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20:56 MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday. After clinging on for the entire 1300-kilometer (808-mile) flight to Vnukovo Airport, the boy, named Andrei, collapsed onto the tarmac. His arms and legs were so severely frozen that rescuers were at first unable to remove his coat and shoes, the radio station said. The airport did not confirm the report. "We have no information on this," the Vnukovo press...

A Brooklyn man froze to death in his car after he and his wife spent 32 hours stranded in below zero temperatures upstate. The couple was driving home from a wedding in Montreal when their car crashed off Interstate-87 around 1 a.m. Thursday. Barbara Langner had tried to call for help with her cell phone but couldn't get service. Family members reported them missing, and state police found the couple Friday in their Lincoln Town Car in North Hudson, about 90 miles north of Albany. When authorities found the couple, Alfred Langner – who was 63 – had died of...

Giant popsicle melts, floods New York square NEW YORK What do you get when you mix a 17-ton popsicle with the hot sun on a summer afternoon? New York City fire crews have the answer. They had to close off a number of streets in downtown Manhattan and get out the fire hoses yesterday to wash away thousands of pounds of sticky goo. It was a promotion by Snapple to build the world's largest popsicle. But, the 25-foot tall frozen confection became a kiwi-strawberry mess that flooded Union Square. According to the New York Post, several bicyclists slid in the...

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