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Not even tasers were enough to subdue the three savage dogs who attacked Diane, 43, and her partner Peter, 48, outside their Penrith home in western Sydney on Wednesday night.
The animal's owner, Kirk Wake, 29, has been charged after failing to keep the dogs locked up, according to 9 News.
Two of the dogs were described as being of American Staffordshire-cross-Pitbull appearance.
© NOAAVeterinary team from NOAA, the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, International Fund for Animal Welfare, and North Carolina State University assess the stranded humpback whale.
The death of the whale, which weighed between 15 and 20 tons and was about 33 feet long, angered some environmentalists and locals who had watched the rescue effort. One state senator called for a hearing into the failed rescue.
Officials with the Riverhead Foundation of Marine Research and Preservation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration insisted the best chance for the whale's escape was hoping a high tide would allow it to free itself, but that never occurred.
They suggested it was likely the whale may have been ailing and that was the reason it became stranded in Moriches Bay, on eastern Long Island. The shallow bay has rarely been the site of whale visits.
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Fazlie Lai Fauzi, 36, succumbed to his injuries at the scene while his colleague, Maidah Banir, 46, is reported to be in critical condition at the intensive care unit of Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH).
It was learnt that both victims were working in the school compound when the incident happened around 3.20pm.
District police chief DSP Rosley Hobden confirmed the incident and said the injured victim was still being treated in hospital for his injuries.
Police have classified the case as a sudden death report due to lightning.
Source: The Borneo Post
© Tasmanian Rover Ski Club.Snow falling in Tassie has sent internet punters into a tail spin.
With summer merely days away it has begun to snow in Tasmania.
Footage shows snow falling in our southern most state late Wednesday afternoon has gone viral and left internet users stunned.
The footage was uploaded to the Tasmanian Rover Ski Club social media accounts as a possible last minute push for potential ski bunnies to flock to the slopes.
"It is only 7 days until summer though you would not think that on Ben Lomond late this afternoon," the post reads.
The footage has been viewed over 170,000 times since it was first posted.
The temperature today in Tasmania will reach a low of 7 degrees.
Tasmanians could be witnessing a new trend, the Apple Isle having been struck by out-of-season around the same time last November and again in February this year.
In stark contrast, neighbouring Victoria this week experienced severe thunderstorms, high winds, grassfires and a steep drop in temperature from a November record high - all in one day.
© YouTube/breaking news (screen capture)Peru's Sabancaya volcano erupts.
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Sabancaya has been restless for the last two years, with periods of heightened activity and a return to quiet. However, it looks like the Peruvian volcano has entered a new phase of activity since early November. The volcano has produced dozens of explosive eruptions since November 6, when the renewed activity began.
This first explosion generated an M3.6 earthquake as well. Ash has reached 1.5-3.5 kilometers (4,900-11,400 feet) over the volcano and spread ash over 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the volcano on the people living across the area. The ash plumes (see below) have been some of the highest ever recorded at Sabancaya and video from the explosions show a vigorous plume of dark grey ash from the volcano.
© Google Maps The second earthquake in three days to hit off the coast of Fukushima province in Japan, this one reported as a 6.1 magnitude by the Japan Meteorological Agency, hit around 6:23 a.m. Thursday morning. It was felt in Tokyo, like the previous one, however no tsunami warning was issued and there have been no reports of injuries or damage to property.
The quake occurred about 6.30am (local time) on Thursday 37km south of Namie, according to the, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Five smaller earthquakes measuring between 4.6 and 3.2 magnitudes followed in quick succession within and hour and a half.
A sixth stronger earthquake measuring 5.2 in magnitude struck just after 9.30 am (local time) in the Tori-shima Kinkai region, which is an uninhibited island located about 600km south of Tokyo.
There have been no reports of injury or damage and no tsunami warning has been issued, according to Nine News.
A 7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima on Tuesday, triggering a one metre tsunami.
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Video obtained by Critica shows several houses sitting on a cliff disappearing as the ground beneath it collapses.
As the houses slowly sink down the cliff, those filming can be heard yelling and screaming.
Miraculously, houses on each side - which appear to be newer than those which sunk - remain intact.
The houses are in San Miguelito, a city which lies in the Panama Province - roughly 25km from the nation's capital.
Three deaths have already been linked to Otto in Panama.
Hurricane Otto is expected to intensify as it approaches Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
© AP Photo/Koji SasaharaPeople walk against blowing snow in Tokyo.
Japan's meteorologists do not exclude that by Friday morning, there could be up to two centimeters (almost one inch) of snow in Tokyo.
© Andrey Rudakov/BloombergA frozen road in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia.
- U.S. could get a blast of cold from north to south in December
- MIT scientist's research contradicts prevailing U.S. forecasts
He's the father of the "Siberian Snow Theory." In a nutshell, he argues that the more snow covering the ground in northern Eurasia, the colder we can expect it down below. Sadly, Siberia is looking pretty white already.
Judah Cohen, a renowned MIT climatologist, has been working on this theory for 17 years, despite skepticism from some U.S. government weather experts. Cohen, who figures his theory has been right 75 percent of the time, spies all the makings of an early, cold winter.
"This year, we have had this very textbook situation," Cohen said.
Comment: The signs are already here, with early snowfalls and cold records already being set: