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Thursday, 7 May 2015

Hundreds of bodies may be buried in Nepal avalanche.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Body parts are strewn on the slopes of a mountain in Nepal, and up to 300 people, many of them foreigners, are believed buried there by an avalanche set off by last month's devastating earthquake, as fact had it on Thursday.





Rescuers pulled out six bodies from the Langtang village area, 60 km (40 miles) north of Kathmandu, on Wednesday but operations were being hampered by bad
weather, said Gautam Rimal, assistant district administrator in the area.
About 100 bodies were recovered in the area on Saturday and about 120 more were buried there. But on Thursday he said the number could be as high as 300, including 110 foreigners. "There are body parts, broken limbs and pieces of flesh scattered in the area," as fact had it.

The government has said 7,759 people were killed in the April 25 earthquake and more than 16,000 injured. Langtang is on a trekking route popular with Westerners
and the village had 55 guesthouses catering for visitors. The village was 'wiped out by the avalanche' but it was not clear how many people were there at the time.

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Large dinosaur fossil discovered in China

A 126-million-year-old fossil of a large dinosaur has been discovered in northeast China's Liaoning province.

Experts with the provincial fossil resources protection bureau said the fossil, found in a village under Chaoyang city, belongs to a 15-meter-long sauropod dinosaur living in the Cretaceous Period. The fossil was first discovered by a local villager while farming recently.

A preliminary exploration has been carried out and part of the fossil has been unearthed. Sun Yongshan, head of the provincial fossil resources protection bureau, said experts will soon work out excavation and protection plans and a professional team will be organised to carry out the excavation.

THE EIGHT DRUG CONVICTS INDONESIA EXECUTED

The eight people who were executed in Indonesia. Top row from left (including two of the Bali Nine): Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, Nigerian Okwuduli Oyatanze and Nigerian Martin Anderson. Bottom row from left: Nigerians Raheem Agbaje Salami, Silvester Obiekwe Nwolise, Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte and Indonesian Zainal Abidin.
"We respect Indonesia's sovereignty but we do deplore what's been done and this cannot be simply business as usual," Prime Minister Tony Abbott said in Canberra, adding that ambassador Paul Gibson would return to Australia by the end of the week.

Obama to send high-powered delegation to Buhari’s inauguration

 International interest in Nigeria’s political transition and the planned
transfer of power from the Jonathan-Sambo presidency to the Buhari-
Osinbajo presidency billed for May 29 has risen in the United States as
President Barack Obama now considers sending a high-powered U.S.
delegation to the event.
Besides, at least two US Ivy universities-Harvard and Yale – have since held
special review sessions where scholars were invited from around the U.S.
and the world to give lectures and seminars on the outcome of the
Nigerian elections, focusing on the emergence of a former military head of
state, who is a Muslim from the North of Nigeria, and a Christian pastor,
who is a law professor from the South as president-elect and vice
president-elect respectively.

Woman in wheelchair wins treadmill on 'Price is Right'

Nothing like a good sense of humor! A comedian named Danielle Perez competed on
The 'Price Is Right' this week, but her time on the game show took an unexpected turn with one cringeworthy prize.
Perez, who has no feet and is in a wheelchair, was picked to "Come on down" and
meet host Drew Carey . She competed for big money and coveted prize packages —
specifically a new sauna and, awkwardly, a top-of-the-line treadmill. She expressed
her excitement over being picked to Carey, and was just as enthusiastic about both of the potential prizes, gushing, "These are really nice!"

Salman Khan, Bollywood star, granted bail after deadly hit-and- run conviction


Bollywood actor Salman Khan sits in a car as he leaves a court in Mumbai Wednesday where he was sentenced to five years in prison for killing a man in a hit-and-run accident. Khan later secured two days of interim bail from Mumbai's high court and will return to court on Friday for a hearing on having the bail
extended.

Beyoncé And Jay Z Skip The Limo, Hop In The Back Of A Truck In Hawaii

After Beyoncé was spotted at a Big Island resort giving performance advice to a nine-year old , the Carters skipped their usual luxury transportation and hitched a ride in the back of a pickup truck, as seen.

Bey and Jay are celebrating their seventh wedding anniversary in the chillest way possible, while Blue Ivy spends some family time with Auntie Solange in Los Angeles. Maybe it's just Beyoncé's flowers blowing in the tropical breeze or the shaka sign Jay flashed to the cameraman, but Hawaii's starting to look really good on the music moguls.