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Official: AirAsia Jet 'Probably at Bottom of Sea' (Newser Nine at Nine)

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Official: AirAsia Jet 'Probably at Bottom of Sea'

(Newser) - The search has resumed for missing AirAsia Flight 8501, but there appears to be no hope of anything but a tragic outcome. "Based on the coordinates given to us and evaluation that the estimated crash position is in the sea, the hypothesis is the plane is at the bottom... More »

Rescue Complete in Greek Ferry Inferno

(Newser) - Simultaneously battling driving rain, gale-force winds , freezing temperatures, flames, and smoke, Italian and Greek rescuers have painstakingly plucked all of nearly 500 passengers and crew from a blazing ferry in the Adriatic Sea, reports CNN . In the course of the day-long rescue, they came upon four more bodies aboard the... More »

Gmail Now Fully Blocked in China

(Newser) - The Great Firewall has apparently expanded. Gmail hasn't been directly accessible for six months in China; now, users can't reach it through third-party services like Microsoft Outlook either. The latest crackdown on Google in the country appears to have begun on Friday, according to Google data , the Wall ... More »

Argentina President Adopts Jewish 'Werewolf'

(Newser) - Argentina's president has a new godson and the country remains safe from ravenous, flesh-eating mythical beings. According to folklore, a family's seventh son in a row turns into a werewolf-like creature called a "Lobizon" on his 13th birthday and feasts on the flesh of unbaptized babies and... More »

Report: ISIS Has Executed 4 Children

(Newser) - ISIS has killed 1,878 people in Syria—most of them civilians—over the six-month period since it proclaimed a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria in late June, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights . Among the victims: four children, eight women, members of an opposing Sunni... More »

It's Not Just Greenpeace Damaging Nazca Lines

(Newser) - A spectacularly ill-advised Greenpeace stunt did what authorities say is permanent damage to the ancient Nazca Lines, but archaeologists say the activists were just the latest in a long line of threats to Peru's heritage. Tomb raiders, developers, and illegal miners have destroyed or disturbed countless sites across the... More »

Family of 10 Missed Doomed Flight by Minutes

(Newser) - Some 162 passengers and crew are missing and presumed lost on AirAsia Flight 8501 , but the total would be a lot higher if the airline hadn't changed the departure time to two hours earlier than originally scheduled. Christianawati was one of 10 members of an extended family—including her... More »

After Boy's Call, 4 Found Dead in Texas Home

(Newser) - Police found two women, a man, and a girl younger than 16 dead in a small-town Texas home yesterday. They were responding after a 9-year-old boy called a relative, saying that a man at the house had attempted suicide, the Dallas Morning News reports. The dead appeared to have suffered... More »

First Bobcat in 100 Years Spotted on Georgia Island

(Newser) - Not long after authorities recommended hiring sharpshooters to thin out herds of white-tailed deer on Georgia's Jekyll Island, a more natural solution was spotted: Remote-sensing cameras set up to measure the deer population captured images of a lone bobcat, the first of its kind known to have been on... More »