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Updated 9:47 p.m. ET HONG KONG (AP) – A boat packed with holiday revelers collided with a ferry and sank off Hong Kong, killing 36 people and injuring dozens more, authorities said. The boat was carrying staff members of a utility company and their family members to Hong Kong’s famed Victoria Harbour to watch a fireworks display Monday night on the long holiday weekend celebrating China’s National Day and mid-autumn festival. It was carrying about 120 people when it collided with the ferry near Lamma Island 카지노사이트 off the southwestern coast of Hong Kong Island. The government said 25 bodies had been recovered by Tuesday morning and the search was continuing. More than 100 people were rescued and sent to hospitals, and nine had serious or critical injuries, the government’s statement said. “There was a boat that came in close and crashed,” said Yuen Sui-see, director of operations at Power Assets Holdings Ltd., which was using the vessel to take staff on the outing. “After the crash, the other boat continued away, it didn’t stop.” He denied the vessel was overloaded, saying it was carrying 121 passengers and three crew but had capacity for more than 200 passengers. Television channels showed the boat half submerged with the bow pointing straight up. Helicopters circled overhead with searchlights as government vessels surrounded the boat and divers prepared to enter the water....

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On Saturday, it will be 20 years since a relatively unknown band from Washington State released an album that changed the course of rock ‘n’ roll. Nirvana’s landmark recording “Nevermind” challenged the conventions of mainstream music, selling more than 30 million copies in the process. It also propelled the Seattle sound, a raw and honest style of music called grunge, onto the world stage, 실전바둑이사이트 and provided a confused generation with an unlikely anthem. Pictures: Kurt Cobain Elizabeth Keenan, ethnomusicology professor at Columbia University, said of the time when Nevermind was released, “It was one of those really interesting political times. There were the years of Reagan growth, but then in ‘87 there’s the stock market crash, and then in 1990, there’s Operation Desert Storm. There’s this mood of real anxiety — especially for young people. In places like Seattle, this was really characteristic of the mood of the music scene.” Charles Peterson, a grunge photographer said, “Everybody was working really crappy day jobs and driving crappy cars and renting, you know, group houses. Really, no future in sight.” Susan Silver, former manager of Soundgarden and manager of Alice in Chains, said the groups “had to play music.” She said, “It wasn’t to get a record deal, it wasn’t to go on tour, it was — was what they did, what they were driven to do.” Sean Kinney, drummer...

(CBS) Keith Richards. Pete Townshend. Bob Dylan. And now Neil Young. The hard rocking guitarist, soft singing harmonizer and songwriter is getting into the memoir game. According to the New York Times, Young’s book will come out in the Fall of 2012. Called “Waging Heavy Peace,” the Times reports Young has written some parts of the book already. Among the subjects Young covers are growing up, life and music. Young has one No. 1 hit, “Heart of Gold,” which came out in 1972 on the album “Harvest.” He tours frequently, solo and with various bands, including Crazy Horse, Crosby, Stills, 바카라사이트 Nash & Young, and recently, a re-formed Buffalo Springfield. Read more...

Updated at 12:03 p.m. ET (AP) BERLIN – A woman killed her five infants shortly after giving birth in secret at home and in the woods because each time she got pregnant she worried her husband would leave her if she had any more children, authorities said Thursday. The woman, 28, who has been arrested on five counts of manslaughter, made a “comprehensive confession” to the killings after turning herself in as a six-year investigation closed in on her, said Ulrike Stahlmann-Liebelt, the head prosecutor in Flensburg, on Germany’s border with Denmark. Stahlmann-Liebelt said the woman, whose name was not released in accordance with German privacy laws, has two living children, aged 8 and 10. But then in 2006 she began hiding her pregnancies, staying away from doctors and hospitals and killing the infants after giving birth to two at home and three in the woods, 777 무료 슬롯 머신 she said. “She had the impression her husband would leave her if she had any more children, and that’s why she didn’t tell anyone she was pregnant, including her husband,” Stahlmann-Liebelt said. “She has said that the family lived at a certain level of prosperity, that it was clear her husband did not want any more children, and that one reason was to preserve this standard, and she feared that might be endangered if another child were there.” The...