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While models backstage get their hair styled, Medina Abdirashid Ali proudly wraps her hijab, hoping her role in the fashion industry will encourage more people to see women in headscarves differently.Ali became Adelaide’s first hijab model…

Orbiting the sun every 50,000 years, Comet C/2022 E3 hasn’t passed our planet since the stone age. The comet comes from the Oort cloud at the edge of the solar system, and will be at its closest to…

The end of the line for Matteo Messina Denaro came in mundane fashion. On a Monday morning this month, the mafia boss was waiting in a queue for a Covid vaccine in Palermo when police closed in. A…

A Missouri mother who reported that her infant twins were stillborn has been convicted of manslaughter.Maya Caston, 28, was convicted on Friday of second-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts of child endangerment.The St. Louis…

The San Antonio Zoo is offering a special Valentine’s Day greeting for exes who just won’t bug off.For $10, the zoo will name a cockroach after your not-so-special someone and feed it to an animal – a cold, but direct message that you are…

Devastating flash flooding in New Zealand has claimed the lives of at least four people and destroyed many properties as heavy rain continues to lash the north island.Auckland, the country’s largest city, has been battered since Friday and…

At least 10 children have been killed when a boat carrying religious school students capsized in northwest Pakistan.About eight students were still missing while seven injured had been taken to hospital, according to officials in Khyber…

A teenage diver was reportedly killed in gory fashion by a shark off the west coast of Mexico.The mauling - which would be the first such death in 2023 - took place on January 5 near Benito Juarez in Sonora.Shark monitoring website Tracking…

The baby boy hurt in a tragedy this week where US officials say a mother strangled two of her children and tried to kill a third, has died, bringing the death toll to three.The Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office announced earlier in…

Dylan Gartenmayer has been diving and spearfishing along the Florida coast since he was 10. That experience helped him survive a frightening ordeal that left him stranded at sea for hours.The 21-year-old was free diving at the Western Sambo…