When Norwegian climber Kristin Harila stepped onto the summit of Cho Oyu this month she became the fastest woman to climb all 14 of the world's 8,000-metre peaks.. One of the 8,000-metre mountains -- Shishapangma -- is wholly in Tibet, while another -- Cho Oyu -- is normally climbed from the Chinese side.
The brush-tailed bettong -- a rare, very cute marsupial resembling a rabbit-sized kangaroo -- is bouncing back on the South Australian mainland, more than 100 years after disappearing from the region.. "We are really hoping that the brush-tailed bettong is just one of the first of many species that we can bring back and help restore the bush." djw/dva
A 48-year-old man accused of igniting a New Zealand hostel fire that killed at least five people claimed that someone else started the blaze during a court appearance Friday.. The man, whose name was suppressed by the court, was remanded in custody.
Tens of thousands of Israeli nationalists marched to Jerusalem's Old City on Thursday in an annual flag-waving march commemorating Israel's capture of it, as tensions on the Gaza border remained high.. In Gaza, thousands gathered for a rival flag day on the Israeli border, many of them holding Palestinian flags.
Top US Republican Kevin McCarthy said Thursday he saw "the path" to a breakthrough in talks to avert a looming debt default, despite signals from his party's hard right that they would not soften their demands for deep spending cuts. . In a sign of the challenge McCarthy faces in selling a watered-down version to the Republican right wing, the 45-member Freedom Caucus hardened its stance on the debt limit Thursday, calling for an end to negotiations.
The United States unveiled "significant" new sanctions targeting Russia's "war machine" on Friday, as President Joe Biden meets fellow G7 leaders in Japan.. Biden will become only the second American leader to visit the city Washington bombed at the close of World War Two though, like former president Barack Obama, he is not expected to make an apology for the attack.
More than half of the world's largest lakes and reservoirs are dwindling and placing humanity's future water security at risk, with climate change and unsustainable consumption the main culprits, a study said Thursday.. Increased temperatures from climate change drive evaporation, but can also decrease precipitation in some places.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Thursday retracted his claim that four Indigenous children missing for more than two weeks after an airplane crash in the Amazon had been found alive.. It said the report indicated that "they had been found alive and are also in good health."
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Thursday retracted his claim that four Indigenous children missing for more than two weeks after an airplane crash in the Amazon had been found alive.. Avianline Charters, owner of the crashed aircraft, had previously said that one of its pilots in the search area was told the children had been found and that they "were being transported by boat downriver and that they were all alive."
The tumultuous campaign by Imran Khan, Pakistan's most popular politician, to reclaim power has been driven by an economic crisis that ordinary people say has left them unable to feed their families.. "The system is leaving tens of millions of people behind," said economic analyst Khurram Husain.
