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Boeing Starliner brings astronaut launches back to Atlas rocket and Cape Canaveral

The launch of astronauts on a Boeing spacecraft will mark a first for the company, but will also bring human spaceflight back to a rocket and launch site after more than 50 years.

Space

Thirty years after apartheid, South Africa’s failed housing promise

Ahead of key elections, hundreds of thousands in need of homes in opposition-run Western Cape languish on waiting lists.

Al Jazeera

The pickled fish dish that unites Christians and Muslims at Easter

Christians eat fish on Good Friday. But in Cape Town the fish is almost always smothered in a sweet curried sauce – and

Al Jazeera

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Queensland man charged with murder of Kowanyama woman he told inquest went ‘walkabout’ 11 years ago

The family of Ms Bernard, who was last seen in Thomas Byrnes’s company in Cape York, say police investigation has been ‘a long sad journey’

The Guardian - AU

How to watch Hightown season 3 online: TV channel, release date, time

Monica Raymund returns for the final season of this gritty, Cape Cod-set crime drama. Our guide explains how to watch Hightown season 3 online and from anywhere now.

Tom’s Guide

How Red Sea attacks on cargo ships could disrupt deliveries and push up prices – a logistics expert explains

Attacks on international cargo ships in the Red Sea from Houthi-controlled Yemen have seen several cargo vessels hit by missiles and drones in recent days.

The Conversation

Watch: Angry cobra makes teeing off difficult for lady golfers

A woman approaching a ladies’ tee box on a golf course in South Africa spotted a rare sight, so she pulled out her phone to capture video.

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Fossil snake traces: another world-first find on South Africa's Cape south coast

Snakes are familiar, distinctive – and often feared – reptiles. And they’ve been around for a long time: body fossils found in the UK, Portugal and the US stretch all the way back to the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago.

The Conversation

‘Lady of the Dunes’ killer identified after nearly 50 years

Guy Rockwell Muldavin, who died in 2002, married Ruth Marie Terry just a few a months before her mutilated body was found on a Cape Cod beach in 1974

The Independent UK

Grapes from the Cape: South Africa’s signature wine styles

From chenin to cinsault, South Africa’s wines are not just cleverly made but great value, too

The Guardian - UK

Cape Cod is one of the world's largest hotspots of great white sharks, study finds

For the first time, scientists have estimated the abundance of great white sharks off the coast of Cape Cod.

LiveScience

Another report of a shark in Cape Cod Bay leaping out of the water to grab striper on fishing line: ‘It was just incredible’

Trying to catch striped bass in Cape Cod Bay these days? You might be competing with an incredibly powerful apex predator.

Boston Herald

'Cursed' beach where Irish man died in paragliding accident claims two more lives in 48 hours

Munster rugby coach Greig Oliver's death on Rocklands Beach stunned locals as for the two following days the Cape Point Promenade was filled with ambulances and police cars and fire engines as two other locals also drowned in the surf.

Irish Mirror

Great whites near Cape Cod shore take center stage in National Geographic's Sharkfest

BOSTON — Hundreds of great white sharks hunting seals close to shore along Cape Cod, and how local researchers are hoping to predict shark behavior, is the focus of a new National Geographic special for Sharkfest next week.

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The Independent UK

'Smartphones' for sharks: Scientists upgrade sensors to keep track of Cape Cod's white sharks

Scientists monitoring the white shark population in the waters off Cape Cod are attaching better sensors to the predators, including cameras

The Conversation

World's oldest _Homo sapiens_ footprint identified on South Africa's Cape south coast

Just over two decades ago, as the new millennium began, it seemed that tracks left by our ancient human ancestors dating back more than about 50,000 years were excessively rare.

ABC News

$500k reward announced for information in Cape York missing persons case

Police hope someone will come forward with information on a woman who disappeared while travelling in Cape York more than 10 years ago.

Daily Mirror

Deadly cobra in plane cockpit slithers up pilot's shirt forcing him into emergency landing

Pilot Rudolph Erasmus was flying the private jet when he felt a "cold feeling" on his back - initially thinking the sensation was his water bottle before seeing the beady eyes of a Cape cobra

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He felt the slither of a venomous snake in the cockpit — then turned the plane around

South African pilot Rudolf Erasmus made an emergency landing after discovering a Cape cobra accompanying him in the cockpit on Monday. The snake has not been found again since the plane landed.

The Conversation

New discovery: fossilised giant zebra tracks found in South Africa

Tens of thousands of years ago, a huge horse species walked, trotted and galloped across the shifting sands of what is today South Africa’s Cape south coast.

Salon

How a water crisis catalyzed Cape Town

Between 2016 and 2018 Cape Town experienced the real possibility of "Day Zero," the day when the taps would run dry

The Conversation

Cape Town's 'Day Zero' threat concentrated minds: an activist group used the moment to secure environmental victories

Major cities across the world are being increasingly plagued by severe water shortages. From Bangalore, India to São Paulo, Brazil and even Beijing, China, cities are at risk of drought in the near future.

Tribune News Service

Buck Showalter’s connection with Thurman Munson

In 1976, a 20-year-old Buck Showalter was spending the summer in Cape Cod, working as a short-order cook and playing for the Hyannis Mets.

Boston Herald

Movie review: Gritty ‘How to Rob’ a winning debut from writer-director Peter Horgan

BOSTON — Shot in 12 days in Boston and on the Cape and recipient of audience awards as IFFBoston and the New Hampshire Film Festival, “How to Rob” is the gritty feature debut of Boston writer-director and Emerson graduate Peter Horgan. The film tells the story of Boston boyhood friends…

Daily Mirror

Amazing places in South Africa as holidays become cheaper than ever for Brits

Visitors to South Africa have plenty of big, cultural cities such as Johannesburg and Cape Town to get stuck into, as well as fames wildlife parks such as Kruger

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