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Niagara Falls (United States) (AFP) - Eclipse mania gripped North America on Monday as a breathtaking celestial spectacle captivated tens of millions of people, offering a rare blend of scientific interest, commercial opportunity and daytime partying. The Moon's shadow plunged the Pacific coast of Mexico into total darkness at 11:07 am local time (1807 GMT) then swept across the United States at supersonic speed, returning to the ocean over Canada's Atlantic coast just under an hour-and-a-half after landfall. Festivals, viewing parties and even mass weddings took place along the eclipse's "pat...
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New York (AFP) - Billed as the place where art meets technology, New York's latest museum is promising to reinvent the format with an "immersive and sensory" experience. The Mercer Labs Museum of Art and Technology features works by Roy Nachum, a painter, sculptor and sound and light designer. Open since January in Manhattan's financial district, Nachum and investor Michael Cayre told AFP they hope to turn a profit from the $35 million they spent on the space, a former shopping mall that has its formal grand opening on March 28. Even for a city as expensive as the US financial capital, which ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The captain of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the California coast in 2019, leaving 34 people dead, has been found guilty of negligence in a US court. Federal prosecutors said late Monday that Jerry Boylan, who captained the Conception, was convicted by a jury of one count of misconduct, or an offense often described as "seaman's manslaughter," and faces up to 10 years in prison. During a Labor Day holiday weekend dive trip in 2019, a fire broke out as guests and crew slept below deck aboard the 75-foot (23-meter) wood-and-fiberglass boat anchored off Santa Cruz ...
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Washington (AFP) - Adventurer Namira Salim became the first Pakistani to travel into space on Friday, riding aboard Virgin Galactic's fifth successful flight in five months, the US company announced. Salim, who previously traveled to both poles and has also parachuted over Mount Everest, was among the first customers to buy a ticket with billionaire Richard Branson's space company after it was founded almost two decades ago. "I love my title 'first Pakistani astronaut,' it's like being a very special princess of the country. Maybe nicer than being a princess," Salim told AFP back in 2012. Virg...
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New York (AFP) - Snapping pictures with cell phones, hundreds of New Yorkers and tourists gathered in the streets to watch the sun set in perfect alignment between rows of the skyscrapers for which the city is famous. Right on schedule at 8:12 pm on Tuesday evening, the flaming orange ball could be seen perfectly framed by Manhattan's canyons of tall buildings on streets running east-west, such as 42nd Street, which runs through Times Square. This spectacle happens four times a year for two days, about three to four weeks before and after the summer and winter solstices. It has come to be know...
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New York (AFP) - After years of trying to expand into other sectors, the CEO of holiday home giant Airbnb, wants to get back to the basics: helping people make money. "I had tried to create too many things at the same time," explained Brian Chesky to AFP. "Then the pandemic occurred. We had to get back to our core business," he said. The sudden halt to world tourism was a shock to the home rental company and forced layoffs of a quarter of Airbnb workforce in 2020. It also snapped the company's foray into travel "experiences", Airbnb's move into tourist activities. The health of Airbnb, along w...
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Miami (AFP) - An American mother was killed by a shark while snorkeling with her family in the Bahamas on a sideline excursion during their cruise, authorities said Wednesday. The 58-year-old woman from the US state of Pennsylvania was attacked Tuesday afternoon in the waters of Green Cay, near the Bahamian capital Nassau, according to Bahamian police. "Tour operators along with family members attempted to rescue the female," police said in a statement. "However, they were unsuccessful; which resulted in the female receiving serious injuries to the left side of her body." When she was brought ...
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Cocoa Beach (United States) (AFP) - Up to 400,000 visitors are expected to flock to the Florida coast on Saturday, hoping to catch a glimpse -- and hear the roar -- of NASA's rocket launch to the Moon. If the uncrewed Space Launch System (SLS) lifts off successfully, it will be not only awe-inspiring but historic for NASA, marking the first of its Artemis missions plotting a return to the Moon. The Kennedy Space Center will be closed to the public, but spectators on local beaches will be able to see the most powerful vehicle that NASA has ever launched climb into the sky. "I remember being a l...
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New York (AFP) - It will soon be forbidden to carry a firearm, even concealed, in the famed Times Square district and other public places in the city and state of New York, authorities announced on Wednesday. New York's legislature passed -- and its Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul signed -- legislation restricting the possession of firearms in sensitive locations earlier this year, and it comes into force on Thursday. It was part of a reaction to a late June ruling by the conservative-majority US Supreme Court that enshrined the right of Americans to leave their homes armed, striking down a 1...
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Merritt Island (United States) (AFP) - Seeing a rocket blast off to the Moon is "a once-in-a-lifetime thing to experience," says Joanne Bostandji. The 45-year-old has traveled all the way from northern England to Florida with her husband and two children for a space-themed vacation, and they're prepared to make sure they don't miss a second of the action as NASA's newest and most powerful rocket is scheduled to launch for the first time Monday. "The plan is to drive very early in the morning and get a spot" on Cocoa Beach, she said, not far from the Kennedy Space Center. "I know it's going ...
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