Pilot survives crash near Powell Wyoming
An 18 year old pilot Andrew Scheffer apparently veered off course and crashed into a forested slope on Big Horn Mountain about 40 miles south of Billings. He hiked in waist high snow to reach aid, was treated for cold and injuries, and transported in critical condition to St. Vincent Healthcare Billings.
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Powell
Wyo
Billings
Andrew Scheffer
Jon Trapp
Carbon County
Battle resumes for Iraqs Shiites in Shiite heartland
Shiite militiamen confront government as Muqtada al Sadr presses clout in Basra and Sadr City. US and Iraqi raids spark detentions while Mahdi Army fighters threaten renewed clashes across southern Iraq amid rocket barrages on the Green Zone.
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Endeavour Lands After 242Hour ISS Mission
The space shuttle Endeavour returned to Kennedy Space Center at 8 39 p m after a 16 day mission that extended 242 hours beyond the schedule. Crew members included Dominic Gorie Gregory Johnson Rick Linnehan Robert Behnken Mike Foreman Takao Doi and Leopold Eyharts with NASA describing the flight as highly successful.
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Palmetto
Dominic Gorie
NASA
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Candrea Thomas
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Gorie
Gregory Johnson
U.S
Rick Linnehan
Robert L. Behnken
Mike Foreman
Takao Doi
Leopold Eyharts
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Lovesick swan to be reunited with paddleboat at lake
Petra the black swan formed a close bond with a paddleboat at a Münster zoo in 2006. After a period apart the boat was returned to the lake and Petra was placed with a white swan but she grew lonely and agitated. She will be taken back to the lake with the paddleboat to reunite.
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Berlin
Petra
Muenster
Zoo
Germany
Zimbabwe’s black market thrives as economy tanking
In Harare, money dealer Lovemore Vambe runs a fringe income from dollars and rand exchanges as Zimbabwe’s inflation soars. Officials peg rates at 30,000 ZWD to $1 while black market cash trades at vastly higher values, sustaining rents and schools amid a Mugabe election race and a collapse of formal banking.
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Zimbabwe
Lovemore Wambe
U.S
Robert Mugabe
Vambe
Wambe
Mugabe
Tony Hawkins
Hawkins
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
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