VIDEO: Rey Mysterio Jr. flying kick kills Mexican wrestler; manslaughter charge possible

In this May 27, 2010 photo, Mexican wrestler Pedro Aguayo Ramirez, known as Hijo del Perro Aguayo, poses for photographers at the start of a news conference in Mexico City. Ramirez, the son of a wrestling legend in the country, died early Saturday March 21, 2015, from a hit suffered in the ring in Tijuana, the Baja California state prosecutor's office said. (AP Photo/Enrique Ordonez)

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MEXICO CITY -- Professional wrestler Rey Mysterio Jr. expressed stunned sympathy Saturday after authorities said his blow during a wrestling match the night before killed the son of a Mexican wrestling legend.

Pedro Aguayo Ramirez, known as Hijo del Perro Aguayo, fell unconscious on the ropes Friday after receiving a flying kick from Mysterio, according to video of the match in a municipal auditorium in Tijuana, Mexico.

The Baja California state prosecutor's office said Ramirez died from the blow in the ring. TMZ reported that cause of death appeared to be a snapped vertebrae when Ramirez's head hit the ropes.

The state prosecutor's office said it is investigating whether to file a manslaughter charge, The Associated Press said.

In several tweets posted in Spanish, Mysterio, whose real name is Oscar Gutierrez, said he was left wondering how God allowed such a tragic accident to occur.

According to wrestlezone.com, two of the tweets translate as: "Just formed a friendship between brothers who opened years ago and we should not question the designs of God. But in this occasion I wonder why and I do not understand it...I take you with me for the rest of my life, rest in peace HijoDelPerro." The match continued for about two minutes until other participants and the referee realized Aguayo was seriously injured and began to tend to him, AP said.

He died at the hospital at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, prosecutor's spokesman Raul Gutierrez said.

The Crash, the company that reportedly organized the event, couldn't be reached for comment.

"I have no words for this terrible news," Joaquin Roldan, director of the AAA wrestling federation, said on Twitter. "My sincerest condolences for the Aguayo Ramirez family."

Mexico is famous for its colorful characters and costumes in professional wrestling, popularly known as lucha libre. The fighters perform daring aerial maneuvers inside and outside the ring.

Aguayo, 35, had wrestled for 20 years and was the son of the legendary Pedro "Perro" Aguayo, now retired and a member of the Aztec lucha hall of fame.

The younger Aguayo was also popular and led a group called "Los Perros de Mal," or the bad dogs. He won numerous titles, including national pairs with his father, a national heavyweight championship and the Consejo Mundial Lucha Libre world trios championship.

"It makes me very sad because he was a professional colleague and I have great affection for his father," the wrestler Hijo del Santo said in a telephone interview. "I think the fans in Japan, the U.S. and Mexico, of course, where he was very popular, must be in mourning, especially because of his youth. He had much ahead of him."

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WATCH: Piranha feeding frenzy caught on camera

Like a scene right out of a Hollywood horror flick, a video published online this week shows a river in Brazil practically boiling over with feeding piranhas.

The video may make swimmers everywhere (or at least in South America) recoil in horror, but piranhas are rarely dangerous to people, says Zeb Hogan, a National Geographic fellow and professor of biology at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The toothy, omnivorous fish are found throughout South America, where people often wade or swim around them without being bitten, says Hogan.
“But piranhas can be dangerous if they are trapped in a backwater without food, or [are] somehow concentrated in an area and they are hungry,” he says.

Such a situation was famously chronicled by Theodore Roosevelt during an expedition to the Amazon in 1913-14, when starved piranhas trapped in a small pool shredded a whole cow carcass in seconds. (Watch piranhas devour an egret chick.)

Fishermen are occasionally bitten, and there have been some recent reports of attacks by piranhas and related fish in South America, including one death, “but these events are extremely rare,” says Hogan.

The fish in the video might be particularly aggressive if they've been fed regularly by people, Hogan says. Piranhas congregating to catch an easy meal  would build up in large numbers, causing them to act just as they do when trapped in a small pool.

The area filmed might be a fish-cleaning station, or perhaps a planned act to amuse tourists, Hogan speculates. (Learn about the man who smuggled 40,000 piranhas.)

The person who posted the YouTube video has not responded to a request for more information about the scene that was recorded.

