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Neanderthals are an extinct group of archaic humans who inhabited Europe and Western and Central Asia during the Middle to Late Pleistocene. Neanderthal extinction occurred roughly…
A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that today's humans have Neanderthal ancestors
David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Until 2015, he led the…
David Cameron took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed the
James Gordon Brown is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. Previously, he was Chancellor of the…
Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party after failing to strike a c
Tripoli International Airport is a closed international airport built to serve Tripoli, the capital city of Libya. The airport is located in the area of Qasr bin Ghashir, 24 kilome…
On arrival at Tripoli International Airport, Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashed into the ground at a speed of 262 kn (
Jessica Rose Watson is an Australian sailor who was awarded The Medal of the Order of Australia after attempting a solo circumnavigation at the age of 16 from 18 October 2009 to 15…
Three days before her seventeenth birthday, Jessica Watson arrived in Sydney after sailing non-stop and unassisted aroun
Mangaluru, formerly called Mangalore, is a major industrial port city in the Indian state of Karnataka and on the west coast of India. It is located between the Arabian Sea and the…
Upon landing in Mangalore, Air India Express Flight 812 overshot the runway and fell down a hillside, killing 158 of the
On 28 May 2010, a Jnaneshwari Express train with WAP-4 electrified locomotive derailed at about 1 a.m. in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal, India. It was disputed as to w…
A train derailment and collision in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal, India, caused the deaths of at least 148
The Cumbria shootings were a spree shooting and mass shooting that occurred on 2 June 2010 when a lone gunman, taxi driver Derrick Bird, killed twelve people and injured eleven oth…
A gunman carried out a shooting spree in Cumbria, England, killing 12 people and injuring 11 others before committing su