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Neighbors rescue paraplegic from house fire near Apache Junction

Edit AZ Central 01 Jun 2016
A 59-year-old paraplegic man was rescued by neighbors after a propane tank exploded Monday at his home in the Apache Junction area, according to the Pinal�County Sheriff's Office ... ....

Surfer in critical condition after shark 'bites off' leg

Edit ITV 01 Jun 2016
Mr Gerring's friend, Brian Williams, said he had just paddled further out into the ocean to catch a bigger wave when "all hell broke loose". "He was right out the back looking to get a big wave, one of the set ......

Shark bites off Australian surfer's leg

Edit BBC News 01 Jun 2016
"He was right out the back looking to get a big wave, one of the set waves that had been coming through during the day," Brian Williams, president of the Mandurah Boardriders Club and friend of the victim, told the ......

Invest in smart natural solutions to counter changing climate

Edit The Miami Herald 01 Jun 2016
The costs of climate change can also be measured by the effects on critical infrastructure at risk, such as hospitals, schools and businesses that are already at or near sea level and vulnerable to flooding and erosion from waves and storm surges ... Coral reefs, mangroves, wetlands, and sand dunes are the first lines of defense and increasingly recognized for their ability to slow waves, reduce flooding and protect infrastructure....

Beth Orton turns to nature on electronic 'Kidsticks'

Edit Times Union 01 Jun 2016
Beth Orton, "Kidsticks" (Anti/Epitaph) ... The song titles are concise — "Snow," ''Moon," ''Wave," ''Dawnstar," ''Falling" — but the emotions are intense ... Breathe me in," Orton pleads on "Wave," while sounding prematurely aged on "Falling," where her "phone book is filling up with dead friends." ... ....

Beauty queen faces jail if she insults Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan again

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 01 Jun 2016
The court said the sentence would be suspended on condition that she did not reoffend within the next five years ... Advertisement ...   ... Turkey's new wave of defamation cases are part of a growing tightening up of enforcement ... The 2013 protests began as a grass-roots movement to stop plans for the redevelopment of Gezi Park in central Istanbul but snowballed into a wave of nationwide wave of anger against the authorities ... ....

China starts new drug pricing probe

Edit BBC News 01 Jun 2016
China starts a new wave of drug pricing inspections today focussed on foreign and local pharmaceutical companies and hospitals in a bid to curb rising health costs ... ....

NYC scrutinizing Trump campaign's use of Trump Tower atrium

Edit Palm Beach Post 01 Jun 2016
... candidate Donald Trump waves as he leaves a news conference in New York, Tuesday, May 31, 2016....

Ex-eter marks the spot for Tassie pulsar hunters (CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
(Source ... Image. NASA/HST/ASU/J. Hester et al ... She is particularly interested in using the different types of masers (a maser is the radio equivalent of a laser, being beams of intense radio waves rather than light waves like in a laser) to trace the evolution of high-mass star formation and that is exactly what she will be using her 2015 L'Oreal award money for - continuing to develop her use of masers to study star formation ... (noodl....

Wealth management dangerously behind the curve in adoption of digital technology (PwC - Pricewaterhousecoopers International Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
why wealth management can't afford to miss the digital wave', which draws on interviews with wealth relationship managers, CEOs and FinTech innovators, and insights from a survey of 1,000 HNWIs in Europe, North America and Asia, reveals just a quarter of wealth managers offer digital channels beyond email ... stages of the first ecommerce-focused wave....

Norcross, Cooper to launch citywide Camden youth sports plan

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 01 Jun 2016
George E ... The city of 77,000 is in the midst of a crime wave, with more than twice as many homicides thus far in 2016 as at this time last year, and many of those involved with youth sports say afterschool and summer programs are the best ways to reach children who are most vulnerable to the pull of the streets. ....

Ironical twist to Sujana, Vijaya Sai's ride to RS

Edit The Times of India 01 Jun 2016
Vijayawada. In a curious case of irony, two leaders with dubious track records are tipped to become Rajya Sabha members ... Selection of Reddy, who was a close aide of former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, triggered a wave of protests in YSRC. It finally culminated in the resignation of former minister M V Mysoora Reddy ... RELATED. From around the web....

Air strikes kill 23 in Syria,Russia denies involvement

Edit Dawn 01 Jun 2016
BEIRUT. A wave of late night air strikes pummelled the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib, killing at least 23 people, wounding dozens and trapping several under the rubble of their homes, opposition activists said on Tuesday. At least seven children were among those killed in the strikes, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group that relies on local activists ... Gen ... Published in Dawn, June 1st, 2016 ... ....
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