Rangers suspended their attempts on Wednesday to recover the body of a man who wandered from a designated boardwalk and fell into an acidic hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, another in a string of incidents raising concerns over visitor behavior, the Associated Press reports. Park spokeswoman Charissa Reid indicated that the acidic water had essentially dissolved the body ... ....
Forces aligned with the UN-approved Libyan government and led by Brig. Gen.MohammedGhasri have seized a key bridge inside the city of Sitre, Libya, the Belfast Telegraph reported Wednesday. Sitre, the only ISIS-held city outside Syria and Iraq, was seen as a possible fallback option for the capital of the self-styled caliphate, the report said ... They are also making their way towards the port.– WN.com, Jack Durschlag....
The body of an unidentified person was discovered Tuesday afternoon in the LakeHunter section of Lakeland, Fla. inside the mouth of an eight-foot alligator, CBSNews reported.Lakeland police spokesman Gary Gross told CBS affiliate WTSP officers responded to a call concerning an alligator with a body in its mouth. Officers were able to retrieve the body, and Gross said a trapper was called to capture the eight-foot reptile....
Scott Kelly answers questions from NASA employees about his year in space. Three months after returning to Earth, Astronaut Scott Kelly is still feeling the effects of his year in space. Speaking at a NASA event answering questions about his mission, Kelly described how the length of his flights determined how bad he felt after landing ... "This flight was twice as long and I felt twice as bad," he told the crowd. He continued. ... ....
MallyLloyd, ExecutiveCouncil member from the Diocese of Massachusetts, speaks June 8 during a meeting of council's JointStanding Committee on Finances for Mission... Curry told the Executive Council as it opened its June 8-10 meeting here ... 16 of the General Convention's vote to approve the ordination of women as priests and bishops ... Council met in its five committees during the afternoon of June 8....
An ordinance introduced on the Columbus CityCouncil floor Monday has sparked a First Amendment debate by anti-abortion activists ... Columbus City Council member Elizabeth Brown was motivated to sponsor the ordinance by the national rise in intimidation and harassment around reproductive health-care sites, she said ... On the other hand, women and health-care providers have interests as well....
Irish black comedy gets ‘110% support’ from jury led by Apprentice star Margaret Mountford to win £30,000 award for fiction by women. Lisa McInerney, who started her career as a writer with a blog about life on a council estate in the “Arse End of Ireland”, has won the Baileys women’s prize for fiction with her debut novel, beating Man Booker winner Anne Enright and bestseller Hanya Yanagihara to the £30,000 award....
A team of researchers led by the University of Birmingham say that the demands of beauty routines particularly for women are increasing, with perceptions of a 'normal' body image changing fast ... Members of the Beauty Demands network made a series of recommendations in a policy briefing, The Changing Requirements of Beauty, delivered to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in London today....
Some Akron-area women were thrilled at the possibility of a woman leading the country for the first time in its history. Others said they weren’t inclined to support her, and one professor talked about the double standards women face in politics. “I literally got goose bumps watching her speech Tuesday night,” said Summit CountyCouncilPresident Ilene Shapiro....
The Hydrocarbon Skill Sector Council (HSSC), set up by the government under its Skill India initiative, has prepared a road map for training people in the sector. It has projected the need to train 19 lakh people, including the younger men and women that would join workforce through the decade as well as the existing employees engaged permanently or on short-term contracts with oil firms....
Around 1,000women are murdered for honor each year in Pakistan for allegedly defying conservating norms on love (Source... 3 }); }); ... Nearly 1,000 women are killed each year in so-called “honor killings” in Pakistan for allegedly violating conservative norms on love and marriage ... A month earlier, police arrested 13 members of a local tribal council who allegedly strangled a girl and set her on fire for helping a friend elope....