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The short clip shows the popular Australian naturalist in a small dinghy on the Great Barrier Reef close to the spot where he died in September 2006. Irwin, 44, who was famed for his daring stunts with dangerous animals, was stabbed hundreds of times by an eight foot-wide stingray as he made a documentary.

“The bear is loose!” Those were President Barack Obama’s words last week as he ditched his motorcade and left the White House on foot. Tourists near the White House never expected to see the president in person on a spring afternoon. One woman squealed with delight. Another suggested that Wednesday’s sighting might be an impostor.

A powerful earthquake centered to the north of the Turkish Aegean island of Gökçeada shook areas around western Turkey at 12:25 p.m on May 24, causing damage and minor injuries. The Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) announced that 266 people were injured due to the panic caused by the earthquake, including one person in critical condition who …

A 16-year-old boy shot a cab driver twice in the head in Scranton, Pa., because he believed the man was trying to rip him off, police said. Aazis Richardson was charged with murder Friday night in the death of Vincent Darbenzio, 47, whose body was found in his cab shortly before 5 a.m. Friday near the entrance to a Scranton …

A naked violinist was arrested in front of the US Courthouse in downtown Portland Friday afternoon after police received many complaints. The man, identified by police as Matthew Thomas Mglej, was arrested for indecent exposure. Authorities said they are not sure if that is his actual last name.

Northern Arizona’s Slide Fire grew to 4,800 acres overnight, and 200 people have been evacuated from Oak Creek Canyon, with another 3,000 on standby. Fire crews have made progress on the fire, building a line between the blaze and Flagstaff subdivisions. But Flagstaff Fire Captain Bill Morse said the containment is still elusive.

A Dallas woman who tried to drown her two young daughters after the girls pleaded for snacks was stopped by her 18-year-old son, who grabbed his drenched sisters and carried them from the apartment, police say. Sonya Ann Gardner, 35, is jailed on a $1 million bond on two counts of attempted capital murder of a child, according to police …

When the late author Ken Kesey and his pals, the Merry Pranksters, took their psychedelic bus ride across America to visit the New York World’s Fair, the nation was mourning President John F Kennedy’s assassination and the Grateful Dead were not yet a band. And, perhaps most importantly, LSD was still legal. For their trip, they rode in a bus …

Well, it’s official. Beyonce and Jay Z decided not to attend Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s wedding in Florence, Italy. Instead, they opted for a beach weekend in New York. But why? Beyonce, 32, and Jay Z, 44, were not in attendance as Kim Kardashian, 33, and Kanye West, 36 professed their undying love to each other on Saturday, May …

PTC Therapeutics Inc. announced that following its request for re-examination, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion regarding the company’s application for a conditional marketing authorization of Translarna (ataluren) for the treatment of nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy (nmDMD) in ambulatory patients aged five years and older.

At least seven people were killed, and seven more were wounded in a string of shootings carried out by a lone gunman on Friday night, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown confirmed at a news conference this morning. The gunman, who investigators believe acted alone, drove a black BMW through the Isla Vista neighborhood, a student enclave located near the …