Piranhas play an important ecological role as scavengers and predators in their native rivers, says Hogan. They will often resort to cannibalism if food gets scarce. It's unknown how many species of piranhas exist, with estimates ranging from 30 to 60.

“I've been swimming dozens of times in rivers where piranha were very abundant and I've never been bitten,” adds Hogan.

Source: National Geographic

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Meet Apple's super-thin new MacBook

Forget all your wires and cables. You won't need them if you buy Apple's new MacBook -- it only has two ports.

Apple's new MacBook is its thinnest and lightest laptop to date. To achieve this feat, Apple (AAPL, Tech30) engineers streamlined many features traditionally associated with portable computers, and eliminated some as well. Here's what you need to know:

1. The body is tapered like the MacBook Air. At its thickest, the new 12-inch MacBook is 13.1mm high (about half an inch) -- 24% thinner than the existing 11-inch MacBook Air.

"Can you even see it? I can't even see it," Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, said on stage at an Apple event Monday afternoon, holding a closed laptop.

2. It weighs two pounds. For comparison, the MacBook Air weighs almost two-and-a-half pounds. The iPad Air 2 weighs just under one pound.

3. Taking a page from the iPhone design book, the new, all-metal body MacBook comes in three different colors: silver, gray, and gold. 4. The new MacBook is fanless, which is partly why the laptop is so thin and light.

5. There are only two ports. One is a headphone port, and the other port is for a new kind of USB connector called the USB-C. The USB-C port is about a third of the size of a standard USB port, and serves as a single connection point to charge the laptop's batteries, transfer data, and transmit video.

For consumers who want to use their existing, standard USB devices with the laptop, this new USB format will most likely be a pain point. An adapter dongle for the USB-C port costs $80 on the Apple store.

6. Apple has also redesigned the keyboard, which now extends to the edges of the laptop. The keyboard has also been updated to respond to lighter touches, meaning less pounding when typing. The surface of each key is also 17% larger and is lit by individual LED lights underneath "for more precise illumination," Schiller said.

7. The computer's track pad also got a nice upgrade. Like the new Apple Watch, the track pad is now powered by Apple's new Taptic Engine, which picks up on how forceful a touch or tap is. For example, instead of clicking repeatedly on the fast forward button on Quicktime to speed up a video, you only need to press down on the new track pad a little longer and harder than a tap to achieve the same goal.

8. On stage at the event, Schiller said the new MacBook is the "world's most energy-efficient notebook." The laptop's Intel Core M processor consumes five watts of power, and its newly designed and contoured battery cells have 35% more capacity.

9. The new MacBook has a battery life of up to 10 hours.

10. The cost for a new 12-inch MacBook 1.1 GHz dual-core Intel Core M processor with 256GB of flash storage starts $1299. A 12" 1.2 GHz dual-core Intel Core M processor MacBook with 512GB of flash storage starts at $1599.

11. Shipping starts April 10.

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WATCH: Video shows Los Angeles police shooting homeless man

Warning: This video contains images some viewers may find distressing

A video has emerged of police in Los Angeles shooting dead a mentally ill homeless man during a struggle.

The graphic film of the shooting was posted on Facebook and showed a man fighting with six police officers before five shots were fired.

It was the latest in a series of controversial US police shootings after other recent deaths in New York and Ferguson, Missouri, led to widespread protests.

Police in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. Credit: Facebook / Anthony Blackburn

Several witnesses claimed the man, known as “Africa” had already been restrained when he was shot. The video showed a small group angrily shouting at officers, particularly the single black officer at the scene, immediately afterwards.

One shouted: “Why did you shoot that man? You got (him) tased. Why did you shoot that man?” Another yelled: “Ain’t nobody got no gun!” Larry Jackson, a witness, said: “Instead of handcuffing the guy they straight out shot him.”


Anthony Blackburn, the bystander who filmed the video, claimed the young black officer was among those who opened fire.

He told KABC-TV: “I had my phone out videotaping the whole thing because we’ve been hearing on the news about police brutality. I just wanted to film it and just make sure everything was all right. But I ended up seeing a tragedy.”

The video was viewed 4.3 million times in the 12 hours after it was posted on the internet.

The shooting happened on Skid Row, an area of downtown Los Angeles populated by homeless people in tents and makeshift cardboard shelters.

Witnesses said Africa had been there up to five months and had “a lot of mental issues”.

