Total solar eclipse: North Americans celebrate with cheers, music and matrimony
Updated: 10am (AEST) Niagara Falls, US Reuters Throngs of skywatchers across North America gazed upward at a blackened sun in the midday dusk on Monday, celebrating with cheers, music and matrimony the first total solar eclipse to darken the continent in seven years. From a Mexican beach resort close to where the eclipse made landfall […]
Forecasts for cloudy skies cast shadow over North American solar eclipse
Reuters Cloudy skies forecast for Monday could spell disappointment for many of the millions of North Americans hoping to glimpse the continent’s first total solar eclipse since 2017, possibly turning this spellbinding celestial phenomenon into a dud. Some regions that more typically experience fair skies in April within the “path of totality” – the narrow […]
Updated: Fiery car crash at US-Canada border kills two; terrorism ruled out
Updated: 11:30am (AEDT)Washington DC, USReuters A speeding car crashed in flames on the bridge linking New York state and Ontario at Niagara Falls on Wednesday, killing two people in the vehicle and sparking a security scare that closed four US-Canadian border crossings and Buffalo International Airport. Hours later federal and state authorities said investigators had […]
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