A Brazilian tourist who fell hundreds of feet near an active volcano in Indonesia has been found dead after a four-day search and rescue effort. Juliana Marins, 26, was climbing Mount Rinjani with a group led by a tour guide when she slipped and fell off a cliff on the side of the mountain near … Read more
A Brazilian tourist who fell while hiking near the crater of an active volcano in Indonesia has been found dead, her family and rescuers said. Juliana Marins survived the initial fall from a cliff during an early morning group hike along a steep trail on Mount Rinjani, with rescuers reporting hearing her screams for help … Read more
Authorities in Northern California recovered the bodies of three hikers who died after jumping into a waterfall in a remote area near Lake Tahoe. The Placer County Sheriff’s Office announced the recovery Sunday. The three men were part of a group of six that were hiking last Wednesday in the Soda Springs area, roughly 30 … Read more
A bride was shot dead on her wedding night in a village near the south-east French city of Avignon after masked gunmen opened fire, local officials say. One suspected attacker was also killed in an apparent exchange of fire, and the groom and a child of 13 were seriously wounded during the incident in the … Read more
Danai Nesta Kupemba BBC News BBC At least eight people have died in a hot air balloon accident in Brazil, a state governor has said. There were 21 people on board the balloon in the city of Praia Grande on Saturday morning, Governor of Santa Catarina Jorginho Mello said in a post on X. Mello … Read more
ACAPULCO, Mexico — Authorities in southern Mexico were still assessing damage and watching rising rivers as rain from the remnants of Hurricane Erick doused the region. Torrential rains over steep coastal mountains and the landslides and flooding they could generate became ongoing concern for officials after Erick dissipated following a landfall early Thursday on a … Read more
Joel Gunter Reporting from Kyiv BBC Oleksandr Bondarchuk was unable to make it to a shelter when the strikes hit Kyiv. “It was terrible,” he said. “Everything was destroyed.” Evhen Povarenkov was standing at a line of police tape that separated the public from the intensive search and rescue operation around his building. He stared … Read more
Sunjay Kapur, a billionaire businessman, died on June 12 after collapsing during a polo match in Windsor, England. He was 53. The Telegraph, which was first to report the news, claimed that Kapur had died from anaphylactic shock after swallowing a bee during a polo match at the Guards Polo Club. According to the outlet, … Read more
Bali police have arrested two people over a shooting which killed one Australian and seriously injured another. Zivan Radmanovic, 32, was shot dead just after midnight on Saturday after two men broke into his villa in Munggu, in the south of the Indonesian tourist island. One of the suspects was arrested in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, … Read more
Gunmen have killed the mayor of the Mexican municipality of San Mateo Piñas in the latest deadly attack on local officials. Witnesses said four armed men arrived on motorcycles, stormed the village hall and opened fire on the mayor, Lilia Gema García Soto, and a local official who was in a meeting with her, Eli … Read more