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m Tunde Onakoya, a 29-year-old Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate, played the royal game for 60 straight hours in an attempt to break the the…
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London Breed, mayor of San Francisco, said the city "is absolutely thrilled to be welcoming giant pandas" as she announced plans for its zoo to receive a pair …
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Joe Szuszwalak, a spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said the agency waited nearly a year to announce the birth of two more black-footed ferrets…
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Bill Melvin, manager of the Butte, Mont., Civic Center, said a female elephant was spooked by a passing vehicle backfiring and managed to break free from its h…
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m Gil McRae, director of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, said staffers "are hopeful this rescue a…
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Chaos at a Sydney mall as 6 people stabbed to death, and the suspect fatally shot
A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, m…
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Andre Schule, a veterinarian at Berlin's zoo, claims that there is no gorilla older than 67-year-old Fatou in any other zoo, "and we have to assume that there …
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Lee Hsin Hung, handler of Roger, one of four search and rescue dogs deployed by the Kaohsiung Fire Department at Taroko National Park in Hualien, Taiwan, said …
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Mike O'Neill, manager of New England Aquarium's Giant Ocean Tank, said Myrtle -- a 95-year-old green sea turtle -- is "in robust condition," as the 500-pound r…
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m Kadir Demirtas, Istanbul Airport's customer experience manager, said staffers ensure that five newly deployed therapy dogs at the Turkish transportation hub …
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Parents of Michigan school shooter sentenced
PONTIAC, Mich. -- The first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting were sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday as a Michigan judge lamented…
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Assistant principal charged in child’s shooting of teacher
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school has been charged with felony child neglect more than a year after a 6-year-ol…
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Security guard won’t be charged in fatal nightclub shooting in Springdale
SPRINGDALE -- Prosecutors won't file charges against a security guard in connection with a fatal shooting outside a Springdale nightclub in December, saying it…
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m John Tinniswood, 111, of Southport, England, was confirmed as the world's oldest man by Guinness World Records and while the retired accountant credits moder…
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m Jonathan Levin, 51, dean of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, said in a statement he's excited "to lead our faculty and students as they a…
