Minister: 3 bodies found with wreckage of missing U.S. helicopter in Nepal
Updated 0901 GMT (1601 HKT) May 15, 2015
Three bodies have been found with the wreckage of what's thought to be a missing U.S. Marine helicopter, Nepal's Defense Secretary Ishwori Paudyal said Friday.
The helicopter wreckage was found in a burned condition, Paudyal told CNN.
The news came only hours after a local army official said the wreckage of the helicopter -- missing since Tuesday with six U.S. marines and two Nepali service members on board -- had been found on the steep slopes of a mountain east of Kathmandu.
The American chopper was spotted in the Gorthali area, at an altitude of 11,200 feet, according to Brig. Gen. Binoj Basnet.
Vast Antarctic ice shelf a few years from disintegration, says Nasa
Remnant of Larsen B Ice Shelf, about half the size of Rhode Island, is expected to break apart completely around the year 2020, adding to sea level rises
The last intact section of one of Antarctica’s mammoth ice shelves is weakening fast and will likely disintegrate completely in the next few years, contributing further to rising sea levels, according to a Nasa study released on Thursday.
The research focused on a remnant of the so-called Larsen B Ice Shelf, which has existed for at least 10,000 years but partially collapsed in 2002. What is left covers about 625 square miles (1,600 square kilometres), about half the size of Rhode Island.
Antarctica has dozens of ice shelves - massive, glacier-fed floating platforms of ice that hang over the sea at the edge of the continent’s coast line. The largest is roughly the size of France.
Larsen B is located in the Antarctic Peninsula, which extends toward the southern tip of South America and is one of two principal areas of the continent where scientists have documented the thinning of such ice formations.Russia Aids epidemic: 2 million to be infected with HIV in five years, warns expert
Burundi coup chief Niyombare says putsch plotters surrender
Latest update : 2015-05-15
The leader of Burundi's coup on Friday said that top members of his movement were surrendering after their attempt to overthrow President Pierre Nkurunziza failed.
"We have decided to surrender," General Godefroid Niyombare told the AFP news agency, adding that troops loyal to the president were approaching him. "I hope they won't kill us," he was quoted as saying.
A presidential spokesman said three generals involved in the coup plot had been arrested, but that General Niyombare was "still on the run".
Hours earlier, Niyombare’s deputy admitted the attempt to oust Nkurunziza had been thwarted, after a day of fierce fighting between rival army factions.
Rohingya Muslims cry for help as horror refugee limbo continues
May 15, 2015 - 4:05PMLindsay Murdoch
South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media
Bangkok: "Please help us," came the cry from a people smuggler's boat carrying hundreds of frail and distressed Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar.
"Please give me water."
Ten people had died during a horror two-month voyage across the Bay of Bengal, they said, the bodies thrown into the sea.
Many on board the converted fishing trawler carrying men, women, children and babies, wept on Thursday as a boat carrying journalists including from the New York Times, came alongside.
But several hours after the Rohingyas were discovered adrift in the Andaman Sea 17 kilometres off a southern Thai island their boat turned away from Thailand, the fate of those on board now unknown in a spiralling humanitarian crisis in south-east Asian waters.
Antiquities at risk: Islamic State surrounds ancient ruins of Palmyra (+video)
The central Syrian town holds strategic importance for the government in Damascus and is home to an important military airbase. The offensive began Monday and pits Islamic State against regime forces and local militia.
ISTANBUL — A lightning Islamic State offensive in the central Syrian Desert has put the jihadist group at the gates of the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO world heritage site, fanning fears for the fate of its ruins.
It is also raising the prospect of a drawn-out battle in this strategic region, home to one of Syria’s largest weapons depots, a military airbase, and valuable gas fields that have changed hands more than once during the war.
Palmyra, also known as Tadmor, is one of the most impressive relics of the ancient world, settled as early as the third millennium BC. Marc Antony and the early Romans found it to be an elusive prize, but historians believe it was integrated into the Syrian Province by the reign of Nero in the first century AD.
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