One said he had recently been released after 10 years in a mental health facility. Another told the Los Angeles Times he had refused to remove his tent from the pavement, adding: “This man got shot over a tent.”

The Los Angeles police department said an independent investigation would be launched and the officers who opened fire would be removed from field duty during it. At least one officer was wearing a body camera.

A spokesman said officers responded to a suspected robbery. The suspect then began swinging his arms at them and they used a stun gun but that was “ineffective.”

In a struggle on the ground the suspect tried to grab one of the officer’s guns and they opened fire, the spokesman said..

During the video, “drop the gun!” can be heard. Police said they would amplify the sound to determine exactly what warning was given.

Steve Soboroff, Los Angeles police commission president, said: “I would encourage people not to rush to judgment. It’s not fair to anybody.”

Source: The Telegaph

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WATCH: Ronda Rousey beat Cat Zingano in 14 seconds

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On Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Ronda Rousey fought Cat Zingano as the main card in the highly-anticipated UFC 184. Both MMA stars put their undefeated records on the line in the contest.

And who came out on top? Rousey. In a mere 14 seconds. And how’d she do it? With an armbar, of course. Watch below:


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WATCH: SIS fighters destroy ancient artifacts at Mosul museum

Islamic State militants ransacked Mosul’s central museum, destroying priceless artefacts that are thousands of years old, in the group’s latest rampage which threatens to upend millennia of coexistence in the Middle East.

The destruction of statues and artefacts that date from the Assyrian and Akkadian empires, revealed in a video published by Isis on Thursday, drew ire from the international community and condemnation by activists and minorities that have been attacked by the group.

“The birthplace of human civilisation … is being destroyed”, said Kino Gabriel, one of the leaders of the Syriac Military Council – a Christian militia – in a telephone interview with the Guardian from Hassakeh in north-eastern Syria. The destruction took place in Mosul, the Iraqi city that has been under the control of Isis since June when jihadi fighters advanced rapidly across the country’s north.
“In front of something like this, we are speechless,” said Gabriel. “Murder of people and destruction is not enough, so even our civilisation and the culture of our people is being destroyed.”
Isis destroys thousands of books and manuscripts in Mosul libraries
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The five-minute video, which was released by the “press office of the province of Nineveh [the region around Mosul]”, begins with a Qur’anic verse on idol worship. An Isis representative then speaks to the camera, condemning Assyrians and Akkadians as polytheists, justifying the destruction of the artefacts and statues.

The man describes the prophet Muhammad’s destruction of idols in Mecca as an example.

“These statues and idols, these artifacts, if God has ordered its removal, they became worthless to us even if they are worth billions of dollars,” the man said.
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Isis militants then smash the statues in the Mosul museum with hammers and push them to the ground, watching them break into tiny fragments. The footage also shows a man dressed in black at a nearby archaeological site, inside Mosul, drilling through and destroying a winged bull, an Assyrian protective deity, that dates back to the 7th century BC

“When you watch the footage, you feel visceral pain and outrage, like you do when you see human beings hurt,” said Mardean Isaac, an Assyrian writer and member of A Demand for Action, an organisation dedicated to protecting the rights of the Assyrians and other minorities in Syria and Iraq.

A caption says the artefacts did not exist in the time of the prophet, and were put on display by “devil worshippers”, a term the militant group has used in the past to describe members of the Yazidi minority.

A professor at the Archaeology College in Mosul confirmed to the Associated Press that the two sites depicted in the video are the city museum and Nirgal Gate, one of several gates to Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire.

“I’m totally shocked,” Amir al-Jumaili told the AP “It’s a catastrophe. With the destruction of these artefacts, we can no longer be proud of Mosul’s civilisation.”

Isis took control of Mosul last summer in a lightning advance that led to the eviction of thousands of Christians and other minorities from their ancestral homelands in the Nineveh plains, amid reports of forced conversions.

“We cannot expect anything else from Daesh,” said Gabriel, using the Arabic acronym for Isis.

He said the international community must act to prevent the destruction and looting of the artifacts.

“The loss is the loss of the entire world,” he said.

Isaac said: “While the Islamic State is ethnically cleansing the contemporary Assyrian populations of Iraq and Syria, they are also conducting a simultaneous war on their ancient history and the right of future generations of all ethnicities and religions to the material memory of their ancestors.”

