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Winds of more than 50 miles an hour and a temperature of minus 62 degrees Celsius (minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit) forced the rescue team to cancel their plans to scan the mountains for the Polish climber.

An Indian man was killed in a hospital accident.

Kamprad started Ikea in 1943, at the age of 17, and went on to become one of the richest men in the world.

Health ministry spokesman Waheed Majrooh confirmed the number of casualties. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

The research found a six-fold increase in incidences of heart attacks in people within a week after a flu diagnosis had been confirmed.

30 years ago, Scottish schoolchildren sent out a message in a bottle, which showed up in the Florida Keys in September.

Archaeologists found a prehistoric red object that looks like a crayon and that Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have used to color their lives.

Republic Day is one of three national holidays in India, the other two being Independence Day on Aug. 15 and Gandhi Jayanti — the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi — on Oct. 2.

Of the three suspects involved in the failed robbery, one was arrested soon after the incident while the other two are being sought by police in Ottawa, Canada.

The insects are smarter than most people usually think. They prefer to bite some people, and not others, and can also learn to avoid certain individuals who they associate with swatting.

More than 100 patients were inside the building and a neighboring nursing home when the blaze broke out at Sejong Hospital in South Korea.

Scientists have measured how much different lunch sandwiches affect the environment.

Don’t judge a zebra by its stripes, because scientists have found nine genetic subpopulations of plains zebras that do not line up with previous classifications based on their physical appearance.

A snake owner was found dead in his home, strangled by his pet python.

Merkel said nationalism ignores the lessons learned from the great conflicts of the 20th century.

Homo sapiens have been around for about 300,000 years, according to the oldest known fossil of our species, but our rounded brains evolved much later.

Police in the Mexican state of Guerrero said that she was never seen or heard from again after she left for her ex-husband’s house.

Reports stated the shark carcasses were gutted and their fins removed.

Two carriages of a commuter train in Italy peeled off the rails and came to rest at an angle. Rescue crews climbed through them, helping the passengers to escape.

Jay Greenwood, 46, a resident of British Columbia, fell into the foam pit at a trampoline facility while "allegedly performing a series of acrobatic maneuvers," which resulted in a serious injury and cardiac arrest.

A woman was unable to work for several months and suffered from chronic urinary tract infections after she "gave birth" to a latex glove and five compresses, which a surgeon allegedly forgot in her womb during an operation.

The airlines said that the staff member was given immediate medical attention upon landing.

A new species of fly found in Brazil is the world’s smallest but it has bulging biceps like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

A nonprofit developed a system that includes drones and sterile mosquitos to fight the zika virus and other diseases transmitted by the insects.

About 1.7 billion years ago, both continents — and much of the rest of Earth’s landmass — was stuck together in a supercontinent called Nuna.

It was thought only 20-40 individuals of red handfish, named after its ability to use its fins to propel itself along the seafloor, remained in the world.

“When we first saw the video we’re just totally embarrassed and frustrated with the situation,” Jeff Kacmarek, vice-president of marketing for Domino’s Pizza said after a delivery driver was caught on video eating toppings from a pizza.

The surveillance aircraft, KJ-600, weighs 25-30 tons and has a twin-engine FWJ-6C turboprop engines to power it. It is said to be different from other Chinese twin-engine planes due to its folding wings and a four-rudder airframe tail.

As opioid drug addiction rises, so does the number of babies born in withdrawal. That carries serious health consequences.