Good morning. Today, we have an entry from our reporter Peter Cowan, who's aboard a 21-day journey on the ship Atlantis along with the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, looking to document two famous shipwrecks. We'll have his account below, as well as a parasite wreaking havoc in the States, and the latest on U.S. strikes on Iran.
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(Alastair Grant/The Associated Press)
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Singer Bonnie Tyler dead at 75
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Bonnie Tyler, the husky-voiced singer best known for the 1983 smash Total Eclipse of the Heart, has died at a hospital in Portugal. She was 75.
What's happening: Tyler was hospitalized in early May in Faro, Portugal, where she lived, for emergency intestinal surgery and was later placed in an induced coma. She died "unexpectedly" Wednesday night, according to her family.
Why it matters: The Welsh-born singer repeatedly hit the charts in the U.K., Canada and the U.S., but is best known for Total Eclipse, a power ballad and rumination on lost love that has never really gone away — passing one billion video views on Spotify and having been covered by the likes of Nicki French, Westlife and One Direction. She had another hit with 1984's Holding Out For a Hero and a year later with Here She Comes.
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The 21-day journey of a lifetime
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By Peter Cowan
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