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Bermuda Triangle plane mystery ’solved’
Two of the so-called Bermuda Triangle’s most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved.
Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the decades in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary points in Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico.
But journalist Tom Mangold’s new examination for the BBC [...]
Hundreds saved from doomed ferry
A rescue operation is under way in the Philippines after a ferry sank with more than 960 people on board.
Coastguards say 931 people have now been rescued from the SuperFerry 9 but nine people have died and more than 30 are still unaccounted for.
The passenger ferry was sailing off the southern Zamboanga peninsula when it [...]
Saudi prince injured by militant
A wanted militant blew himself up in the office of a Saudi prince responsible for security, state news agency SPA has reported.
The man had said he wanted to personally tell Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in his Jeddah Interior Ministry office that he would give himself up.
The prince, who was meeting well-wishers for the holy month [...]
Missing US girl found 18 years on
A US woman found after being abducted as a girl in 1991 gave birth to two children fathered by her alleged kidnapper - the first when she was 14.
Jaycee Lee Dugard and her daughters, 11 and 15, were kept in a “hidden backyard within a backyard”, police say.
Alleged kidnapper Phillip Garrido, 58, and his wife [...]
