At least 15 dead after Lisbon funicular derails and crashes
At least 15 people were killed and another 18 were injured in Lisbon on Wednesday, Sept. 3, when the Elevador da Glória, a popular tourist attraction stretching from the city’s historic district to the Bairro Alto, derailed.
Authorities said the cable car crashed into a building when a cable became loose, according to The New York Times. The accident occurred around 6 p.m. Social media posts and footage showed a flipped car immersed in smoke. This cable line, one of three in Lisbon, has become a symbolic feature of the city.
The world’s biggest iceberg has broken up
The world’s most enormous iceberg, A23a, is breaking into larger chunks as the Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front (SACCF) moves it counterclockwise around South Georgia, according to CNN.
This “megaberg,” which in the 1980s weighed 1.1 trillion tons, has shrunk to 1,700 square kilometers. For more than 30 years, A23a stayed intact on Antarctica’s Weddell Sea floor until 2020, when ocean currents carried it elsewhere.
Tracked by scientists since 1986, the iceberg remains the second largest, but with warmer water temperatures approaching, this crowned iceberg will likely become too small to track, scientists say.
Woman pleads guilty to providing drugs that killed Matthew Perry
The woman accused of providing the fatal doses of ketamine to actor Matthew Perry pleaded guilty Wednesday and faces a maximum of 65 years in prison, according to ABC News.
Jasveen Sangha, 42, is expected to be sentenced Dec. 10. She is the final person convicted in connection with the “Friends” star’s fatal overdose. Perry, 54, was discovered unresponsive in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home.
In addition to Sangha, four other individuals are charged with selling Perry 51 vials of ketamine. Sangha, a dual U.S.-U.K. citizen, has been in custody since her arrest in August 2024. She pleaded guilty in federal court to numerous counts, including maintaining a drug-involved premises and distributing ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury, according to the Department of Justice.
