Danes foil takeover of ship by pirates
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Danish special forces disrupted a pirate takeover of a cargo ship Friday in the Gulf of Aden, a naval spokesman said.
The crew of the Ariella had seen a skiff approaching their position with six or seven armed men firing at them, said Cmdr. Dan B. Termansen of the Danish warship Absalon. The crew ran to the bridge, where the captain sent out a distress call.
The Ariella's distress call was heard by the Indian warship Tabar, which passed it on to a French plane. The plane confirmed the presence of the pirates on deck.
Termansen dispatched a Replica fendi wholesale team from Denmark's elite Frogmen unit who scaled the sides of the cargo ship, secured the bridge, released the crew and then searched in vain for the pirates.
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2 U.S.-born pandas arrive at new home
CHENGDU, China (AP) -- Two American-born pandas arrived Friday in their new home.
fake rolexSpecial crates carrying Mei Lan, Tai Shan and armloads of bamboo were removed from a cargo jet and onto the tarmac in southwestern China, the start of a breeding mission to keep the endangered species going.
"On the way over they were both OK. Mei Lan was a little nervous, but basically they were both OK," said a tearful Nicole Meese, Tai Shan's longtime keeper at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
Millions of people fell in love with 3-year-old Mei Lan from Zoo Atlanta and Tai Shan, a 41/2-year-old born in Washington, watching them grow up at the zoos and via online cameras.
They were always destined to return to China, under an agreement that says it retains ownership of adult pandas and any offspring.
China lent Tai Shan's and Mei Lan's parents to U.S. zoos for breeding.
Tai Shan's parents are expected to return to China in December 2011, Xinhua reported.
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2 U.S. aid workers die in copter crash
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- Two Florida men contributing to aid efforts in Haiti were killed when their helicopter crashed replica bag wholesale into a mountain in the Dominican Republic, officials and family members said Friday.
Pilot John Ward, 43, of Fort Myers, and co-pilot James Jalovec, 53, of Naples, were returning from Haiti on Thursday night when their helicopter went down in the western Dominican province of Dajabon, officials said.
Jalovec's son Mark said his father and Ward were friends and wanted to do what they could to help the victims of the 7.0- magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti last month.
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