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. ... ....
A senior ANZ executive had his arm around Pankaj Oswal's neck as he told the Indian businessman to "bloody well sign or we will destroy you", a court has heard. Mr Oswal was stooped forward under the weight of then ANZ chief risk officer Chris Page's arm during heated discussions in 2009, the Victorian Supreme Court heard....
Westpac and ANZ will no longer lend to overseas-based buyers of New Zealand property - and other banks are expected to follow the move to shut the door on foreign investors ...ANZ has also announced restrictions that will effectively shut out most non-resident, overseas-based borrowers, including restricting lending to owner-occupied properties ... "It's the goal of a bank to make money from mortgage lending ... "We are still doing analysis ... ....
By Henning Gloystein. SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices remained near 2016 highs in early trading on Thursday, buoyed by a fall in U.S ... U.S ... crude oil inventories ...ANZ bank said that price rises were "tempered by an increase in crude production of 10,000 barrels per day to 8.75 million barrels per day and the number of active rigs increasing by 9 to 325"....
Oregon'sNCAA outdoor championship sweep for both the men's and women's track teams last year was unprecedented ...Despite the home-track advantage at Oregon's Hayward Field, the Ducks aren't atop the rankings heading into the championship meet, which opened Wednesday and runs through Saturday ... It's the second straight season that the championships have been divided by days....
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.- BakersfieldMayorHarvey Hall presented the CSUB softball team with Mayor's Appreciation Medals to commemorate their WAC softball championship and the program's first appearance in the NCAA Regionals. Softball was the second team to win a WAC championship in 2016 joining men's basketball as champions this past season....
(Source. North Melbourne Football Club). North Melbourne's opponent this week will have a different looking forward line to normal. Geelong's Tom Hawkins is out suspended this week, opting to accept his one-match ban for striking. Since the start of 2013, Hawkins has missed just five matches. The Cats have had a 3-2 record in those clashes. - 2015, Round 7. defeated by Sydney (finished fourth) at ANZStadium. - 2015, Round 3 ... - 2013, Round 5....