…ice said. The authorities had hailed the arrest as the most important in years. Known as El Chapo” or “Shorty”, Joaquin Guzman has been in hiding ever since he escaped from prison in 2001. The Sinaloa cartel controls much of the flow of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine to the United States. Within hours of the high-profile arrest, doubts had started to be cast on the offici…
wept back – as soon as possible after leaving his capsule. But the video showed him tumbling over and over. Eventually, however, the Austrian was able to use his great experience, from more than 2,500 career dives, to correct his fall and get into a stable configuration. Even before this drama, it was thought the mission might have to be called off. As he went through last-minute checks insi…
Austrian skydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner is more than halfway toward his goal of setting a world record for the highest free-fall jump. Felix Baumgartner, 42, is aiming for nearly 23 miles this summer. The record is 19.5 miles. The adventurer lifted off Thursday for a test jump from Roswell, New Mexico, aboard a 100-foot helium balloon. He rode inside a pressurized capsule to 71,581 feet &#…
t, 10 minutes later. The adventurer – famous for jumping off skyscrapers – is under no illusions about the dangers he faces. Where Felix Baumgartner is going, the air pressure is less than 2% of what it is at sea level, and it is impossible to breathe without an oxygen supply. Others who have tried to break the existing records for the highest, fastest and longest freefalls have lost t…
New footage taken from cameras attached to Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner’s body has been released to internet and shows the moment daredevil loses control. National Geographic and the BBC documented Felix Baumgartner’s 24 mile plunge to Earth using more than 20 cameras. The previously unseen footage is being crafted into a documentary about the 43-year-old stuntman, titled Space…
ims Baumgartner intends to lodge with the FAI. The adventurer – perhaps best known for leaping off skyscrapers – first discussed the possibility of beating Joe Kittinger’s records in 2005. Since then, he has had to battle technical and budgetary challenges to make it happen. What he was proposing was extremely dangerous, even for a man used to those skyscraper stunts. At an altit…
ot as far as climbing into his capsule before the mission was postponed. The latest weather intelligence had suggested there would be a good window to get airborne, but as the balloon filled, a sudden 25-mph (40 km/h) gust twisted the envelope and knocked it flat against the ground. That could have damaged the thin skin of the balloon and so flight controllers felt they had no option but to abort….
…wirelessly transmitted data about his heartbeat, respiration, skin temperature and other vital signs. “It’s a major coup for Equivital, which, despite its small size – currently only 25 employees – provides the US Army with its human body monitoring system,” the company said. The Red Bull Stratos scientists said the stunt had provided invaluable data for the developme…
mmense risks involved in what Felix Baumgartner is trying to do. Felix Baumgartner has lifted off on his mission to break a series of freefall records Where he is going, the air pressure is less than 2% of what it is at sea level, and it is impossible to breathe without an oxygen supply. Others who have tried to break the existing records for the highest, fastest and longest freefalls have lost t…
…at an embryo passed through all the stages of its species’ evolution as it developed. Scientists had expected the eggs to show the link between dinosaurs and birds – but they didn’t. 2. George Hedley Stainforth On 29 September 1931, RAF pilot George Hedley Stainforth became the first man in the world to exceed 400 mph (643 km). This broke the record set by his team earlier that y…
Unsound Festival 2011, an original week-long avant-garde music event, starts on October 9 in Kraków, Poland. Unsound Festival started in 2003 as an underground event of advanced music, and its importance has grown over the years. The annual event is produced by Fundacja Tone, a not-for-profit organization. Unsound has created smaller events in Prague, Warsaw, Bratslava, Kiev, and Minsk, th…
…how did it begin? The Macy’s Parade started in 1924 on Christmas Day. Macy’s employees themselves dressed as clowns, cowboys and all sorts of costumes to draw attention to the store. Over 250,000 people attended that parade, and that’s how it became an annual event in Manhattan. Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 1930 in NYC About the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in N…
