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Disaster
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An Airbus A320 Has Just Crashed In France – 142 On Board
24 Mar 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
Well this day isn’t getting any better – reports from France indicate a plane flying between Spain and Germany has crashed with 142 people on board..
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This Cape Tokai Home Is Completely Gone [Image]
05 Mar 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
Another day, another set of incredible images to tug at the heart strings. This picture of a grieving lady in Tokai really nails home the scale of the destruction.
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More Added: Facebook Fire Shaming Is Getting Out Of Control
04 Mar 2015 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Don’t throw cigarette butts out of your car window, duhhh. And, if you do, make sure no one snaps a photo of your license plate as some amateur detectives are hot on your heels.
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Now People Are Robbing Houses Vacated Because Of Fire
04 Mar 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
Yes, this is happening. Reports are circulating that some heartless souls are now looting the houses of those forced to evacuate.
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This Fire Photo From Yesterday Will Leave You Speechless
04 Mar 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
Sometimes there is beauty even in absolute destruction and this picture of the fire raging in Muizenberg is an eerie reminder of that.
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Wednesday Morning Spice
04 Mar 2015 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Noordhoek declared disaster zone. ISIS threaten pope. Here is the average penis size. Apple beats Samsung in smartphone sales. Concourt asked to set aside Shuttleworth ruling. Passenger planes dodged Russian bombers. Snowden might return to US.
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This Is What They Reckon Started The Cape Town Fires
03 Mar 2015 by Kiernan / 8 Comments
Some of the latest news emerging from the Cape peninsula fires will get your blood boiling, especially when you find out what they think might have caused the blaze.
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Here’s Obama’s Ebola Announcement He Made On Saturday [Video]
20 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
US president Barack Obama has taken some time to address the US citizens regarding the Ebola outbreak. Here his message here…
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You Know Those Owls They’ve Got To Fight Rats In Johannesburg? People Are Chopping Off The Owls Heads And Taking Out Their Eyes
14 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
It seemed like a logical idea, because barn owls love to eat rats. And what would make barn owls really happy? A rat infestation!
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They’ve Floated Costa Concordia – Check It Out
15 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The salvage operation for the shipwrecked Costa Concordia is underway as the cruise-liner finally floats for first time in two years.
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A US Military Harrier Jet Crashed Into Civilian Homes And Exploded [Images]
05 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Imagine the scene: you have just pulled out of your driveway, you look up to check your hair in the rear-view mirror and BOOM! Your house is in flames, and had you been there for a minute longer you would probably be in flames too. Scary… this is what happened in Imperial.
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Horror As Hot Air Balloon Catches Fire – Multiple Deaths As Occupants Jump [Video]
12 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is one of those situations that make you NEVER want to try something ‘exciting or different’ with your weekend. Most of us associate hot-air ballooning as a relatively safe experience, right? Apparently the only thing that can make this your worst nightmare come true, is if the hot air balloon hits a power line. […]
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TIME Magazine’s Top 10 Photos Of 2013 [GALLERY]
04 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s been one helluva hectic year. There was typhoon Haiyan, the crisis in Syria, the Boston bombings, wild Australian bushfires and worldwide protests.
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2014 World Cup Stadium Collapses
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
There are some serious concerns that Brazil’s world cup stadia will just simply not be completed in time for the football festivities in June next year. And now, progress has been slowed significantly after a crane crashed on top of a stadium in Sao Paolo yesterday, killing two people.
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Watch: Erupting Volcano Creates Entirely New Island [VIDEO]
21 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
One day it’s just open sea – the next day there’s an island. Filmed just off the coast of Japan, an erupting volcano has just formed an entirely new island that is about 650 meters across.
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Sinkhole Swallows Man’s House In Florida, Takes His Boat Too
15 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Florida seems a nice enough place to live. But there is always that niggling worry that there’s something wrong with Florida. Oh yes, that’s it – you’re permanently at risk of losing everything you own down a massive gaping hole in the earth.
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Incredible Footage Captures Typhoon Haiyan [VIDEO]
13 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With a maximum sustained wind speed estimated at 315kph, Typhoon Haiyan was probably the strongest tropical typhoon to make landfall in recorded history, meteorologists say.
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This Perfect Animation Shows What Went Wrong With That Failed San Francisco 777 Landing [VIDEO]
15 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crash landed last weekend has horrific images but no video to show what in fact went wrong. An animated video by Jack Suchocki, an airline pilot and forensic animator, has since been released showing a rendering of the accident that took place last Saturday. According to YouTube, “All times, speeds, distances and scaling […]
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Air Show Goes Horribly Wrong As Vintage Plane Crashes Into Hanger [VIDEO]
06 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
On Sunday the crowd at Cuatro Vientos airfield were left flabbergasted when a jet blew up after it crashed into a hanger. The estimated 3,000 people who attended the air show in Madrid were evacuated from the grounds when this aerial acrobatics came to an abrupt halt.
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Astronaut Captures Amazing Images Of Australian Bush Fires
09 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Australian fire services have issued what they’ve called “catastrophic” warnings in parts of that country as temperatures are expected to breach 45C in the days to come.
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Horror Train Crash In Mpumalanga, Bodies Strewn Over 200m
13 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Rescue workers at the scene of a horrific accident involving a train and a truck in Mpumalanga are having a hard time determining the extent of the damages. Officials say that identifying bodies is proving difficult as many have been torn up by the impact, with some being thrown as far as 200m.
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28 Dead After Bus Crash In Swiss Tunnel [GALLERY]
14 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hectique. This is not the way you want to end your school skiing trip. A bus full of kids, travelling through a Swiss tunnel, hit a kerb and crashed face first into a wall inside the tunnel. A full gallery of the disaster is inside.
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Fresh Oil Leaks From Damaged BP Well Spotted In Gulf Of Mexico
14 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
New oil leakage has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico, near the BP well that burst 15 months ago; the oil currently covers an area about seven kilometres long and 50 metres wide. It’s not clear if the oil is coming from the reservoir itself, or if’s been trapped in last year’s damaged rigging.
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Skateboard Tour Of Post-Earthquake Christchurch [VIDEO]
07 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A group of skaters armed with handheld cameras take a run through Christchurch in the aftermath of the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in February. As earthquake-stricken citizens go, they seem pretty optimistic! And the video is very cool-looking too. Take a look.
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BP To Resume Drilling In The Gulf of Mexico
05 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hoo. BP’s planning on restarting deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico on 10 wells this summer; U.S. regulators seem to be giving it the go-ahead in exchange for tougher safety rules. In unrelated news, President Obama promised last week to cut U.S. oil imports by 33%
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Nature, You Are Horrific: Spiders Take Over Trees In Wake Of Pakistan Floods
31 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Human displacement aside, the floods in Pakistan have caused massive changes in the local ecology. With more than a fifith of Pakistan submerged, millions of spiders have escaped the rising waterline by moving into trees – quickly covering riverside treelines in cocoons of spiderweb. It’s creepy-looking.
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Massive Tsunami Strikes North-Eastern Japan [VIDEO]
11 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A magnitude 8.9 earthquake off the coast of Japan has triggered an immensely destructive tsunami at 14h46 local time. Footage has been shown of cars, ships and buildings being swept away in Onahama city. Officials said a wave as high as 6m could strike the coast.
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