Month: November 2019

Alec Ingram, a 14-year-old from Washington, Missouri, died on November 7 after battling cancer for over four years. Alec was diagnosed in 2015 with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. ### More than 2,100 sports cars and 70 motorcycles gathered in the Six Flags St. Louis parking lot on Sunday before starting their journey towards Washington to fulfill the sports car lover’s last wish. ### CNN has reached out to Alec’s family for comment.…

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The attack happened near a popular walking trail in the city of Wodonga, in the state of Victoria, according to CNN affiliate 9News. Dina, who declined to share her last name, let her pet dog off its leash and it began chasing a large male kangaroo — prompting her to try to intervene. ### “I ran up the embankment to try and get my dog away but not realizing that I was only three or…

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Air quality dropped to “hazardous” levels in the Sydney area overnight, according to the New South Wales Bureau of Meteorology. ### Health officials advised people to “significantly cut back” on any outdoor physical activities, and sensitive groups to avoid it altogether. ### In some areas of Sydney, the air quality was so bad that officials warned everyone to “avoid outdoor exertion and stay inside as much as possible.” ### Children, older adults and people with…

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US citizen Kevin King and Australian citizen Timothy Weeks were forcibly removed from a vehicle while traveling in Kabul in August 2016, according to the FBI. Their release was announced Tuesday by the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF), where both men taught. ### In a statement on Tuesday, the Taliban said Anas Haqqani — who is the brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, the deputy leader of the group and leader of the Haqqani Network — and…

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Bear, a border collie-koolie cross, is a detection dog who sniffs out live koalas during search and rescue operations in New South Wales’ Northern Rivers region, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). ### “IFAW specifically sponsors koala detection dog Bear, but there are other dogs which the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland works with, some of which are trained to sniff for koala droppings, whereas Bear is trained to sniff…

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Video of the dramatic rescue Wednesday shows motorist Toni Doherty running from her car to help the koala near Port Macquarie, New South Wales (NSW) as the catastrophic fires that have ravaged the state burn all around them. ### “It was terrifying to see him just come out of the flames and he looked so defenseless running along the road,” Doherty told CNN affiliate 9News. ### “I knew I needed to put something around him…

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A dust storm turned the sky bright orange and covered everything in sight. Photos from the city, in the state of Victoria, look like they have been filtered with a red lens. ### The dust hit the city around midday with winds measuring up to 40 kilometers per hour (about 24.8 miles per hour) and temperatures hitting nearly 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), according to CNN affiliate 7News. ### The dust storm was exacerbated by…

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Millane was last seen in the center of Auckland, a major city on New Zealand’s North Island, on December 1. Her body was subsequently found by police in a wooded area in the Waitakere Ranges, west of the city. ### The man, whose name is under a court suppression order, is ruled to have deliberately killed the 21-year-old in his hotel room in Auckland last December. ### The pair met on a dating app and…

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The incident happened on Wednesday night in Paramatta, about 15 miles west of Sydney, the police said in a statement. ### The 31-year-old woman, who the police said was 38 weeks’ pregnant, was sitting at a table, eating and chatting with friends. ### CCTV footage of the incident shows a man slowly approaching the victim, leaning over the table before punching her in the head. ### In the statement, the police said the man allegedly…

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“In what is a national tragedy, the bushfires in and around Port Macquarie in November devastated a genetically diverse koala population,” Port Macquarie Koala Hospital said. ### “As many as 350 koalas have perished, with approximately 75% of the fireground footprint being prime koala habitat.” ### The hospital established a GoFundMe account to help affected koalas recuperate. ### The infernos have dealt a devastating blow to the koala population, which was already plummeting prior to…

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