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Russia to hold biggest military drills since Cold War
Russia will flex its military muscles and hold the biggest war games since the Cold War era next month, including almost 300,000 troops and 1,000 aircraft, the defence ministry said Tuesday, leading NATO to warn of a “more assertive Russia”. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the exercises would be similar in size to those held in September 1981 by the Soviet authorities, called Zapad-81, or West 81. “This will be something of a repeat of Zapad-81, but in some senses even bigger,” Shoigu said in comments reported by Russian news agencies.
Aftershock hits Venezuela following biggest quake since 1900
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A strong aftershock jolted Venezuela's northeastern coast on Wednesday following the most powerful earthquake to hit the area in more than a century, though officials said neither caused major damage or deaths, apparently due to their depth.
Biggest blaze in California history challenges firefighters
Firefighters struggled against rugged terrain, high winds and an August heat wave Tuesday to slow the spread of the biggest wildfire ever recorded in California, an inferno that exploded to be nearly the size of Los Angeles in just 11 days.
California wildfire: State's biggest blaze on record expected to burn for rest of month
The Carr Fire Is California's Deadliest and Biggest Blaze of the Year (So Far). Here's What to Know
Meghan Markle Just Received a Coat of Arms — and It’s Her Biggest Break in Royal Tradition Yet!
Rudy Giuliani's ABC Interview Was A Mess. Here Are The Biggest Takeaways.
'Avengers: Infinity War' Just Had The Biggest Opening Weekend Ever
World’s biggest active geyser erupts at Yellowstone National Park for third time in weeks
Cow may be biggest mammal if humans keep up extinctions: study
By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) – The spread of humans around the world from Africa thousands of years ago wiped out big mammals in a shrinking trend that could make the cow the biggest mammal on Earth in a few centuries’ time, a scientific study said on Thursday. The spread of hominims – early humans and relatives such as Neanderthals – from Africa coincided with the extinction of mammals such as the mammoths, sabre-toothed tiger and glyptodon, an armadillo-like creature the size of a car. “There is a very clear pattern of size-biased extinction that follows the migration of hominims out of Africa,” lead author Felisa Smith of the University of New Mexico told Reuters of the study published in the journal Science.
