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A British adventurer has become the youngest woman to ski solo to the South Pole.
Mollie Hughes, 29, started her world record attempt on 13 November and battled through treacherous conditions including snowstorms and temperatures of -45C (-49F).
Ms Hughes, from Edinburgh, set off from Hercules Inlet in Western Antarctica and skied eastwards for 702
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Write comment (97 Comments)The widow of the captain of a Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed in Iran said she had urged her husband not to fly the plane because of security fears in their final conversation.
Katerina Gaponenko told Sky News that she and Volodymyr, who have two young daughters, had expected the flight from Kiev to Tehran and back to be cancelled given the
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Write comment (96 Comments)Thai police are hunting a masked gunman who killed three people, including a two-year-old boy, during a robbery in a shopping centre.
The man wounded four others as he robbed a jewellery shop at the Robinson mall in Lopburi province, around 90 miles (145km) north of Bangkok, on Thursday.
Footage shows the man - wearing a ski mask and carrying a
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Write comment (91 Comments)Western intelligence agencies are now convinced that the Ukrainian International Airlines flight was shot down by a surface-to-air missile, although given that 82 of the 176 onboard were Iranian, the working assumption is that this was an accident, not deliberate.
As is typical now, photographs and video have emerged of the plane in a ball of fire,
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Write comment (92 Comments)Thousands of Australians are protesting against what they say is a lack of government action on climate change, as the country's bushfires continue to rage.
It comes as nearly 250,000 people were urged to leave their homes in Victoria in the face of extreme fire danger, with more than 30 fires active.
The fires have killed at least 27 people since
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