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© Mathew VickersA 17-year-old suffered ‘deep lacerations’ when he was bitten by a suspected reef shark about 30km offshore from Nhulunbuy on Sunday.
The 17-year-old was bitten on his arm and leg about 30km offshore from Nhulunbuy in Arnhem Land on Sunday morning, NT police said.
He was treated by paramedics who reached his vessel with police, before being taken to hospital in Gove.
The boy was later airlifted to Royal Darwin hospital suffering "deep lacerations", a Careflight spokesman said.
The ABC reported that authorities believe the teenager was bitten by a reef shark.
Sunday's attack comes after a man was airlifted to hospital after a shark bit him at a beach south of Wollongong on Saturday.
Comment: Related article: Man dies after stingray attack while swimming near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Return of the monkey: Video footage shows the same howler monkey returning to the flat a week after it broke in and attacked the toddler
She saved her from the wild animal's jaws, but the child has had to undergo emergency plastic surgery to reconstruct part of her forehead after suffering a horrific bite.
The monkey bit down into her skull, exposing the bone underneath, Julia's dad says.
And relatives believe little Julia would have been killed if her mother hadn't reacted so quickly.
Comment: This is the third attack by primates on a human within a week, the other 2 involving fatalities: Woman killed by monkeys in Agra, India just days after baby dies in similar attack
Newborn baby is killed by MONKEY after being snatched from his mother's arms indoors in India
Mysterious mass bird deaths in Hillsboro
Nearly two dozen birds were discovered in a field across from Lipman Lighting on Monday.
One of the men who found them says Oregon State Police picked the animals up earlier this week, but when FOX 12 visited the property Thursday, two additional dead birds were found.
There's no answer yet as to what's killing them.
Comment: Local station KGW8 adds:
Dozens of red-winged blackbirds and European starlings were found dead in a field off West Union Road, along with a bald eagle and a red-tailed hawk. There were no obvious signs of death. The birds are being tested by wildlife officials to figure out how they died.
A man who works nearby first spotted the eagle in the field on Monday and checked it out. Then he found the hawk nearby along with many small birds.
It is unusual and concerning for this many birds to die at once and for there to be several species involved, according to Bob Sallinger, conservation director for the Audubon Society of Portland.
Sallinger is not connected to the case, so can't speak to specifics about it. But he did share a general concern.
"The things we do think about are poisons and toxins. In these kinds of situations it can be an intentional situation, it can be something that they got into that was unintentional," Sallinger said.
Seismometer in St. John's shows how intense Thursday's winds were
The waves crashing into the rugged shoreline of Newfoundland and Labrador this week led to waves of a different kind.
The squiggly black lines produced by a Natural Resources Canada seismometer show the seismic activity of a vicious windstorm that whipped across the province on Wednesday and Thursday.
The wind and waves were so strong, the island was shaking.
"What we saw over the past 48 hours was quite a dramatic change in [activity]," said John Cassidy, an earthquake seismologist with Natural Resources Canada.
"It was very noticeable and in our seismic data, our plots, it just jumped off the page. You could just see that shaking."
Comment: The windstorm that struck Newfoundland and Labrador was the "most intense storm" on the planet, according to a meteorologist in Gander. Wild, whipping winds gusting upwards of 130 km/h caused huge waves, delays, cancellations and closures across the province reports CBC.
According to the Weather Network the effects of the incredibly strong low pressure system that moved through Atlantic Canada would cause more than ripples across the Atlantic Ocean this week, causing giant waves to track towards Europe and Africa. See also: Enormous waves wipe away balconies in Tenerife, Canary Islands
© AFP/Getty ImagesA woman has died after a monkey attack in Agra, India, just days after the death of a baby (file picture)
A woman has been killed by a monkey - just days after a 12-day-old baby died nearby in a similar attack.
Authorities confirmed Bhoomi Devi was fatally injured by primates in the Indian city of Agra.
The 58-year-old suffered severe injuries, and medics were unable to save her.
A relative said that she bled to death as a result of the attack, which happened outside her home.
A family member told NDTV : "She had lost so much blood that doctors could do nothing to save her."
The latest tragedy, which happened on Wednesday, happened just five days after the child, called Arush, was snatched from his mum as she breastfed him.
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© Kyiv OperativeFacebook
Kyiv Operative, a news outlet specializing in crime, fires and other emergencies in the Ukrainian capital, published footage showing the aftermath of the incident on its Facebook page.
It was not immediately clear what exactly caused the sinkhole to form. But a similar incident happened in Kiev last Tuesday when a hot-water pipe burst filled streets with streams of steaming water and caused traffic chaos in the city. The road then collapsed right under a car.
It was centred 534 kilometres (331 miles) deep and 283 kilometres east of the capital Suva where residents said they did not notice any shaking.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami threat from the tremor which occurred at 9:25 am (2025 GMT Sunday).
The area is prone to deep undersea earthquakes and was hit with a 7.8-magnitude tremor two months ago.
Source: Agence France-Presse
Due to heavy rain and floods, many areas were still inundated including roads to the city's airport, local daily newspaper Sai Gon Giai Phong (Saigon Liberation) quoted the municipal People's Committee as reporting.
Flash floods and landslides also destroyed 12 houses, injured several people and triggered a breach of a reservoir. According to local online newspaper VnExpress, the municipal authorities told some 90,000 students to stay home from school on Monday.
Comment: View video: Enormous waves wipe away balconies in Tenerife, Canary Islands