NAIROBI, Kenya – The captain of the ship that ran aground in Mauritius and ran about 1,000 tons of oil in the Indian Ocean has been arrested, his lawyer said on Tuesday. The captain, Sunil Kumar Nandeshwar, was arrested in a district court in the country’s capital, Port Louis, on …
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Mars is pockmarked with absolutely massive lava tubes, with ceilings as high as the Empire State Building, new research shows. And the moon hosts even more gargantuan tubes, with heights doubling Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, and “skylights” as large as football fields. These gifted, underground …
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Florida theme parks certainly want to showcase Floridians. As amusement parks continue to try to track crowds after several months of coronavirus-forced shutdowns, it seems that some parks in Florida are aiming to keep things local. In fact, two of the state’s largest theme parks offer steep discounts on maps, …
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Ralph Orlowski | Bloomberg | Getty Images The S&P 500 closed a new record on Tuesday, a performance that officially puts an end to Wall Street’s shortest bear market and confirms the comeback rally as a new bull market. The broad market index completed the session at 3,389.78, above its …
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Photo illustration by Slate. Image by BardoczPeter / iStock / Getty Images Plus. The gibberish that recently appeared on the Mexican flagship website was so bizarre that it could just as well have been co-opted by a competitor. Earlier this month, viewers who saw in the English-language submissions on VisitMexico.com …
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