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A New Zealand father who was missing at sea with his six-year-old daughter on a tiny catamaran for 27 days says he was never in danger and that a broken rudder forced him to sail to Australia. However, he turned up about 2600km off course in Ulladulla, New South Wales, on Wednesday. What could have […]

Chicago (AFP) – Barack Obama addressed America and the world for the last time as US president Tuesday, in a speech that was both a tearful goodbye and a call to arms. Capping eight years in the White House, Obama returned to his adopted hometown of Chicago to recast his “yes we can” campaign credo […]

Paris (AFP) – A swampy forest in central Africa the size of England covers previously unknown carbon stocks equivalent to three years’ worth of global CO2 emissions, scientists revealed Wednesday. Draining these peatlands for agriculture, or reduced rainfall due to climate change, would release massive amounts of planet-warming greenhouse gases, they warned in a study […]

Sofia (AFP) – The death toll from the cold snap hitting parts of Europe rose to at least 65 on Wednesday as Bulgarian authorities reported seven fatalities. They included a couple in their 80s, the only inhabitants of a village in the mountainous region of Smolyan in southern Bulgaria, who were found dead in their […]

Washington (AFP) – Texas prison authorities carried out the first US execution of 2017, as controversy continued to swirl around the drugs used to conduct such lethal injections. Christopher Wilkins, 48, was executed at the Texas state penitentiary at Huntsville after the US Supreme Court denied him a last-minute reprieve. Wilkins was convicted of a […]

Los Angeles (AFP) – Next time you order halibut, red snapper or yellowfin tuna at a sushi restaurant in the Los Angeles area, you may want to ask for proof of what’s on your plate. According to a four-year study published on Wednesday by researchers at the University of California Los Angeles and Loyola Marymount […]