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• Viking Orion: Cruise passengers stranded after fungus halts shi

  by barik 12934 January 1, 2023
  Hundreds of passengers have been stranded on a cruise ship floating off Australian coast after a fungus was found growing on its hull. The Viking Orion was reportedly denied permission to dock in Adelaide after authorities discovered a "marine growth" on the ship. Australia's fisheries departmen...
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• Brixton Academy: Security worker dies after Asake gig crush

  by barik 12934 December 19, 2022
  A second woman has died after being injured in a crush at a gig at London's Brixton O2 Academy. Gabrielle Hutchinson, 23, who was working as a security contractor that night, died in hospital in the early hours of Monday. The concert, by Afro-pop singer Asake, was cut short on Thursday after a "la...

• Strictly Come Dancing: Hamza's Wellingborough School 'very prou

  by barik 12934 December 19, 2022
  The 2022 Strictly Come Dancing winner's former school has said he has been a "huge inspiration" to its pupils. BBC wildlife presenter, Hamza Yassin, 32, who attended the private Wellingborough School in Northamptonshire 2004-2008, lifted the glitterball trophy on Saturday. Head teacher Andrew Holm...

• Is India experiencing a wave of horrific copycat killings after

  by barik 12934 December 15, 2022
  Some 30 years ago, a scientist in the Indian capital, Delhi, killed his wife following an altercation at home, chopped her body into parts and stuffed them into a trunk. He then travelled with the trunk more than 1,500km (932 miles) in a crowded train to the southern city of Hyderabad and checked i...

• Orion, a NASA spacecraft, is scheduled to splash down

  by barik 12934 December 11, 2022
  Nasa, the US space agency, is prepared to return its Orion capsule to Earth. The spacecraft, which has been orbiting the Moon for three weeks, is aiming for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. If all goes according to plan in the coming hours, the capsule, which is unman...