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A GoPro camera captures the moment two skiers rescued another skier buried under feet of snow in Lake Tahoe, California. Carson Schmidt and his friend spotted the man in distress after noticing a pair of skis protruding from the snow. The pair sprang into action, digging him out before he suffocated. "I hope my post brings awareness to the skiing community to ski with a friend," Schmidt said. "You never know where you're going to be." Source link

Islamabad says it is responding to the 'unprovoked fire' with both sides claiming to have inflicted casualties on the other. Source link

Police said the car was meant to be scrapped and the man must have climbed into it without being noticed. Source link

The European Commission stops short of creating a new funding facility to enable women to travel for safe abortions. Source link

Victims rescued from the Athi Rivers complex last September revealed they had signed contracts with an unnamed overseas employment agency, committing to pay up to $18,000 (£13,000) for visas, travel, accommodation, and other logistics, the police said. Source link

A cooling tower of a decommissioned power plant has been demolished in the German town of Grevenbroich, with video capturing the moment the huge structure collapsed.Clouds of white smoke rose into the air, while some of the onlookers present clapped as the controlled explosion took place at the Frimmersdorf power plant.One local said it was "strange" to see the gap left by the missing tower, but that its removal was need to keep up with the times.Georg Bung,…

The terminated FBI staffers all participated in a probe into Trump's handling of classified documents after his first term. Source link

The ruling is temporary, but party co-leader Alice Weidel has already described it as a "major victory". Source link

Predator spyware, marketed by the Athens-based Israeli company Intellexa, can get access to a device's messages, camera, and microphone. Its use was illegal in Greece at that time but a new law passed in 2022 has since legalised state security use of surveillance software under strict conditions. Source link

The former secretary of state recently dropped her longstanding refusal to appear, alongside her former president husband. Source link

As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the 'middle powers' face a grave new challengeWith economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a "rupture" with the post-WW2 order.25 Jan 2026 Source link