California fire Death toll rises to 87
Los Angeles: The death toll in northern California’s so-called “Camp Fire” rose to 87, officials said late on Saturday, adding that the blaze was almost fully under control. Cal Fire, the state fire authority, said in its latest bulletin that the fire — which broke out on November 8 — was 98 per cent contained.
Swiss vote on bid to preserve cow horns
Geneva: Switzerland was voting on Sunday on an eclectic range of measures including a proposed constitutional amendment to preserve cow horns spearheaded by a livestock farmer who was inspired by talking to his herd.
5 Finns killed on trip to Zimbabwe
Harare: Five Finnish nationals — two business executives a owner of legal firm, a leading IT executive and their pilot — were killed while on a hunting trip when their private plane crashed in Zimbabwe, police said. The hunting trip to the southern African country on Saturday included Heikki Vappula, director of the biorefining sector of United Paper Mills, a paper producer, and Pekka Ojanpaa, CEO of the service company Lassila and Tikanoja, Xinhua news agency reported.