A Metro train in Kuala Lumpur carrying 213 passengers collided with an empty one in a tunnel near the Petronas Tower and KLCC station, at about 20:45 (12:45GMT). The empty train had just been repaired, and was going in the opposite direction on the same track as the full one. 47 out of 213…
Month: May 2021
https://youtu.be/d1f_9_TGlpI Review of “Fatima” – a Picturehouse film. Review by Penny Nair Price Pilgrims flock to the site of the apparition of The Virgin Mary. Known as “The Miracle of the Sun”, this true story of sightings of an apparition of The Virgin Mary eventually brought thousands to Fatima as word originally spread through Portugal…
Ryanair commercial flight, FR4978 carrying 171 passengers on board, from Athens (Greece) to Vilnius (Lithuania) was diverted to Minsk (Belarus) for several hours, because of a bomb scare on Sunday in order to arrest a dissident journalist ex-editor of the Nexta group, Roman Protasewich, on board. The plane turned east to Minsk shortly before…
BLM activist Sasha Johnson was shot in head in Southwark, London in the early hours of Sunday following numerous death threats. Sasha Johnson a prominent member of TTIP, which has been described as “Britain’s first Black-led political party” rose to prominence after last year’s BLM protests spread around the country. Helping to organise marches and…
Three arrested in Gujarat, western India, with 5.35kg of ambergris (whale vomit) worth over £600, 000. Ambergris is produced in digestive system of Whale of sperm of whales which is used to make luxurious perfumes and musk products. According to local police officials ” The accused told us they have procured the ambergris from Junagadh…
“This morning after lava flows from Nyiragongo volcano eruption, most of Congolese evacuated to Rubavu are returning home/ Rwanda received around 8, 000 people last night”, according to the ministry’s twitter account. Thousands of residents in Goma, a major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, spent the night outdoors following eruption, according to a…
Atletico Madrid win La Liga 2020-21 by 2 points on last day of the season with Real Madrid in second place, after registering a comeback 2-1 win against Valladolid. topping the table with 86 points, against Real Madrid’s 84 points. Thirty-four-year-old, Uruguay international, Luis Suarez’s 21xt goal of the campaign secured a 2-1 win over…
A cable transporting passengers from the resort town of Stresa up the nearby Mottarone mountain in the region of Pidemont, Northern Italy, fell on a mountain near Lake Maggiore after the cable failed about 894ft (300km) from the top of the mountain, Killing 14 people at 12:00 local time (11:00 BST) on Sunday. According…
Bloomberg Journalist, Brad Stone, charts a revelatory and definitive portrait of Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder’s journey to become the world’s richest man and Amazon’s expansion exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries. Its workforce quintupled in size ad its valuation has soared Lowell over a trillion dollars. Jeff Bezos who once…
Seventy one per cent of Americans believe the economy is rigged in favour of the rich starting with tax code. Former BlackRock executive Morris Pearl, the millionaire chair of the Patriotic Millionaires and Erica Payne, the organization’s founder, reveals and engaging and enlightening insider’s tour of th nations tax code, explaining how “the rich” manipulate…