Doubts raised over shark victim's story
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A man who said a shark attacked him on Sydney's Bondi beach has been arrested for theft and may have made the story up, the Australian media said today
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A pair of sharks killed a teenage water-skier at a popular Adelaide beach as horrified friends looked on, in Australia's second fatal shark attack in less than a week.
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Accounts from the survivors of an ordeal that killed about 50 people stranded at sea have gripped the Dominican Republic.
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Two decades ago, Greg Marshall was diving off the reefs of Belize studying queen conchs when he noticed a reef shark passing by with a remora clinging to its belly. The thought occurred to Marshall, who was then a graduate student in marine environmental science, that if a camera could be attached...
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CAPE TOWN -- A great white shark estimated to be at least 18 feet long attacked and presumably killed an elderly South African woman yesterday off a beach near Cape Town, officials said. Tyna Webb, 77, who lived in the area, was swimming off Sunny Cove in Fish Hoek when the massive shark circled her and then attacked, witnesses and ...
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At first glance, the story seemed straightforward. There was a vulnerable victim, a threat to her health and a violation of her rights.
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Business & money: Â· Doubt cast on SocGen claim of single perpetratorÂ· Employee of financial services firm is held
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Authorities said Friday they would kill the shark that tore apart a young surfer near a popular south Australian beach as his friends reportedly tried to save him by beating the animal with oars.
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RALEIGH, N.C., Dec. 14 -- The woman who said she was raped at a party thrown by Duke's lacrosse team misidentified her alleged attackers in a photo lineup that was "an incoherent mass of contradiction and error," defense lawyers argued in court papers filed Thursday.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard was fighting to maintain his credibility after official transcripts backed up critics' claims about what he knew of a controversial 2001 sea rescue of boatpeople.
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Authorities investigating a fatal shark attack off Cairns in far-north Queensland say it is too early to say what species of shark was involved.
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Fears about the impact of the alien snakehead, or "Frankenfish," on native ecosystems appear unfounded, experts say, though much about the fish remains a mystery.
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Shark! Sharks attacked 62 people without provocation last year, killing four of them, scientists at the University of Florida said yesterday.
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Fears are growing for a Co Tyrone man who is thought to have been on the Thai island of Phi Phi when the tsunami struck.
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A Territorian yesterday told how he watched in horror as two sharks savaged a man to death at a popular beach. Chris Niemoeller had been swimming near the same spot minutes earlier.
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New evidence casts doubt on charges against a doctor and five nurses accused of deliberately infecting children with H.I.V.
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The lawyer for a serial killings suspect cast doubt on the only witness linking the man to any crime, suggesting Monday that the woman's memory of the vicious beating she survived had "grown" over time.