Omaha firefighters look for one of two men swept into manhole during a rainstorm. Photograph: Chris Machian/APOmaha firefighters look for one of two men swept into manhole during a rainstorm. Photograph: Chris Machian/APNebraska This article is more than 6 months oldNebraska firefighters rescue two men swept a mile into a sewerThis article is more than 6 months oldThe workers were employed by a private contractor and were swept into a manhole after heavy rain in downtown Omaha

Pakistan cricket team This article is more than 1 month oldPakistan spinner Noman Ali rushed to hospital and ruled out of Test series in AustraliaThis article is more than 1 month oldVeteran ‘stable and doing fine’ after surgery for appendicitisInjury and illness have struck Pakistan ahead of Boxing Day TestPakistan have been hit by a second series-ending withdrawal in as many days, with spinner Noman Ali suffering from appendicitis. Ali, who didn’t play in the first Test, will miss the rest of Pakistan’s series in Australia after undergoing surgery in Melbourne on Saturday.

ArtA new monument has been crafted in Virginia to commemorate the historically black neighbourhood destroyed in 1941 for the construction of the Pentagon William Vollin remembers the games he played as a boy. “Hide and go seek and marbles and ball games and that kind of thing,” he says in a video call. “I never thought I was poor personally because I had a grandmother who worked 30 years or so as a maid and always kept food on the table.

Crime - Australia This article is more than 6 years oldTara Brown murder: Lionel Patea pleads guilty to killing former partnerThis article is more than 6 years oldTwenty-four-year-old killed after Patea ran her car off a Gold Coast road then bludgeoned her to death with a fire hydrant cover Lionel Patea has been jailed for life after admitting the murder of his former partner Tara Brown as the victim’s mother denounced him as a “monster” in a packed courtroom in Brisbane.

ArchaeologyValley of lost cities that flourished 2,000 years ago found in AmazonLaser-sensor technology reveals network of earthen mounds and buried roads in rainforest area of Ecuador Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers about 2,000 years ago. A series of earthen mounds and buried roads in Ecuador was first noticed more than two decades ago by archaeologist Stéphen Rostain.