China has begun operating the world's largest radio telescope to help search for extraterrestrial life ... Construction took five years and cost $180 million ... ....
n">Eight people, including a three-year-old girl, were hurt in a shooting that Baltimore police called an act of “retaliatory violence” on Saturday night, authorities said ... ....
German writer Norman Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second world war. @msrachelcooke. The German writer Norman Ohler lives on the top floor of a 19th-century apartment building on the south bank of the river Spree in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Visiting him there is a vertiginous experience ... Not so very long ago, however, it was the GDR’s egg storage facility ... Twitter ... ....
There have been both peaceful demonstrations and violent protests every day since Tuesday's shooting of 43-year-old KeithLamontScott. the black man fatally shot by a Charlotte police officer. The officer is also black. Chief among protesters' demands has been the public release of dashcam and body camera video of the shooting. From the start, police have said Scott refused officers' demands to drop a gun ... ---. BODYCAMERA ... --- ... --- ... ....
A mechanical fault is likely to blame for a crane collapse which injured three men in North Sydney, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and EnergyUnion says ... ....
Workers suspended 60 metres above ground when crane malfunctioned on top of a high-rise building. Three men have been injured when a crane collapsed at a building in North Sydney...James said it was believed the workers were in the process of dismantling the crane when the accident occurred....
Three injured following crane collapse - North Sydney... Three men have been hospitalised after a crane collapsed on Sydney's lower north shore today. About 11.30am (Sunday 25 September 2016), emergency services were called to Arthur Street, North Sydney, following reports a crane had collapsed ... crane to assist the other men....
Workers rescued after apparent crane collapse Three workers were rescued at a Sydney building site after they were left suspended in mid air after an apparent crane collapse ... ....
NEW DELHI. Pushing the ports under shipping ministry to stay ahead in the business of their private competitors, the ministry has asked chiefs of 12 major ports to learn from them ... "They have indigenously developed the mechanism to operate cranes from their central control room. Operation of cranes seems like someone playing video game. You don't find an operator inside a crane, it's all operated from the central control room ... RELATED....
UPDATE. Emergency services had to cut one free from the crane’s bucket after he was lowered down, with two others injured after the collapse 25 storeys above the road in North Sydney... ....
After making the frightening discovery, the workers chained the animal to a crane and later lifted it up to reveal its yellow spotted under belly – a move which was criticised in the comments when the clip was uploaded to YouTube ... One user wrote ... Another said ... ....