The destruction of the priceless treasures comes days after Isis kidnapped 220 Assyrian Christian villagers in north-eastern Syria.

It is the latest assault in a campaign against coexistence in the region, especially in Iraq, which has seen the displacement of many of its Chaldean Christians, who have lived there with many ethnic minorities since the religion’s dawn.

Isis has also attempted to starve and enslave members of the Yazidi minority in Iraq.

Irina Bokova, the director general of Unesco, the UN cultural agency, said she was deeply shocked at the footage showing the destruction and has asked the president of the UN security council to convene an emergency meeting “on the protection of Iraq’s cultural heritage as an integral element for the country’s security”.

Source: The Guardian

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WATCH: 'Power Rangers' gets super dark in this short-film remake

This isn't the Power Rangers you grew up with.

A short film starring Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff  and Dawson's Creek's James Van Der Beek shows the Power Rangers as adults—seriously disturbed after being made to fight at a young age.

The originally no-holds-barred NSFW version of the video was posted on Vimeo, though it could no longer be automatically accessed from there as of Wednesday. However, a partially censored—but still unsettlingly violent—version is still up on YouTube:




With Sackhoff as Kimberly/Pink Ranger and Van Der Beek as Rocky/Red Ranger, the short film also includes Russ Bain as Tommy/Green Ranger, Will Yun Lee as General Klank, and Gichi Gamba as Zack/Black Ranger.


Darkly violent

So just how dark is the movie? Consequence of Sound said this is one film with "the word 'violent' extremely emphasized."

"This hard R-rated take on the kid’s action show is full of bloody deaths and adult language that makes the clip extremely NSFW and NSFSMT (not safe for Saturday morning TV)," it said.

Producer Joseph Kahn, in an interview with HitFix, said the trick he wanted to do "was to make that dark and gritty version that everybody keeps talking about, but really do it. Really see if I could totally accomplish it with essentially a really incredible incredibly silly property."

"When I was a child I had two favorite TV shows the X-Men animated series and Power Rangers. I eventually came to the realization that high school kids weaponized to fight an intergalactic threat would turn those kids into some seriously disturbed adults," said producer Adi Shankar.

Saban takedown

In the hours since POWER/RANGERS was released, Khan said the original NSFW video was taken down due to pressure from Saban Entertainment—the owners of the original Power Rangers franchise.

Saban Entertainment has not yet released an official response as of posting time.

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WATCH: Traffic comes to a halt as it starts raining money in Dubai

Motorists driving through Dubai could not believe their eyes when it started raining money in the middle of the UAE city.

Thousands of 500 UAE Dirham notes - worth around £88 - flew through the oil-rich city on a busy afternoon earlier this month, and officials have yet to give an explanation as to why, or reveal a source of the cash.

Drivers abandoned their cars in order to get their hands on the notes blowing down the road, and were filmed holding handfuls of notes.
It is estimated that notes valued between two and three million Dirham were loose - meaning up to £500,000 was blowing in the wind.

The notes were carried by strong winds through the Jumeirah area of Dubai for several minutes, but locals have got no idea where it came from.

One surprised local described how his wife pulled over her car to film motorists dodging cash collectors on a busy stretch of highway in the city.

He said: 'It was a very windy day. She was stuck in the traffic. She saw all this money.

'It was just raining money. It was 500 AED notes which is worth quite a lot. It was a lot of money.

'A lot of people were getting out of there care to grab this month.

'It doesn't happen every day. Everyone was amazing this was happening.'

The baffling incident happened at around 3pm on February 11 and locals have no explanation.

Police later arrived at the area and ushered people away, local media reports.

Source: Daily Mail

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WARNING: GRAPHIC - ISIS terrorists release shocking video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians

WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO. WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK.

The video shows ISIS fighters dressed head to toe in black, marching the captives, all wearing orange jumpsuits, to a beach.

The 21 men can be seen being forced onto their knees before they are beheaded by the militants standing behind them.

A caption on the five-minute video read: 'The people of the cross, followers of the hostile Egyptian church.
 

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Beijing company offers night with Japanese porn star as year-end bonus

While it's typical for Chinese companies to offer prizes in the form of cash and cars to employees as a bonus ahead of the Chinese New Year, one tech firm in Beijing is steering wildly off-course from tradition with a year-end gift that one lucky winner will probably not be bringing home to show the missus: a Japanese porn star.

