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A man's leg has been completely severed below the knee after he was attacked by a shark while surfing in the Hawaiian waters of Maui.The 61-year-old man was surfing off Waiehu Beach Park on Friday morning when a shark bit him. His right leg was "completely severed just below the knee," Maui County said in a statement.The man was alert while being treated on shore and then taken to Maui Memorial Medical Centre in a critical condition.Police officers had first tried to control the bleeding with tourniquets when they arrived at the scene. The surfer did not see the shark approach, the authorities added.Officials warned people to stay out of the water in the area and closed the beach park, with people being told to stay out of the water for a mile in each direction of the incident will be in e...

"You either hold a weapon or you hold a guitar," says Raji El-Jaru, Gaza's biggest rockstar.Months before war broke out last year, hundreds of people packed into a concert hall to hear his band perform their distinct blend of pounding guitar riffs and impassioned lyrics. "We'll scream our pain; can you hear the call?" he sang to the rapt crowd. "Knock, knock, are you listening at all?"Not long after that gig, Israeli airstrikes rained on Gaza City, tearing down buildings and displacing hundreds of thousands of people.Focused on survival rather than music, the five members of Osprey V - believed to be Gaza's first rock band - went from dreaming of gigging in Europe to wondering if they would ever play together again.Formed back in 2015, the group are all self-taught and cite Metallica and L...

The world's largest captive crocodile has died in Australia.He was thought to be more than 110 years old. Cassius, the 5.48m (18ft) reptile, also weighed over a ton. Image: Pic: Reuters He had lived in a wildlife sanctuary on Green Island near the Queensland tourist town of Cairns in Australia for more than 37 years, according to the sanctuary's Facebook post.The Marineland Melanesia Crocodile Habitat said he had been in declining health since 15 October. Sharing a post of Cassius enjoying a meal in his prime, they wrote: "He was very old and believed to be living beyond the years of a wild Croc."Cassius originated in the neighbouring Northern Territory, where crocodiles are a key part of the region's tourist industry, the ...