February 3, 2006
By KATIE SCHNEIDER, CALGARY SUN Calgarians awoke to a fire in the sky early Wednesday morning.
Alan Hildebrand, co-ordinator of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre, said 20 people reported seeing a fireball, an exceptionally bright meteor, streak across the sky just before 7 a.m., lasting for several seconds before breaking up into fragments. Reports were made from the Calgary area, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Pincher Creek and other areas, he said. "It had to be a bright one for everyone in the Calgary area to see," Hildebrand said. He estimated remnants of the meteorite landed about 400 km south of Calgary somewhere in Montana about two minutes after it appeared as a ball of fire. |
From correspondents in London
news.com.au February 04, 2006 TWO major glaciers in Greenland have recently begun to flow and break up more quickly under the onslaught of global warming, according to a new study which has raised the spectre of millions drowning from rising sea levels.
The report by the University of Swansea's School of the Environment and Society said the Kangerdlugssuaq and Helheim glaciers had doubled their rate of flow to the ocean over the past two years after steady movement during the 1990s. This spurt meant that current environmental models of the rate of retreat of Greenland's giant ice sheet – which could add seven metres to the height of the world's oceans if it disappears – had underestimated the problem. |
USGS
February 4, 2006 The latest earthquakes from around the world:
Magnitude 5.4 - 2006/02/04 09:17:04 - GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, ECUADOR Magnitude 6.0 - 2006/02/03 20:34:13 - ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION Magnitude 5.5 - 2006/02/03 16:00:13 - TONGA Magnitude 5.1 - 2006/02/03 14:20:50 - FIJI REGION Magnitude 5.2 - 2006/02/03 06:10:06 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN Magnitude 5.4 - 2006/02/03 04:37:36 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN |
CNN
Saturday, February 4, 2006 MANILA, Philippines -- A crowd of people awaiting entrance to a stadium in Manila stampeded Saturday, killing at least 73 people and injuring 322, an official said.
A report carried by the Associated Press quotes the Philippine Red Cross Chairman Senator Richard Gordon as saying the toll was at least 88 people. Some of the 20,000 people who were lined up outside the arena had been waiting for days to gain access to the stadium, where a game show was to be videotaped, Philippines Congressman Robert Jaworski told CNN. At 7 a.m., five hours before the show was to begin, people were being admitted to the stadium at such a slow pace that one member of the crowd apparently decided to hasten the process, he said. "Someone shouted and and screamed that there was a bomb," Jaworski said. "It was just a prank by one of those irresponsible people who wanted to get in first. Sadly, it caused a panic. It was a down-slope road and they started running down the hill ... they just started trampling each other." Most of the casualties were women, he said. |
By David McNeill in Tokyo
04 February 2006 Princess Masako is so weighed down by the demands of imperial life that she wants a divorce, according to the Japanese press, as opposition grows against plans to allow her child, Princess Aiko, to sit on the Chrysanthemum Throne.
Several magazines say that, after 13 unhappy years in the Imperial Palace, the Harvard-educated former diplomat is looking for a way out of her marriage to Emperor Akihito's son, Crown Prince Naruhito. The Imperial Household dismisses the speculation. The 42-year-old princess has spent the past two years largely out of public sight and has been diagnosed with a mental disorder that many blame on her struggle to produce a male heir. |
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February 4, 2006 |
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