Dana, Jordan – At dawn, blue and pink rays start to break over Dana’s mountain ridges. Birdsong and rustling leaves are the only sounds in the valley.
Spread over 300sq km (116sq miles) from towering sandstone cliffs to desert plains, the Dana Biosphere Reserve is Jordan’s largest and most diverse protected region but its days of quiet and natural beauty may be numbered.
The Jordanian government, claiming there are an estimated 45 million tonnes of copper in Dana, says it’s going to mine in the area. Read More...
Love Island's Mackenzie Dipman and Connor Trott are going their separate ways. The pair, who met last year on season 2 of the reality show, announced their split in a joint statement on Saturday. "Some of you have been wondering about us and our relationship, so we want to help you to understand where we are right now," they wrote. "We are both young and in the early stages of our careers, and sadly those careers are keeping us in two different places. Read More...
Almost four years ago at age 17, Marco Tulio Flores confessed to killing the man who sexually abused him as a boy by strangling him with a dog chain at his Boston apartment in May 2011.
After killing Jaime Galdamez and recording it on video, Flores doused his abuser's body with lighter fluid and set it ablaze after removing computers loaded with child pornography from the home.
Flores, who confessed to killing the older man and then pleaded pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, spoke out from his home at Souza-Baranowski maximum security prison. Read More...