This is according to a list that was leaked online allegedly showing an array of year-end bonus options for employees at Qihoo360, a Beijing-based tech company known for its anti-spyware programs.



While the standard luxury vehicles and all-expenses-paid holidays appear on the list, one particular prize has raised eyebrows of many an envious netizen. Qihoo360 is supposedly offering a night with Japanese adult film star Julia Kyoka, famous across China for her J-cup breasts and, um, pretty much everything else.

The gift list circulating online hasn't been verified, and it's speculated that it's just a fake—another list was published excluding Julia as the top prize.

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Source: Shanghaiist

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WATCH: This is a 10K time-lapse video created using 80MP still photographs

Want to see what a 10K time-lapse video looks like? Look no further than the video above. Titled “10328×7760: A 10K Timelapse Demo,” it was created by Los Angeles-based photographer Joe Capra, a guy who specializes in ultra-high-definition time-lapse photography.

If you don’t have a 10K display handy, don’t worry: the video zooms in to show you the level of quality the video has.

Capra shot a total of 5 different scenes in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil using a PhaseOne IQ180 digital camera back to capture 80 megapixel photos. Each of the individual RAW photos was 10328×7760 pixels in resolution.

The PhaseOne IQ180 digital back attached to a camera.

“I tried to keep the shots as close to raw as possible so you may see some dust spots, noise, and manual exposure changes I made while shooting,” Capra says. “Each shot was very minimally processed and included curves, input sharpening, saturation adjustments.”


Each of the 5 shot sequences starts off with a full resolution view of the entire scene, scaled down to fit 1080p (a 14% scale). The next shot is a 50% scale to show more detail. Finally, we’re treated to a number of 100% zooms showing the full extend of the detail captured in the time-lapse.

As an example, here is the first shot seen in the time-lapse, zoomed out all the way to show the whole scene:

 
…and here’s the 100% zoomed-in view that shows a small little section at the top of the hill:



“As you can see, the quality and detail holds up extremely well, it’s pretty amazing,” writes Capra. “You can literally get about 8-10 solid 1920×1080 shots out of a single shot. You can also get about 5-6 solid 4K shots out of a single shot.”

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Pinoy DOTA 2 Team Wins P6.6 MILLION In Asian Championships

Filipino team Rave — made up of mostly Pinoys based in South Korea — took home $100,000 or P6.6 MILLION as they landed fifth place in the DoTA 2 Asian Championships in China. That is awesome!

According to Rappler, the members of the team are composed of Ryo “ryOyr” Hasegawa, Jio “Jeyo” Madayag, Djardel “Chrissy” Mampusti, Mark “Cast” Pilar, and Michael “nb” Ross.

Team Rave landed a fifth place finish when they lost to Chinese team Big God (BG) in their final match, in a best-of-3 series, pitting them at two matches to one.

Dota 2 Philippines congratulated the team on Twitter after their stint:

Get to know more about these awesome pro gamers here:
 
 
Source: When In Manila

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WARNING: GRAPHIC - Actual video of brutal execution of incapacitated SAF Operatives

WARNING: VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO. DO NOT PROCEED IF YOU FIND THIS DISTURBING.
This is a video of the actual encounter between MILF/BIFF forces and SAF operatives in Mamasapano, Maguindanao.

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WATCH: 9-year-old survives being sucked into flooded storm drain

A nine-year-old boy and his uncle are alive after being sucked through a flooded storm drain in southern Brazil. Neither sustained major injuries. Video: Reuters

A shocking video emerged out of Brazil Thursday (February 5) that showed a 9-year-old boy and his uncle being pulled under water and sucked into a flooded storm drain they were trying to clear of debris.

In the mobile phone video, which went viral in the South American country, the boy and four men are seen playing in a pool of muddy flood water as they try to clear plants and other rubbish from a backed up storm drain. But the boy and his uncle are suddenly dragged underwater as the pipe's passageway clears up.



The boy's aunt, who filmed the potentially deadly scene, screams in horror as the two disappear under the brown water.

Another family member captured the frightening images from a different angle.

But moments after the scary encounter the boy emerges from the other end of the pipe, 6 meters (yards) away, celebrating the harrowing adventure.

