot 21-miljoen-rand beloop. Die trekking vind net ná nege-uur vanaand plaas. ‘n Ontleding van vorige trekkings toon nommer 13 is sedert Junie 2018 die meeste as hoofnommer getrek op 106-trekkings. Die grootste PowerBall-boerpot nóg was […]