Michelle Knight will be “adopted” by Gina DeJesus’ family and they will look after her as their daughter after Michelle rejected a meeting with her own mother, a friend of Felix and Nancy DeJesus has revealed. Lupe Collins, a neighbor who helped the DeJesus family look for Gina since she disappeared in 2004, said Nancy DeJesus told her in a phone call on Thursday that she and her husband are tryi…
…adulterous husband. San Fernando residents are now demanding the mayor and his lover, Maribel De La Torre, to resign. Mario Hernandez, San Fernando, Maribel De La Torre San Fernando, a city of just 25,000, has already been plagued by sex scandals among its leaders. The police chief is being sued by a cadet who claims they had sex in a squad car, a police dispatcher was caught exposing himself i…
…ast two of the women held captive in Ariel Castro’s house in Cleveland for about a decade were raped by their captors Meanwhile, hundreds of people gathered around the DeJesus family home, cheering as 23-year-old Gina DeJesus arrived. Gina DeJesus, wearing a bright yellow hooded shirt, was escorted into her home by a woman with her arm around her. In a news conference outside the house, members of…
…year before the singer’s first child, Prince Michael, was born. Now Mark Lester, who has not been allowed to see Prince Michael, 16, Paris, 15, and Blanket, 11, since Michael Jackson’s death in June 2009, has sent them a message: “I’m here, come and visit England, we’ll look after you.” Speaking exclusively to the Sunday People, Mark Lester said: “After Michael asked me to donate sperm for him I…
…ed the family over the years along with the police and FBI for all their hard work. Nancy Ruiz appealed to the public to be on the look-out for another missing girl Ashley Summers, who was snatched in 2007 from the same Cleveland neighborhood when she was 14. She said: “There are not enough words to say or express for the joy we feel for the return of our family member Gina. “We are asking for yo…
Longest-held Cleveland kidnap victim Michelle Knight suffered such severe beatings while locked inside the house of horrors that she will require facial reconstruction surgery, her family said. Michelle Knight, 32, was released from hospital on Friday, five days after she and two other victims Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23, along with Amanda’s six-year-old daughter were rescued fol…
Ariel Castro’s brothers, Onil and Pedro, spoke of how they had no idea why they were being arrested for keeping three girls in captivity in Cleveland for nearly a decade. Onil and Pedro Castro also revealed that they saw Jocelyn, the daughter that Ariel fathered with Amanda Berry during her captivity, saying that on two different occasions they saw Ariel bring the young girl to fast food restaura…
At least sixty people have been crushed to death and more than 200 injured during New Year festivities in Ivory Coast’s main city Abidjan, officials say. The incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday near a stadium in the central Plateau area of the city where a fireworks display was held. The cause of the stampede is not yet clear. It occurred as people were heading home after the ev…
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…urned onto Central Park South. The parade then snaked down Sixth Avenue and headed from 59th Street down to 34th Street, making its final stop at Macy’s Herald Square. The helium balloons joined 28 floats, 1,600 cheerleaders and dancers, 900 clowns, 11 marching bands and, of course, Santa Claus. There was also an appearance by Miss USA winner, Olivia Culpo, who grinned as she waved at the sc…
…ar De La Hoya in 1997, a loss by unanimous decision. Steve Tannenbaum said he was going to fight two years ago in Denmark until his opponent pulled out and that they were looking at a possible bout in 2013. “We were talking comeback even though he is 50,” he said. “I felt he was capable of it.” Hector Camacho was born in Bayamon, one of the cities that make up the San Juan metropolitan area. He w…
…fought professionally for three decades, from his humble debut against David Brown at New York’s Felt Forum in 1980 to an equally forgettable swansong against Sal Duran in Kissimmee, Florida, in 2010. In between, he fought some of the biggest stars spanning two eras, including Sugar Ray Leonard, Felix Trinidad, Oscar De La Hoya and Roberto Duran. “This is something I’ve done all my lif…
…nd fellow boxers had gathered in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Tuesday to say goodbye to the slain former world champion fighter, known for his flamboyance in and out of the ring. The brawl broke out after 28-year-old Cynthia Castillo, dressed in a pink T-shirt emblazoned with Hector Camacho’s face, leaned down to kiss his body in the open casket. Cynthia Castillo then walked into an area reserve…
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