German, 70, rescued after week in glacier crevasse
VIENNA: Austrian mountain rescuers on Tuesday extracted a 70-year-old German man claiming to have been stuck for around a week in a glacier crevasse, police said, calling it incredible that he was still alive. The climber, who has not been named, was only slightly injured after his ordeal although he was very cold and exhausted. He was airlifted to hospital in Innsbruck in western Austria by helicopter. He told rescuers that he had set off around a week ago without crampons and that around 3,000 meters up he had slid into the 20-meter crevasse. Other mountaineers were eventually alerted by his cries and called in rescuers. “It is a sensation that he survived there for a week,” police said. “He was very lucky.”
US population reaches pi milestone, officials say
WASHINGTON: The US population reached a number dear to mathematicians on Tuesday: 314,159,265 or pi times 100 million. “So go out and celebrate this American pi,” quipped the US Census Bureau’s chief demographer, Howard Hogan, in a statement marking the milestone. “This is a once in many generations event,” Hogan added in the release that reminded readers that “pi is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.”
The landmark was reached shortly after 1829 GMT.
Man accidentally shoots self in Nevada theater
SPARKS, Nevada: Police say a man accidentally shot himself in the buttocks at a Nevada movie theater during a showing of “The Bourne Legacy.” Police in Sparks, Nev., say the 56-year-old man’s injuries are not life-threatening and no others were hurt. Authorities say the man had a permit to carry a concealed firearm. The man told officers the gun fell from his pocket Tuesday night as he was adjusting himself in the seat and that it discharged when it dropped to the floor. Authorities say the case will be sent to the city attorney for possible charges. The incident comes less than a month after a shooting at a suburban Denver theater that left 12 dead and 58 injured.
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