His uncle then came out, embracing a more subdued reaction.

Both only suffered minor injuries.

The incident occurred in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

The family uploaded the video to social media and it was quickly circulating throughout Brazil.

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WATCH: TransAsia plane crashes in Taiwan river, killing at least 23 people

A TransAsia Airways flight in Taiwan carrying 58 passengers and crew careened past buildings, clipped a highway and crashed into a shallow stream, killing at least 23 people.

TransAsia GE 235, a domestic flight from Taipei to Kinmen – a small archipelago near mainland China – crashed at 10.56am local time, according to Taiwan’s aviation council, about three minutes after it took off. Astonishing dash-cam videos posted online showed the turboprop ATR 72-600 aircraft in its final airborne moments, turning vertical over a highway and clipping a taxi cab and a bridge with its left wing.

Rescuers are searching into the night for 20 missing people, after 15 were pulled alive from the wreckage.

“Several fire engines, ambulances, water craft and almost 170 rescue staff have been dispatched,” said a press release by the Taiwanese Central Disaster Response Centre. Local TV stations broadcasted footage of rescue workers in life vests and yellow helmets surrounding the plane’s fuselage in inflatable rafts.

At the moment, things don’t look too optimistic,” said Wu Jun-hong, a Taipei Fire Department official who was coordinating the rescue, according to the Associated Press. “Those in the front of the plane are likely to have lost their lives.”

The driver of the clipped taxi cab “has been sent to a local hospital”, an assistant to the Crown Taxi Company’s general manager who identified himself as Mr Yang told the Guardian.

“He has head injury and concussion, but all of his vital signs are stable.” Yang added that the company planned to raise the topic of compensation with TransAsia Airways at a later date.

Rescuers carry out rescue operations after a TransAsia plane crashed into a river in New Taipei City. Photograph: Pichi Chuang/Reuters

The last communication from one of the aircraft’s pilots was “Mayday Mayday engine flameout”, according to an air traffic control recording on liveatc.net.

A flameout occurs when the fuel supply to the engine is interrupted or when there is faulty combustion, resulting in an engine failure.

The flight’s black box has been recovered, according to local media.

“Weather conditions were good and the pilot had 14,000 hours of flying hours and the co-pilot 4,000 hours,” Lin Zhiming, a representative from Taiwan’s Civil Aviation Authority, told reporters on Wednesday afternoon.

Search and rescue team members operate on a TransAsia Airways passenger plane crashed into the Keelung River in Taipei, Taiwan. Photograph: David Chang/EPA

Among the passengers were 31 mainland Chinese tourists, travelling with two local travel agencies: Teyung Group, and Flying Tours.
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Lin Liqing, manager of the Teyung Group, said that she had just arrived in Taipei to help with the handling of the incident.

“We are currently heading to the crash site and checking the passenger list with TransAsia Airways,” Lin said. She added that the passengers had been sent to eight local hospitals, and that she had not yet been able to visit them.

The manager of Flying Tours said that among 15 mainland Chinese tourists on the plane who were travelling with the agency, he had only confirmed one injured passenger – one of the two infants on board. He had no information on the remaining 14 people.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Taiwanese broadcaster TVBS showed rescuers pulling a toddler alive from the wreckage and rushing him or her to safety.

The chief executive of TransAsia, Chen Xinde, has publicly apologised for the crash.

Wednesday’s crash is the second by a TransAsia flight within the past six months — in July 2014, TransAsia flight ATR-72 crashed while attempting to land in the Penghu Islands soon after a typhoon, killing 48 people. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

Source: The Guardian

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WATCH: Brazil beauty pageant ends in chaos

RIO DE JANEIRO - "And the winner is..."

Miss Amazon 2015 in Brazil ended in acrimony and accusations of cheating when a runner-up tore the sash and crown from the winning contestant.

Smiling and holding hands, the two finalists waited for the announcement of the result of the competition on Friday night in the Amazonas state in northern Brazil.

Carolina Toledo had just a moment to celebrate her victory before furious rival Sheislane Hayalla sneaked up from behind and yanked off her crown and sash, according to video of the event posted online.





The rude departure from pageant politesse was greeted with both cheers and screams from the exasperated crowd.

Video of Hayalla's reaction went viral on social networks.

