Tourists die
A helicopter carrying German tourists was buried by an avalanche yesterday in the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia, murdering at slightest 4 of eighteen people on board. Eight survivors were pulled from the snow. The helicopter was on the ground at the time.
Arctic first
A French path-finder has done the initial Arctic channel by balloon, alighting in Siberia five days after receiving off in Norway. Jean-Louis Etienne, 63, had planned to land in Alaska but a sirocco altered his course.
Pirates sunk
The United States army arrested 6 suspected pirates yesterday after they attacked a warship off the Horn of Africa.
The pirates began sharpened at the USS Ashland, an amphibious dock-landing ship, 380 miles off Djibouti.
The Ashland, that can lift 500 marines, returned glow and broken their skiff.
All 6 men were subsequently discovered from the sea.
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