January 2024 – World Top News Now

Great white sighting may reveal a ‘holy grail’ of shark science

30Jan

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Great white sighting may reveal a ‘holy grail’ of shark science

Drone footage shot off the coast of Southern California may have revealed the first ever glimpse of a newborn great white shark in the wild. The 1.5-metre-long white shark was spotted on July 9, 2023, 400 metres off the coast of Carpinteria, California, by wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna and Phillip Sternes, a doctoral student in the department of biology at University of California Riverside, while they were shooting aerial video and images. Its pale colouring and size immediately struck the duo as unusual. Adult great white sharks are grey on top and white underneath. Gauna and Sternes examined the images and video in the viewfinder of the drone camera and noticed a thin, white film covering the shark that was sloughing off the animal as it moved. "We enlarged t...

A man called 911 and said he’d been shot. Authorities found him and five others dead in a California desert after a drug dispute

30Jan

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A man called 911 and said he’d been shot. Authorities found him and five others dead in a California desert after a drug dispute

Authorities in southern California have arrested five men in connection to the grisly killings of six people discovered shot – and some of whom were also burned – last week in a remote area of the Mojave Desert. All six had apparent fatal gunshot wounds – and four of the bodies had also been burned, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office Sergeant Michael Warrick said during a Monday evening (Tuesday morning AEDT) news conference. The killings appear to be connected to illegal marijuana, authorities said, though they did not release many details, as the case is being reviewed by the district attorney's office. The victims, all men, were discovered last Tuesday night after dispatchers received a 911 call from one of them. Warrick said the man told them in Spanish he had ...

Passengers support man who opened emergency exit and walked on plane’s wing

29Jan

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Passengers support man who opened emergency exit and walked on plane’s wing

A major airport in Mexico has confirmed a man opened an emergency exit and walked out on a wing of a plane that was parked and waiting for takeoff last week. In a statement, The Mexico City International Airport said the man had been turned over to police. But dozens of fellow passengers signed a written copy of a statement saying the airline made them wait for four hours without ventilation or water while the flight was delayed. According to photos of the statement posted online, fellow passengers said he acted "to protect everyone, with the support of everyone." The airport said in a statement that "yesterday a passenger on a flight to Guatemala opened an emergency door on a plane while it was stationary at a remote position, stood on a wing and then re-entered ...

North Korean leader Kim supervises tests of cruise missiles designed to be fired from submarines

29Jan

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North Korean leader Kim supervises tests of cruise missiles designed to be fired from submarines

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised test firings of new cruise missiles designed to be launched from submarines and also reviewed efforts to build a nuclear-powered submarine while reiterating his goal of building a nuclear-armed navy to counter what he portrays as growing external threats, state media said Monday. The report came a day after South Korea's military said it detected North Korea firing multiple cruise missiles over waters near the eastern port of Sinpo, where the North has a major shipyard developing submarines. It was the latest in a streak of weapons demonstrations by North Korea amid increasing tensions with the United States, South Korea and Japan. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects what North Korea says is the test firing. The content of ...

Russian courts jail a Putin critic and a woman convicted of a blast that killed a pro-war blogger

26Jan

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Russian courts jail a Putin critic and a woman convicted of a blast that killed a pro-war blogger

A Russian court on Thursday sentenced a woman to 27 years in prison for a cafe blast that killed a prominent pro-war blogger after he was given a bust of himself that later exploded. In a separate proceeding, a Moscow court convicted a former leader of separatist rebels in Ukraine who called President Vladimir Putin a coward of extremism and sentenced him to four years. Darya Trepova, 26, was convicted by a court in St. Petersburg of carrying out a terrorist attack, illegal trafficking of explosive devices and forging documents in the April 2 blast at the cafe in which Vladlen Tatarsky was killed and 52 others were injured. Tatarsky, 40, was an ardent supporter of the Kremlin's military action in Ukraine and filed regular reports on the fighting from the front lines. ...

Bidding to start at less than $1 for this oceanfront property

26Jan

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Bidding to start at less than $1 for this oceanfront property

If you're after an affordable seaside property with great views, no immediate neighbours, and within walking distance of a shop and pub, and you don't much mind the occasional wave or two sweeping through, this New Zealand land block could be just the spot. Number 7 Clifton Road at Haumoana, Hawke's Bay, on the country's North Island, is up for auction with a reserve of just NZ$1 (93 Australian cents). Architect Andy Coltart has owned the property and another one nearby for more than five years and had harboured aspirations of one day starting a seaside restaurant, but after years of dreaming he has come to the sad realisation that the plan won't pass the "sanity test". In short, the odds of getting all the various permits and consents required to get his dream off the...

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