"In Manaus money is the boss and I'm showing the people of Amazonas that money is not in charge here, she did not deserve it," said Hayalla in reference to the state's capital.

Hayalla told Globo G1 that even before the event she knew she wouldn't be the winner and that Toledo was given special privileges other contestants didn't have.

"There were more prepared contestants (than the winner), and they do not regret what I did because it was not against them but against the coordination of the competition," Hayalla said.

Afterwards, an incensed Toledo said Hayalla would "face justice" for her allegations.

"I got the title by my effort, sacrifice... I sleep with a clear conscience," said Toledo.

The winner of Miss Amazon competes in Miss Brazil in September.

Source: ABS-CBN News

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WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO - Aftermath Video of the PNP-SAF Massacre in Maguindanao

Atleast 50 members of Philippine National Police - Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) lost their lives in a clash with the members of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), a break away group from MILF, last Sunday, January 25, 2015.


The SAF contingent involved in the encounter was in Mamasapano to search for Malaysian bomb expert Zulkifli bin Hir, also known as Marwan, who is reportedly being protected by the BIFF. He has a bounty of $5,000,000 from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. Al-Haq, a spokesman for the MILF’s Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces said the SAF men were also searching for Basit Usman, who underwent training in bomb making in Peshawar, Pakistan and Kandahar, Afghanistan in the late 1980s.

The policemen were trapped and ran out of ammunition during the firefight, another police officer said.



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WATCH: Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather come face to face at NBA match

Miami: Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao have finally met in person.

And now talks might get serious about them meeting in the ring.

The fighters were both sitting courtside, directly across from one another, at a Miami Heat game on Tuesday night. Mayweather went over to Pacquiao at halftime, the men shook hands and chatted briefly, then exchanged phone numbers.

“He gave his number to me and said we will communicate with each other,” said Pacquiao, adding that he had never before met Mayweather in person.

Asked to clarify if the exchange meant the two would negotiate directly about meeting in the ring, Pacquiao said that was the case.

Mayweather did not respond to a question asked by an AP reporter. “Not now,” one of his security guards said, as Mayweather fiddled with his phone.

A bout between the two would almost certainly be the richest ever in boxing, potentially grossing as much as $250 million. Mayweather’s take alone could exceed $100 million.

Mayweather said last month that he’s ready to make the fight happen May 2. Asked Tuesday if that date can finally be the one, Pacquiao — who has said it’s time to give boxing fans what they want — nodded and said “yes.”

When Mayweather said he wanted the May 2 fight to happen, he said Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum had been the main obstacle for it not coming together in the last five years. Mayweather repeated his old charges about Pacquiao not wanting to do blood tests prior to the fight for it not happening five years ago.

He also has no doubt that he could beat Pacquiao.

“I know that he’s not on my level,” Mayweather said last month.

Pacquiao has a similar confidence, saying on Twitter recently that “I can easily beat @FloydMayweather, I believe that.”

It appears to be happenstance that Mayweather and Pacquiao were together on Tuesday.

Pacquiao has been in Miami for several days, after serving as one of the judges in the Miss Universe pageant at Florida International University. He was supposed to leave Tuesday night but said his flight was canceled - as many were in South Florida because of the crippling effects felt nationwide by the havoc a winter storm caused in the New York and Boston areas.

So Pacquiao decided to come to the Heat-Milwaukee Bucks game. He’s a noted basketball fan and has a good relationship with Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, who is of Filipino descent.

Mayweather has been a regular courtside attendee at Heat games for several years.

And it just so happened they picked the same game. Pacquiao said he didn’t expect to see Mayweather - who had a seat just a few feet from Spoelstra’s spot on the side of the court where the Heat have their bench.

Spoelstra met with Pacquiao before the game and said he was “totally shocked” to see Mayweather on the same night. If the fight happens May 2, it would occur somewhere around the end of the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.

“I hope we’re extremely busy at that time, May 2,” Spoelstra said, “and I hope they’re very busy as well.”

Mayweather, the WBA and WBC welterweight champion, hasn’t lost in 47 fights. Pacquiao, the WBO welterweight titleholder, is 57-5-2 in his career.

Even the Heat in-game marketing arm weighed in on the buzz surrounding the potential fight. They put photos of both fighters on their video screens during a first-half stoppage in play, with the caption “Coming in 2015?”

There’s no sure answer — yet.

Source: Gulf News

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