93 m. ago Space debris found on fire near WA mining town suspected to be from Chinese rocket

Burning object made of carbon fibre discovered on desert road near mine site close to Newman on SaturdayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBurning space debris that crashed to Earth in outback Australia is likely part of a Chinese rocket that launched in September, according to leading space archaeologist Alice Gorman.Authorities are investigating the hunk of metal and carbon fibre after miners spotted it near Newman, Western Australia on Saturday afternoon. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Authorities investigate the death of a rail conductor who was struck by a train in Montana

Authorities are investigating the death of a rail conductor who was hit by a passing train in Montana

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64 h. ago Welsh council was investigated by watchdog over housing repairs, says local authority official

Cardiff Council also published a report recently showing that it had seen an increase in demand for certain housing repairs across the city

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3 d. ago AD FEATURE: UK pet owners could see major change to vets' price lists under proposed rules

Vet prices have risen at nearly twice the rate of inflation, according to a vet watchdog investigation from the Competition and Markets Authority

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3 d. ago Jittery Kremlin fears coup attempt to topple Putin from within by exiled billionaire Russian oil tycoon

Russian authorities opened a fresh investigation against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once the country's richest man and one of Putin's fiercest critics.

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1 week ago ‘Radioactive’ shrimp crisis: Indonesia grapples with contaminated industrial zone

Authorities investigate site after shrimp exported to the US found to contain hazardous isotope Caesium-137A large industrial zone on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, is grappling with radioactive contamination after a government taskforce found traces of the hazardous isotope Caesium-137 at 22 production facilities at the site, which includes businesses that export frozen seafood.The discovery, which has prompted emergency decontamination and relocation of residents, follows a contamination scare in the US that was traced back to the Jakarta facilities. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Their chemistry made one of their deaths inevitable’: how a billionaire couple’s life in paradise turned deadly

He made millions on Wall Street, moved to the Costa Rican jungle with his wife and ended up being shot in bed. A new podcast tells the wild tale of the US couple whose dream became a nightmareThe death of John Bender mystified the world. A handsome American millionaire, Bender moved to Costa Rica with his wife, Ann, two years after they married, and set about building a 2,000-hectare nature reserve, centred on a mountaintop mansion that had neither walls nor windows. But despite moving to this vision of paradise, the couple’s mental health fell into sharp decline and in January 2010, Bender died of a gunshot wound to the head.Thanks to an unscientific forensic investigation by the Costa Rican authorities, the perpetrator remains unknown. Suicide is one option – John had written emails about wanting to die in the weeks previously – but the fact that he was shot in the back of the head, in bed, while wearing earplugs, suggests that Ann may have shot him. In the intervening years, the ...

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1 week ago Tainted alcohol mass poisoning leaves three dead and hundreds sick in Brazil

Authorities in Brazil are investigating the source of the tainted drinks, mainly gin, vodka, and whiskey, and whether the contamination was intentional or accidental

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2 w. ago Rail firm fined £1m over death of woman who put her head out of train window

Bethan Roper, 28, died after being struck by a tree branch while returning home after a day out shopping

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2 w. ago Rail firm fined £1m over death of woman who stuck her head out train window

Great Western Railway (GWR) has been fined £1 million and ordered to pay more than £78,000 in costs after pleading guilty to breaches of health and safety law

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2 w. ago Rail firm is fined £1million over death of woman who was killed by a tree branch while sticking her head out of an open train window at 75mph

Bethan Roper, 28, died after hitting her head on an overhanging tree branch on a Great Western Railway (GWR) train travelling at 75mph near Twerton, Bath, in 2018.

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2 w. ago Drone sighting shuts major European airport as thousands disrupted

Authorities confirmed on Friday they are investigating the incident

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2 w. ago Mystery drone sightings reported over critical infrastructure in northern Germany

German authorities are investigating reports of unidentified drones potentially spying on critical infrastructure in Schleswig-Holstein

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2 w. ago Colorado authorities open probe into death of Hunter S. Thompson two decades after renowned author was discovered dead at his ranch

The death of author Hunter S. Thompson is now under investigation more than 20 years after it was ruled a suicide after his widow Anita Thompson requested it from the sheriff's office.

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3 w. ago Ironic Hillary Clinton twist emerges in Trump DOJ’s indictment of James Comey: report

The former FBI boss is accused in a federal indictment of authorizing an anonymous leak about an ongoing federal investigation

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3 w. ago Ticketmaster agree to two things after Oasis ticket controversy left fans fuming

The ticket retailer was subject to an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority over so-called 'dynamic pricing' of tickets for high-demand gigs

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3 w. ago Ticketmaster forced to change pricing and sales tactics after Oasis row

Company must be clearer about what fans will pay and avoid ‘misleading’ labels about ticket quality, says CMABusiness live – latest updatesTicketmaster has been forced by the competition watchdog to change how it advertises concert tickets – including ending “misleading” information about the seats they are buying – after a fan backlash over its handling of the Oasis reunion tour.After a year-long investigation, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Ticketmaster had agreed to make changes to its sales tactics, in a move welcomed by the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Danish PM: airport drone incursion a ‘serious attack’ on critical infrastructure

Mette Frederiksen says she cannot rule out Russia’s involvement after Copenhagen airport forced to shutThe Danish prime minister has said the country was subjected to the “most serious attack on Danish critical infrastructure to date” after a drone incursion shut Copenhagen airport for several hours.Mette Frederiksen said authorities were still investigating who was behind the suspected hybrid attack, but she said she could not rule out Russia. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Serious incident’ as passenger planes narrowly avoid collision while landing on Nice airport runway

Aviation authorities are investigating the near-contact between Nouvelair and easyJet flights

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3 w. ago Danish PM links drone sightings that closed Copenhagen and Oslo airports with recent European airspace violations – Europe live

Copenhagen airport closed for four hours after large drones seen in vicinity, while Oslo airport closed for three hours following two sightingsThere has been no update on what happened to the drones that disrupted the operations at Copenhagen airport last night.Danish media earlier questioned whether they came from the land or from the sea, but authorities declined to offer more detail at this stage of the investigation. Continue reading...

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