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To play this content please enable JavaScript or try a different browser.Video captions, Papua New Guinea: Landslides feared to kill manyArticle informationauthor, Marc Crusinorole, BBC News3 hours agoRescuers are rushing to villages where hundreds are believed to have been killed after a massive landslide hit Papua New Guinea’s isolated Enga province.Humanitarian aid group CARE Australia said an emergency response team made up of medical and military personnel had arrived at the scene of the isolated landslide.But the rugged terrain and damage to major roads are complicating rescue efforts, with the highway cut off and the site only accessible by helicopter,…

Hours later, NBC Sports Philadelphia reported that Harper was still confused by his sudden exit.DENVER — Three hours later, Bryce Harper was still confused about what happened and why it happened … and in no way believed it had actually happened.Harper was removed from the game after striking out three pitches in the top of the first inning at Coors Field on Friday night. The second pitch that left-hander Ty Blatche threw to Harper was low and inside, but home plate umpire Brian Walsh called it a strike. Harper protested the strike, called time and said something to Walsh. Harper…

ARLINGTON — Pitcher Sam Garcia allowed just three hits and no runs over eight scoreless innings to lead second-seeded Oklahoma State to a 4-0 victory over 10th-seeded Texas Tech on Friday night and advance to a matchup with UCF in the semifinals of the Big 12 Tournament.The winner of the game between Oklahoma State (38-17) and No. 8 seed UCF will face top-seeded Oklahoma State in Saturday’s final. UCF beat the Cowboys 7-6 on Thursday in a round of 10 game.Garcia retired 12 straight batters at one point after giving up a two-out single to Austin Green in the bottom…

Politics by Victor Nava Published May 25, 2024 12:23 AM ET President Biden is reportedly planning to speak “from the White House” about former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial as the jury delivers its verdict. According to Politico, the 81-year-old president’s messaging will be tailored depending on the outcome of the trial, but in any scenario, he plans to stress that the US justice system works and that Americans should respect the court process. Biden is expected to make remarks whether the 77-year-old former president is found guilty or not guilty, or whether jurors are unable to agree on…

May marks the climax of the college track and field season, and that could be the case for Caleb Dean and Texas Tech University’s men’s relay teams.Dean set school and facility records in the 400-meter hurdles on Friday, finishing first and second with teammate Oscar Edlund at the NCAA West Regional in Fayetteville, Ark. In the same quarterfinal, Dean ran 48.05 seconds, the ninth-fastest time in school history, while Edlund ran 48.70 seconds.Dean broke the John McDonnell Field record of 48.47, set in 2009 by Washington State University’s Jeshua Anderson.Next up, they’ll head to Hayward Field for the NCAA Outdoor…

This new corvette could be a test platform for new hull designs and other specific subsystems that naval architects might incorporate into future ship designs. Or it could be the lead ship for an entire class. We won’t know unless and until Chinese shipyards start building squared-off ships.Corvette teeth A look at the lead ship of the new class, the corvette, gives a clear picture of how the Chinese Navy will handle such vessels. Corvettes are the smallest ocean-going warships. They lack the heavy armament and durability of larger frigates, destroyers, and cruisers. But this is not a drawback. Corvettes…

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province announces first $6.3 billion budget ahead of federal government PESHAWAR: Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Friday announced its first-ever federal budget of 1.754 trillion rupees ($6.3 billion), with a senior provincial government official justifying the move on the grounds of the province’s autonomy. The KP government is led by former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, whose Islamabad administration was ousted from power in April 2022 following a parliamentary vote of no-confidence. Since then, the PTI leadership has struggled for political survival, with many of its members, including Khan, serving months in…

The wall in the police station was covered in sheets of paper, one for every building in the sprawling Beijing apartment complex. Each sheet was further broken down by unit, with names, phone numbers and other information on the residents.Perhaps the most important detail, though, was how each unit was color-coded. Green meant trustworthy. Yellow, needing attention. Orange required “strict control.”A police officer inspected the wall. Then he leaned forward to mark a third-floor apartment in yellow. The residents in that unit changed often, and therefore were “high risk,” his note said. He would follow up on them later.“I’ve built…

With the Conservative British Prime Minister setting a date for a long-awaited vote in early summer and the United States holding a crucial presidential election in the coming months, what happened in 2016 when Britons voted to leave the European Union and Americans elected Donald J. Trump is now happening again.Political prognosticators might be tempted to study the results of the July 4th UK general election to predict the outcome of the November 5th US election. After all, Britain’s shock decision to leave the EU in 2016 came to be seen as a harbinger of Trump’s surprise victory later that…

Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control euthanized about 40 percent of Indiana’s animals last year, but took in just 8 percent of the state’s animals, according to animal welfare organizations.Best Friends Animal Society, which has a goal of making all U.S. animal shelters zero-kill facilities by 2025, told the Fort Wayne City Council that more than 3,000 animals were euthanized by animal control in 2023. Stacey Rogers, central regional director for Best Friends, said the society addressed the city council to raise awareness in the community that the shelter stands out from other shelters in Indiana.”When our data team looked…