Lure of modern tools is bringing uncontacted tribes of Peru into the open
MH17 crash caused by 'objects penetrating aircraft from outside'
Preliminary report into 17 July Malaysia Airlines crash that killed 298 people says it was not caused by a technical fault or crew's actions
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 broke up in mid-air as a result of structural damage caused by "a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside", according to the Dutch investigators' preliminary report.
The investigators' report into the downing of the plane over easternUkraine does not apportion blame or say a missile was fired. But the Dutch Safety Board says: "There are no indications that the MH17 crash was caused by a technical fault or by actions of the crew."
The Boeing 777 was blown up in mid-air on 17 July over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and crew on board.
The black boxes were retrieved intact, with the flight recorders showing a completely normal flight before impact.
Gateway to Hell: The Threat of Ebola Grows Worse
With Ebola spreading rapidly in Nigeria and other parts of West Africa, international organizations fear the number of infections could exceed 20,000. Experts are calling for the industrialized world to do more to help stop the virus.
Kalashnikovs cost as little as $100 in Port Harcourt, says Helmut Lux, an orthopedist and trauma surgeon from the city of Neckarsulm, Germany. The machine gun is said to be the favorite weapon of gangs in the Nigerian city. And they are used in street fights almost every day. "If 100 people start firing at each other," Lux says, "around 10 die and five wind up on the operating table."
Lux conducted operations day and night until overuse resulted in an inflamed tendon in his hand. "Without us, the people would have died like flies," he says. In theory, Port Harcourt does have a health care system, but it's not something that residents can afford.
Ernest Hemingway's Cuba logs could be source for deep-sea fish data
September 9, 2014 - 10:50AMMichael Weissenstein
Cojimar, Cuba: A dozen tiny, ageing fishing boats bobbed in the wake of the massive, gleaming white sport-fishing yacht taking Ernest Hemingway's grandsons to the village that inspired the Nobel laureate's greatest work.
Fishermen waved to the Hemingways and hundreds waited on shore Monday to greet the descendants of a man who fished from Cojimar for decades, hauling in marlin, sharks and tuna from the warm waters off the Cuban coast.
"He was a fisherman," grandson Patrick Hemingway said, looking at the men gathered to greet him. "He considered them his brothers."
9 September 2014 Last updated at 02:09
Greenhouse gas levels rising at fastest rate since 1984
A surge in atmospheric CO2 saw levels of greenhouse gases reach record levels in 2013, according to new figures.
Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere between 2012 and 2013 grew at their fastest rate since 1984.
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says that it highlights the need for a global climate treaty.
But the UK's energy secretary Ed Davey said that any such agreement might not contain legally binding emissions cuts, as has been previously envisaged.
The WMO's annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin doesn't measure emissions from power station smokestacks but instead records how much of the warming gases remain in the atmosphere after the complex interactions that take place between the air, the land and the oceans.
Shine On, Harvest Supermoon: How to See It in the Sky or Online
S ay farewell to summer — and to this year's series of "supermoons" — by looking for Monday night's bigger-than-usual full moon in the sky, or on a display screen near you.
This is considered a supermoon because the full phase occurs at 9:38 p.m. ET, not long after the moon passes at the closest point in its orbit around Earth. That makes it several percentage points bigger and brighter than the average full moon. A similar situation was in effect for the full moons of July and August. In fact, last month's supermoon was the most super of the year's full moons.
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