Avalanche engulfing Everest base camp caught on video
Updated 0933 GMT (1633 HKT) April 27, 2015
A mammoth wave of snow darkens the sky over Everest base camp. Appearing like a white mushroom cloud roaring over the climbers, they scurry as their tents flap like feathers in the wind. Then panic hits.
"Whoa! Whoa!" Screams and expletives are heard.
The few people in the video scatter and dive into a tent as the deluge of snow falls over them. Cursing and breathing heavily, they wait until the pounding is over.
After a while, they scream to each other, "Are you all right?"
"Are you ok?!?"
The camera jostles back and forth as German climber Jost Kobusch heaves to catch his breath.
When they finally emerge from their avalanche ordeal, their faces are scarlet and their bodies crusted in snow. They trudge away, completely dazed and shocked.
At home with the world's last male northern white rhinoceros
With rhino numbers collapsed due to poaching for their horns, a lot rides on one pampered animal in the Kenyan savannah doing his best to further the species
Mohamed Doyo seems to have a dream job. Every evening, he patrols the Kenyan savannah, glimpsing lions chasing down darting Thomson’s gazelles, hearing the calls of red-chested cuckoos and, when there is a full moon, seeing the majestic, snow-capped peaks of Mount Kenya in the distance.
But Doyo can scarcely stop to admire the extraordinary views because he and a large squad of rangers perform an extraordinary job: they must keep poachers away from one of the rarest species on earth, including the star attraction at the 135 sq mile conservancy, Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhino.
“This responsibility weighs so heavily on our shoulders,” says Doyo. “It is sad what human greed has done and now we must keep watch every minute because it would be unimaginable if the poachers succeeded in killing these last few animals.”
Isis crisis: Propaganda photo shows sleeping newborn baby lying by a gun, hand grenade and birth certificate
Al-Raqqawi captioned the photo with the warning: “This child will be risk to you not just to us [sic]”, suggesting it is an attempt by the extremists to showcase their attempts to cultivate ever-younger members in their ranks.
Late last year, the group used its official media outlets to circulate videos and images claiming to reveal like in the "School of Jihad", where per-pubescent children 10 are trained to use AK47 rifles and are acclimatised to the horrors of war.
Hip-hop self-helpers of Senegal
One of Senegal’s strongest youth movements, YEAM, has come out of the country’s music scene. It’s pro-democracy and anti-violence, and it is influencing the whole of the region.
by Jacques Denis
Meetings of the Y’en a Marre (we’ve had enough) movement or YEAM start with a ritual in which everyone is invited to pray and sing the national anthem. I went to a crowded meeting in a white tent at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar in February, which discussed the demonstrations that have rocked this huge campus since the death of student Abdou Bassirou Faye during clashes with the police in August last year. Students are demanding payment of their grants and improved study conditions, and there have been campfire protests, marches, acts of provocation and repression, with much violence. “We must be able to change our methods,” said Babacar Mbaye Diop, in his 30s, who teaches philosophy. He took part in the student movements of the last decade and spoke at the tent meeting. Before the speakers took questions, five rappers in the hip-hop group Campus 2H held the stage: “We’re going to talk about the situation, but in our own way...” Their T-shirts had the YEAM logo.Israel indicts three soldiers for looting
The Israeli soldiers are accused of taking money during last year's incursion into Gaza.
The Israeli military announced Sunday it indicted three soldiers for allegedly taking money from a building in Gaza during last year's war against Hamas militants.
The military said that two soldiers were indicted on suspicion they took the equivalent of $605 and another is accused of helping them.
A military police investigation was opened after the soldiers' commander reported them, it said. The military said it repeatedly tried to find the owner of the building but attempts were unsuccessful.
Investigations into more than 120 soldiers have been opened over their conduct during the fighting, the military said. The three soldiers who were indicted last week are the first to face charges so far, it said.US vets come to Vietnam to confront past, and find a home
By MIKE IVES2 hours ago
When Richard Parker left Vietnam in 1970, he planned to leave his memories of napalm attacks firmly in the past. Instead, as time marched on, they haunted him.
When Richard Parker left Vietnam in 1970, he planned to leave his memories of napalm attacks firmly in the past. Instead, as time marched on, they haunted him.
"We were the bad guys," Parker, now 65, said of the American war effort in Vietnam. "I had some ghosts I had to face down."
In 2011, Parker flew from Illinois to Danang, a central Vietnamese city where he had worked for 22 months as a builder in the Navy. First he visited nearby places he still remembered, including a mountain pass where he had seen shooting.
On the same trip, a Vietnamese man who once worked for the Marines introduced Parker to some American veterans who lived in Danang full time. Parker enjoyed meeting them and seeing the country in a new light — so much so that he moved to Danang a few months later.
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