The Egyptian Ministry of the Interior posted CCTV video showing the moment when policeman Kameel Fathy Geed manages to catch a five-year-old boy who fell from the window of a third floor in a building in the city of Nile, 200 miles south of Cairo. The child was unharmed.
The government has promised that Venezuelans will be able to use the coins to pay taxes and public services. Maduro has touted the petro as fulfilling the late Hugo Chavez’s dream of upending global capitalism away from the dominance of the US dollar and Wall Street.
Two U. S. national table tennis champions play each other — at the New York Philharmonic. The unique performance uses sounds from an intense match alongside a full symphony orchestra.
Shanghai police released surveillance video showing a burglary attempt in the city that went comically wrong. The video shows two hooded men approach a store before one throws a brick through the window. The second man then throws another brick but as his accomplice attempts to get out of the way, he is struck in the head and drops to the ground. Abandoning the burglary, the would-be thief drags his friend away.
A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake shakes Mexico City, Friday, Feb. 16,2018.
Sailors at U. S. Navy base Guantánamo Bay raised the flag for the national anthem on Friday morning, Feb. 16,2018, then lowered it to half-mast, per a naval instruction, « as a mark of respect honoring the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, » the base said.
Hurricane Maria destroyed many structures in Puerto Rico, including what building officials described as « informal construction, » where building codes or permits were not followed.
A giant wild boar has been caught on camera raiding a dumpster for food in Hong Kong. The huge pig, which has been nicknamed « Pigzilla » and « Hogzilla » on social media, was significantly taller than the refuse collector when standing on its hind legs. The whopping porker, which was filmed on February 6 near a primary school, was surrounded by several piglets. Seeing wild boar in the city is not uncommon in Hong Kong but this specimen is exceptionally large.
Mexican inspectors have found tigers in all sorts of situations: on leashes, in neighbours’ yards and wandering the streets. But the office for environmental protection announced a new twist on Wednesday: someone tried to express-mail a tiger cub. The cub was sedated and packed into a plastic container. Nobody realized it was there until a sniffer dog looking for contraband detected it.
North and South Korea marched under one flag at the Olympics’ opening ceremony. Some South Koreans hope it is a symbol of a peaceful unification. Others fear it is an omen of larger political ambitions of the North.
A home security camera captured the moment a passenger plane crashed in a field near the town of Stepanovskoye, in the Moscow Oblast, on February 11. Seventy one people were on board the plane, including six crew members, when it crashed shortly after departing from Moscow Domodedovo Airport toward Orsk, Siberia, the Ministry of Civil Defense said. No survivors are expected. A list of the passengers and crew was also released by the Ministry of Civil Defense.
Pope Francis is considering giving the Chinese government a say in the Vatican’s ordination of bishops in the country. Not everyone in the Catholic Church is cheering.
Surveillance video shows a large chunk of ice mysteriously falling from the sky in London, narrowly missing a street cleaner.
Guantánamo detention center commander, Rear Adm. Edward B. Cashman, answers questions about the Detainee Art Program during a press conference at the Media Operations Center at Camp Justice in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
A powerful earthquake rattled the eastern Taiwanese city of Hualien late on February 6, causing buildings to collapse. This video from a Hualien hostel shows people running out as the ground shakes and shelves topple.
The magnitude-6.4 quake killed at least eight people and injured more than 250 others as of February 8. Dozens of people remained missing at the time of writing.
Satellite imagery shows how the North Korean authorities have mobilized and trained tens of thousands of people for a military parade ahead of the Olympics.
