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A Taiwanese Air Force officer died after being sucked into the engine of a fighter jet, officials said. The incident reportedly happened at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base on Tuesday while the master sergeant was performing a pre-shutdown inspection of the aircraft. Taiwan’s Air Force said the officer was “inhaled by the engine for unknown reasons.” She later was pronounced dead after life-saving efforts were unsuccessful. “In response to media reports that ‘it is suspected that an instructor’s throttle application caused a female officer to be inhaled by a fighter jet,’ the Air Force Command stated that the case is currently being investigated…

THE FIRST thing that catches your eye when you enter the poshly serene headquarters of Sequoia Capital on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, is a metre-wide cross-section of what appears to be a redwood. On closer inspection it turns out to have been a tree in the past—38m years ago, according to a plaque on the back. Now it is solid stone. A gift from Roelof Botha, the venture-capital (VC) firm’s current boss, and his wife, it reminds employees and guests of the durability of the organisation they are visiting, which has existed since 1972. In the accelerated…

A senior Iranian politician has appealed to Donald Trump to begin new negotiations with Tehran over its civil nuclear programme, saying: “I hope that this time around, [Trump 2.0] will be more serious, more focused, more realistic.”Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s vice-president for strategic affairs, pointed out that the returning US president had not reappointed figures from his first term such as the former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton, who persuaded him in 2018 to quit the nuclear deal on the basis that withdrawal would lead to the regime’s collapse.Instead, Zarif said, withdrawal had left…

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said on Wednesday that they would free the crew of a commercial vessel, the Galaxy Leader, that they hijacked 14 months ago as part of their campaign of attacks in the Red Sea to support Hamas in its war against Israel.The decision is consistent with an announcement made on Sunday by the rebel group, which is backed by Iran, to scale back its attacks, given a cease-fire in the conflict in Gaza that went into effect over the weekend.The Houthis took the Galaxy Leader to the Yemeni port of Al-Hudaydah and since then have held its crew…

A cat has made three flights between New Zealand and Australia in just 24 hours after being forgotten on a plane.Mittens, an eight-year-old Maine Coon, was booked to travel from Christchurch to Melbourne on 12 January – but her cage was left in the Air New Zealand aircraft’s cargo hold.After waiting for three hours for Mittens at Melbourne airport, owner Margo Neas was told by ground staff the plane had already returned to New Zealand with her pet.During that flight the heating was turned on to keep the cat comfortable, Ms Neas said. The pet – who had lost weight…

UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley’s latest sideline antics with officials were captured by broadcast cameras on Tuesday night, when the Huskies outlasted Butler in overtime to win their 15th-straight game at the XL Center in Hartford. The veteran coach, who led the Huskies to back-to-back national championships in the past two seasons, has become known for letting officials know exactly how he feels. Tuesday night was no different, but Hurley’s choice of words to one official became an instant viral moment on social media.  UConn Huskies head coach Dan Hurley watches from the sideline as they take on the Butler Bulldogs…

Bend Studio has not been having a particularly good time lately. Since 2012 they’ve only released one game (Days Gone, 2019) and then news broke earlier this week that a live-service title it was developing was cancelled by Sony. Given Bend is a smaller studio, there’s a strong possibility the cancelled title was their sole project, meaning a new triple-A title from them would likely not appear until 2028 or onwards. The biggest fear was the cancellation could lead to the closure of Bend Studio, along with Bluepoint, the other studio whose live-service God of War project was also canned…

Israeli forces have besieged a Palestinian government hospital in Jenin and a nearby refugee camp in the heart of the city, as the Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, said the assault marked “a shift in … security strategy” in the West Bank.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Wednesday they had carried out airstrikes in Jenin as well as detonating roadside explosive devices. The Palestinian health ministry said at least 10 people were killed in Jenin, with more than 40 wounded.The Palestinian Red Crescent said its ambulances had been prevented from reaching many of the dead and wounded who lay…

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MELBOURNE, Australia — Ben Shelton’s Australian Open quarterfinal foe, Lorenzo Sonego, produced the shot of the tournament — diving to his left for a volley with so much spin that the ball bounced on one side of the net, then floated back over to the other — but it was the American who ended up with the victory Wednesday. The left-handed Shelton did some entertaining of his own, including earning cheers by doing a couple of push-ups after tumbling in the concluding tiebreaker, and he reached his second Grand Slam semifinal at age 22 by beating the unseeded Sonego 6-4,…