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An aerial view of a neighbourhood flooded by the Acre river which continues to rise from weeks of heavy rainfall in the region including northern Bolivia and eastern Peru, in Rio Branco, Acre state March 13, 2014.  REUTERS/Odair Leal

Sydney Flash Floods Claim 1 Life

The flash flood that hit Sydney on Monday afternoon has killed a man while two others were rushed to the hospital after being struck by lightning.

MH370 Search Update: Evidence from Chinese Satellite and French Satellite Counted as ‘Credible Leads’ Raising Hope But Poor Weather Conditions Obstructs Search Efforts

Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 remains a mystery for the world. International search and rescue operation continues to delve into the search zone of MH370 to locate the missing Boeing 777. The plane vanished on March 8, 2014 and even after 15 days of search efforts it continues to be missing. The latest update is that a French satellite has spotted some floating objects in the southern areas of Indian Ocean which are said to be 'potential objects' of the MH370 flight.

UFO Sigthing: Multi-Coloured UFO Over Queensland, Australia Captured in Video [WATCH]

Jack Purcell, a Chevron Island resident, noticed a multi-coloured UFO floating over the city of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia last Thursday night, March 13. The witness captured a video footage of the UFO sighting experience and shared it on YouTube for others to see the colourful UFO looking like an alien spacecraft moving across the sky.
A mounted replica skeleton of the new oviraptorosaurian dinosaur species Anzu wyliei on display in the Dinosaurs in Their Time exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh

New Dinosaur Discovery: Scientists Call Dinosaur "Chicken from Hell"

New interesting dinosaur discovery is making its way through headlines. Scientists discovered a new dinosaur with the scientific name "Anzu Wyliei," nicknamed "Chicken from Hell" because of its bird-like appearance, which had lived in western North America during the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago.

MH370 Search Update: Where is Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane? ‘Sightings Over Maldives’ Reports Denied; Taiwanese Student Claims to Have Spotted Boeing 777

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 search has entered day 12, and it still continues to puzzle experts. Now more than 26 countries are scouring the oceans and more than 3 million Internet users are rummaging satellite images on a map service. Recent update denies sightings of missing Boeing 777 in Maldives as declared by the Malaysian government. Meanwhile, a new report claims that a student from Taiwan has spotted the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 while searching through satellite images.

Greenland's Ice Sheet Unstable and Rapidly Melting as Rise in World Sea Levels Accelerate

Greenland's ice sheet is rapidly melting and no longer stable. According to a new study, the rise in sea levels will begin to accelerate because of Greenland's thinning ice sheet. Scientists have already known that Greenland's ice sheet has been melting for decades. However, this was the first time that they've discovered that the melting is also happening in the northern region of the world's second biggest ice sheet. The findings revealed that the ice loss in Greenland's nor...

New Zealand Moas' Rapid Extinction Caused by Humans, Not Environmental Change

New Zealand's moas were flightless birds that ruled over the country until the first human settlement arrived. The biggest of the moas had a height of 12 feet with an outstretched neck. The entire moa population composed of nine species had disappeared shortly after the arrival of the first humans in New Zealand in the thirteenth century.

UFO Sightings: Large Cigar-Shaped UFO Spotted Over Korosten, Ukraine

A large cigar-shaped UFO was spotted over the city of Korosten in Ukraine. The captured video on March 6 has surfaced on the Internet. The video got published on March 7, in the YouTube channel O7TV showing the UFO sighting of a large, elongated object gliding in the sky.
A reconstruction of the Daohugou fauna in northeastern China during the Jurassic Period, featuring feathered dinosaurs, pterosaurs, early mammals and amphibians is pictured in this handout artist's illustration obtained by Reuters March 6, 2014.  A s

Prehistoric Ice Age Fossils Unearthed in Los Angeles Subway

The skull of an ocean lion believed to be two million years old as well as fossils of saber-tooth cats has been unearthed by an exploratory excavation team that's part of preparations for constructing Los Angeles' new subway extension.

2014 Comet Jacques: SONEAR Team in Brazil Spots New Comet C/2014 E2, Closest Approach to the Sun to Occur on June 29

The Brazilian astronomers have announced their discovery of a new and very bright comet called C/2014 E2 (Jacques) with the use of the SONEAR (Southern Observatory for Near Earth Asteroids Research) close to Oliveira, Brazil. On Thursday, March 13, Cristovao Jacques, E. Pimentel and J. Barros detected their second comet through the CCD images captured with a a 0.45-meter (17.7-inch) wide-field reflector at the SONEAR observatory.

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