Sixty people have been killed after a fuel tank exploded following an accident in the city of Cap-Haitien, in Northern Haiti. Some victims went on to gather leaking fuel when it ignited. Local hospitals have been overwhelmed by those injured in the blast, Prime Minister Ariel Henry said the entire Caribbean nation was grieving after…
NatWest contributed to anti-money-laundering failures that involved black bin liners stuffed full of cash being deposited, and sums so large that one branch’s two floor-to-ceiling safes proved “inadequate” for storing it all. The Bradford Jeweller Fowler Oldfield’s predicted annual turnover was £15m when first taken on as a client, but it ended up depositing…
Rescue workers from the National Guards from six states Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missoroi, Mississippi and Tennessee, are desperately searching for survivors scouring through the rubbles in Kentucky. 100-year-old Mayfield First United Methodist Church in Kentucky was destroyed in seconds by the tornado. Over hundred people have died in Kentucky including dozens in a candle factory,…
Vicenta Fernandez, the King of Mexico’s traditional ranchera music, known for classics like “El Rey” and Volver, Volver, has died aged 81. He died on the same day as Mexicans celebrate the Virgin of Guadalupe. Fernandez who was critically acclaimed and had sold tens of millions of records worldwide and began his career singing…
Pictures Laurence Nair-Price Red Bull’s Max Verstappen overtakes Mercedes Benz’s Lewis Hamilton on chaotic last lap to claim first F1 title in Abu Dhabi. Briton’s Mercedes team had two protests against the result rejected by stewards. In the most thrilling with extreme controversial of climaxes to an epic F1 title duel Verstappen and Hamilton’s battle…
When Britain’s post office embraced the digital future, introducing a computer system called Horizon that could be used by staff at its branches, by thousands of sub-postmasters the independent contractors who provided essential services. Horizon designed by Japan’s Fujitsu appeared to have uncovered an epidemic of fraud among sub-postmasters – as 236 of them…
“The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan” assess the West’s similarly failed approach to Afghanistan in military, diplomatic, political and developmental terms and reveals the west’s failure to understand Afghanistan and the ties that bind Afghanistan, and its people underpins the west’s 20-year struggle there. Building on record of the past starts from the first…
The government plans to introduce a law that, starting in 2027, will lift the smoking age by a year every year. New Zealand plans to raise the legal smoking age by one year every year effectively banning the sale of tobacco to people born after 2008. “We want to make sure young people never start…
54 killed as trailer truck carrying over 150 migrants overturns in the state of Chiapas, southern Mexico according to authorities. Victims were strewn across the road adjacent to the overturned truck as 49 people were confirmed d3ad at the scene and further 5 died in hospital, Chiapas Governor Rutilio Escandon said. 105 people were also…
Eighteen-year-old, Amelie Osborn-Smith, from Andover, Hampshire, who was whitewater rafting on the Zambezi river in Zambia when a crocodile clamped on to her leg and tried to drag her under the water on last Tuesday. The teenager said her brain went into “overdrive, and people say that you see your life flash before your eyes,…