Watch the Giant Butt-Shaped Aircraft Crash Into a Field

Sadly, that's exactly what happened to upstart airship Hybrid Air Vehicles, when its massive Airlander 10 aircraft crashed into the ground Wednesday in England. The Airlander 10, or as the Brits prefer to call it, the "Flying Bum," was successfully airborne for 100 minutes before it attempt to land at its base at Cardington airfield in Bedfordshire, England. In a statement, Hybrid Air Vehicles said it would be investigating why and how the incident took place.

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  World's largest aircraft crashes on second test flight, sustains damage

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  World's largest aircraft crashes

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GOP governor: Most drug dealers arrested are black, Hispanic

Republican Gov. Paul LePage is being accused again of making racially insensitive comments, this time by saying photos he's collected in a binder of drug dealers arrested in the state show more than 90 percent of them are black or Hispanic. The governor made the remark at a town hall in North Berwick on Wednesday, a day he also said the father of a dead Muslim U.S. Army captain is a "con artist" for criticizing GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. LePage's comment about the drug dealers came after a businessman asked how he could bring a company to Maine "given the rhetoric you put out there about people of color," the Portland Press Herald reported.

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  LePage: I keep binder of drug dealer pictures

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  White House: Sen. Kirk's 'drug dealer' comment 'outrageous'

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Watch: Iranian Attack-Boats Swarm U.S. Destroyer

Four Iranian attack-boats sped dangerously close to the U.S. destroyer Nitze this week, in a reminder of Iran’s power to disrupt U.S. naval operations in the Strait of Hormuz — the entryway to the Persian Gulf, a strategic waterway through which more oil passes than at any other maritime chokepoint. Video footage shows the vessels swarm in a serpentine formation toward the much larger U.S. craft. The ships belonged to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which maintains its own navy in parallel to that of the regular armed forces.

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  Iranian vessels come within 300 yards of US destroyer

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Why Doctors Without Borders Refused to Negotiate for ISIS Hostage Kayla Mueller

The humanitarian group's USA executive director Jason Cone says they decided not to negotiate for the American hostage's freedom. Kayla was about Doctors Without Borders vehicle when she was captured by crisis in Syria.

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  American ISIS Hostage Kayla Mueller Stood Up to 'Jihadi John' Fellow Captive Reveals

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  Former Hostage Recalls How Kayla Mueller Stood Up to ISIS Guard

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In a Powerpoint, Philippine police detail body count in drug war

By Manuel Mogato and Andrew R.C. Marshall MANILA/BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Philippine police report on an anti-drugs campaign that has killed 1,900 people in seven weeks shows an openness and even pride in an escalating body count that has horrified rights activists and unsettled allies such as the United States. The bloody campaign, launched when President Rodrigo Duterte took office, has reduced crime and won public support, said the report presented to a Senate hearing in Manila on Tuesday. "The government's war on drugs is highly appreciated and supported by the public," the report said.

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  The Philippines' president is accusing the senator investigating his drug war of taking money from drug dealers

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  Philippines summons Chinese envoy over drug trafficking from China

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The 2017 Ford Super Duty Is a Stump-Ripping Monster

The Colorado Rockies are huge, and so are the grilles on Ford's new line of Super Duty trucks. After spending two days with a range of different Super Duty trucks—spanning the heavy-pickup canon from two-door work truck to crew-cabbed dual rear wheel rigs capable of towing more than 30,000 pounds—it was difficult not to walk away from the display with a feeling that Ford knows what it's doing when it comes to trucks. Ford has already sold more than 460,000 F-Series trucks this year.

Iran: Forces will warn any vessel after US warship incident

Iran's naval forces will warn or confront any foreign ship entering the country's territorial waters, the Iranian defense minister said Thursday, remarks that came after an incident this week involving a U.S. warship. The semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted Gen. Hosein Dehghan as saying that "if any foreign vessel enters our waters, we warn them, and if it's an invasion, we confront." He added that Iranian boats patrol to monitor traffic and foreign vessels in its territorial waters. U.S. Navy video of the incident obtained by The Associated Press shows American sailors on the Nitze firing flares and sounding the warship's horn as the Iranian boats approached.

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  US Navy ship fires warning shots after multiple ships 'harassed' by Iranian attack craft

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  U.S.: Navy fired warning shots at Iranian boat

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Does Mazda Have a 400-HP RX-9 In the Works for 2019?

Of all the rumors bouncing around the automotive world, perhaps none is quite as perennial as the story that Mazda will resurrect the rotary-powered sports car from the grave. According to the report, which comes to us from Japanese website Holiday Auto by way of Autoblog, the new RX-9 will be powered by a 1.6-liter twin-rotor Wankel engine assisted by a turbocharger. The report also states that Mazda engineers are shooting for a curb weight of 1,300 kilograms—a hair less than 2,900 pounds, in imperial units.

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  Mazda RX-9 prototype to debut at 2017 Tokyo motor show

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Here's why Italy is prone to devastating earthquakes

UPDATE: Aug. 25, 2016, 8:19 a.m. BST Death toll is at least 247 dead: 190 in Rieti province and 57 in Ascoli Piceno province, according to Italy Civil Protection. Dozens of people were killed in central Italy after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake nearly leveled hilltop towns and trapped residents under piles of rubble. The Wednesday morning earthquake is the latest in a string of deadly seismic events to strike Italy in the past four decades.

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  Italy earthquake: At least 38 dead in 6.2-magnitude tremor

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  Magnitude 3.8 earthquake strikes near Kilauea

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While France Bans Burkinis, Canada Welcomes Hijabi ‘Mounties’

With the possible exceptions of maple syrup and ice hockey, nothing symbolizes Canada quite like “mounties,” the police officers who patrol on horseback Canada’s rugged frontiers and historically wore scarlet tunics, riding boots, and flat-brimmed campaign hats. Now, some of those mounties will also be allowed to wear hijabs, in line with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s efforts to welcome people of different faiths into government service. “This is intended to better reflect the diversity in our communities and encourage more Muslim women to consider the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as a career option,” a spokesman for Canada’s public safety minister told the news wire service Agence France-Presse.

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  Canada's Royal Mounted Police will allow hijabs

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  This Country Now Offers The Option To Wear A Hijab As Part Of The Police Uniform

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