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Nepali guide rescues climber from Everest death zone

A Nepali guide abandoned his client’s Everest summit bid to rescue a Malaysian climber in a deadly mountaineering season that has seen at least twelve deaths. Gelje Sherpa was guiding a Chinese client to the 8,849-meter (29,032-feet)…

Dubai police arrest 8 Israelis over compatriot’s death

Dubai Police arrested eight Israelis over an assault that led to the death of a fellow compatriot, local police reported. According to police report the 8 Israelis assaulted a 33-year-old man of the same nationality, Ghassan Shamsyeh, in…

Iranian embassy siege commando dies

A former UK Special Air Service soldier who took part in the 1980 storming of the Iranian embassy in London has died. Mel Parry, who served nearly 20 years in the SAS, was one of a team of 32 commandos who rescued 26 people from the…

9 migrants found dead in Tunisia near Algerian border

The bodies of nine migrants from sub-Saharan African countries have been found in western Tunisia, near the border with Algeria, in recent days, a judicial official said on Wednesday. Tunisia, whose coastline is less than 150 km from the…

‘Father of tiramisu’ dies in Italy aged 93

Mr Ado Campeol, dubbed "the father" of the world-famous tiramisu dessert, died over the weekend, the governor of the Veneto region has announced. He was 93. Mr Campeol was the owner of Le Beccherie restaurant in the city of Treviso that…

Slums dotted with railway sides in Dhaka

Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and one of the most densely populated cities in the world, is dotted with slums along the city's railways, where people work and live on or alongside the railway randomly, as a result, many accidents and…