Israeli soldiers kill three Palestinians
Jerusalem: Three Palestinian teenagers were shot and killed while attempting to attack Israeli security forces in two separate incidents in the West Bank on Sunday, the Israeli military and police said. In the first incident, two Palestinians were throwing rocks at passing vehicles near the West Bank city of Jenin, the military said, and when forces arrived at the scene, one of the Palestinians opened fire at them.
‘5.8-magnitude quake hits New Zealand city’
Wellington: A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Sunday, seismologists said, sending goods flying off shelves. GeoNet Science, the official New Zealand earthquake monitoring service, warned of aftershocks following the “severe intensity” quake.
4 UK rowers rescued from Atlantic
london: Four British women trying to cross the Atlantic in a rowing boat have been rescued after they were stranded in the mid-Atlantic Ocean for more than 16 hours when their boat capsized and they lost their oars. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency says the rowers sent a distress signal on Saturday, when they were 400 nautical miles off the west coast of Africa. The crew of four had to abandon their charity attempt to break the women's speed record for rowing almost 4,828 kilometers across the Atlantic between Gran Canaria in Spain and Barbados.