According to croatiantimes.com, French tourist was seriously injured at the island of Hvar in southern Croatia on Thursday late afternoon. She was freeclimbing in Sveta Nedjelja at the southern side of the island and fell from a four metres high cliff. The woman got transported with a helicopter in regional hospital in the city of Split. Sveta Nedjelja is known for attractive freeclimbing locations. Read article
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According to today.com, American director and producer Michael Bay was injured on Thursday in an attack in Hong Kong during filming for his latest “Transformers” movie. Two brothers surnamed Mak, aged 27 and 28, approached Bay on the set during filming for the American science fiction film and the younger brother demanded payment of HK$100,000 […]
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According to Reuters, it was just before midnight when the crude time-bomb exploded in the ninth-floor guest room in the luxurious Traders Hotel in Myanmar’s biggest city, badly wounding an American tourist and showering the streets below with glass. A police source told Reuters the explosion late on Monday was part of a coordinated series […]
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As reported by Voanews.com, a bomb blast at an upscale hotel in Burma’s main city, Rangoon, has wounded an American woman. The explosion, which took place late Monday at Traders Hotel, follows a series of suspected bomb blasts that killed two people and injured several others in the past four days. Read Article
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According to Sky News, a drunk airline passenger who stripped naked on the tarmac and challenged the flight captain to a fight had to be tasered by police. The burly, tattooed 52-year-old was caught on video stripping to his black underpants, shouting and remonstrating after stepping off the easyJet flight from Malta to Manchester. He […]
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According to thanhniennews.com, police in Thailand have rescued a Vietnamese businessman who was held hostage for 10 days after being cheated by another Vietnamese into paying the latter’s debts of 25 million baht (US$796,000). According to Thai police, Pham Tien Th., 50, was found unconscious with his legs and hands bound in a hotel room […]
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According to mercurynews.com, a Chinese tourist was in serious condition after tumbling from southeastern Utah’s Delicate Arch. Arches National Park spokesman Paul Henderson said Wednesday that the 27-year-old man from Beijing fell from the iconic, freestanding 65-foot red sandstone formation near Moab about 7 p.m. Tuesday. Henderson said the victim initially was found below the […]
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WPTV News reports that a 45-year-old woman is recovering in the hospital after being bitten by a shark in Ormond Beach. The woman, who is visiting from the Netherlands, was standing in only two-feet of water when it happened. Witnesses say something else likely attracted the shark to the shallow waters. Read article
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Sitting by the window, Shiho Nishiyamy was travelling back to Dhaka from her three-day trip to Cox’s Bazar on Thursday night, as reported by thedailystar.net. Suddenly, the bus was showered with bricks and stones from both sides, and a projectile struck her left eye holing through the window pane. “Her eye was bleeding,” said Krishna […]
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Thinking of Moving to Ecuador? This book will help you in your research. billingsgazette.com reported that a rock climber from Ecuador is recovering from a gunshot wound he received at a campground near a popular climbing location in northern Wyoming. Jose Mosquera is being treated at a hospital in Billings, where he is in stable […]
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