Share. Share this with. Copy this link http.//www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-36573623. A huge snake that has lived in the roof of an Australianhome for 10 years has tried to upgrade to the master bedroom. Trina Hibberd, from Mission Beach in Queensland, awoke Monday to find the 5.2m scrub python named Monty stretched from her lounge room to her bedroom ... ....
NEW YORK (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who lost his daughter to a heroin overdose earlier this year was arrested with two other people after they were stopped while trying to drive through the Holland Tunnel with a cache of weapons on their way to "rescue" a teenage girl involved with drugs in New York, according to officials and social media posts from two of the men. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ....
A group of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives led by Rep.John Lewis of Georgia demanded action on gun control legislation stalled by Republican leadership in both houses of Congress by staging a sit-in on the House floor, National Public Radio reports. "Lawmakers are grouped in the well of the chamber, in front of the speaker's dais and in chairs in the front row ... "No bill, no break," they chanted ... "Mr. Speaker nothing ... ....
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A sick worker at a polar station located at the South Pole was airlifted from the site early Wednesday by a small plane making a daring rescue mission, U.S. officials said. The Canadian-owned Twin Otter turboprop plane is headed on the 1,500-mile rescue flight to Rather, a British station on the Antarctic peninsula, said Peter West, a spokesman for the National Science Foundation, which runs the polar station for the U.S....