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A teenager accidentally fired a gun Saturday while shopping at a mall in Georgia, injuring himself.Shoppers at Stonecrest Mall went running after hearing the sound of the gunfire.”We heard a loud bang,” shopper Tameka Thomas told FOX 5 Atlanta. “Like, it shook the building.”GEORGIA MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO KILLING 2 DEPUTIES WHILE SERVING WARRANT According to DeKalb County Police, officers responded to a shooting just after 2:15 p.m. on Saturday. When officers arrived at the mall, they located a 14-year-old boy who had been shot in the leg. He was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Investigators said it appeared…

It has been reported that 10 crews have been tackling a house fire, which broke out late yesterday evening Emergency services are currently at the scene of a major house fire in Cornwall, with 10 crews tackling the blaze. Cornwall Live reported that the house fire broke out on St Thomas’ Road in Newquay late yesterday evening, with the fire brigade and police officers called to the scene at 10:23pm. Crews remain at the scene, battling the fire to try and bring it under control. The raging blaze has been captured on camera by people walking past, with videos and…

The U.S.-crewed spaceflight to the moon on Dec. 7, 1972, was known as Apollo 17 — also known as the final flight of the Apollo program.This particular spaceflight included two historic astronauts: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt. These Apollo 17 astronauts would become — on this day in history, Dec. 11, 1972 — the last humans to walk on the moon thus far. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, DEC. 10, 1869, WYOMING IS FIRST TERRITORY TO GRANT WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTEEugene Cernan was a mission commander who orbited Earth on Gemini 9 and the moon on Apollo 10, according to Britannica. Harrison Schmitt…

As falling temperatures test Europe’s resistance to a winter energy crisis, France has unveiled contingency plans for power cuts — including a stark reminder that in the event of a blackout elevators would be off-limits. But far from reassuring the public, the government’s messaging — which also warns that some emergency telephone numbers could go down — has fuelled concerns over who could be hit and how to protect the most vulnerable. “Right now it’s just raising a lot of questions and causing more panic than the opposite,” said Florence Compte, the headmistress of a primary school in the southern…

The White House’s chief energy adviser has described as “un-American” the refusal of US shale investors to ramp up drilling, even as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine causes havoc on global oil and gas markets.US oil groups have been under pressure from Wall Street to funnel record profits back to investors this year, despite repeated calls by President Joe Biden to pump more oil to help tame rampant inflation. “I think that the idea that financiers would tell companies in the United States not to increase production and to buy back shares and increase dividends when the profits are at all-time…

Bahija Jallal spent her first day as chief executive of Immunocore on the other side of the world from its Oxford headquarters, trying to raise money to keep the biotech afloat. In January 2019, the AstraZeneca veteran headed straight to the JPMorgan conference in San Francisco to convince investors she could reinvigorate the company. It was a tough sell: Immunocore had, in many shapes and forms, been trying to develop a cancer drug for 12 years. The company had raised a huge initial series A funding round of $320mn and then disappointed investors with the drug’s slow progress. “I think…

Europe’s renewable power push will be a “big mistake” unless it significantly increases investment in the continent’s electricity grid to cope with mismatches in supply and demand, warns the chief executive of European energy major Eon.Leonhard Birnbaum, who took over last month as president of Eurelectric, the European electricity industry body, said the accelerated installation of wind turbines and solar panels across the EU as the bloc tries to wean itself off Russian fossil fuels was creating bottlenecks that the grid was not designed to cope with.To support the rapid increase in renewables, Eurelectric estimates that investment in the grid…

Let’s face it. Planning a group trip usually falls to one person and in my friendship group, that’s me. I’m the one who suggests dates, books the venue and plans activities.For 2022, I was dreaming of getting a crowd of friends together for a big group holiday, something I’ve been craving since moving from London to Sicily as an expat. I love friends from home coming to visit but hosting means I become the chef, driver, cleaner and tour guide. Renting a villa would make it a holiday for all of us.I booked our property through Villatravellers, a Sicilian company…

Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth prevailed over Tiger Woods and the top-ranked golfer in the world Rory McIlroy at The Match on Saturday night in Florida.The Thomas-Spieth duo easily won the 12-hole event by a score of 3&2 at Pelican Golf Club.Wood did match Thomas’ birdie on the opening hole of the charity event which benefited Hurricane Ian relief efforts. But, Thomas added a par breaker on the next hole before Spieth did the same on the third hole. A par from Thomas on the fourth allowed him and Spieth to increase their lead. After that, the rest of the…

Four college students have died and three others were injured after the SUV they were in crashed early Saturday in the Maine town of Castine, authorities said.Jerry Paul, president of the Maine Maritime Academy, where all seven attended, said in a statement that he’s devastated. The school is offering counseling to students, faculty, and staff members who may need it, he said.”Our community is grieving for these young lives and for their families,” Paul said.Maine State Police officers who responded to the crash into a roadside tree just after 2 a.m. discovered four people dead inside the 2013 Range Rover,…