A fire has broken out in the Address hotel with over 56 floors, of which at least 20 floors engulfed in flame in Dubai at 5:00pm GMT . The Dubai Mall has also been evacuated. No injuries reported yet. The Address hotel is near Burj Khalifa hotel and the planned New Years’s eve fireworks display in…
Tian Zeming, a 19-year-old man, migrant worker from Chongqing in south-western China, buried in the rubble after the Shenzhen landslide, has been pulled out alive around 4:00pm local time on Wednesday (20:00 hours GMT Tuesday) after 67 hours. The landslide which stuck on Sunday 20th December 2015 morning after heavy rains, collapsed 30 buildings in…
41 people killed in a bus crash in a ravine in Salta, north of Argentina around 932 miles from Buenos Aires. The bus carrying 60 border patrol officers, part of a convoy of three plunged 50 feet into a dry riverbed after the driver lost control on a bridge. Gustavo Solis, Mayor of Rosario de…
A massive landslide in Guatemala killed 80 people and hundreds still missing. Rescue workers are continuing their search today with diggers ploughing through mounds of earth that destroyed over 100 homes in Santa Catarina Pinula about 10 miles east of the capital Guatemala City on Thursday 1st October 2015. According to authorities there are still…
A 35-year old man, Tirumala Rao, abducted Manu Sagar, a four-year-old boy as he walked home from nursery and beheaded in a gruesome “human sacrifice” in a ritual dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kali, in Parkasam, a rural village in Andhra Pradesh in Southern India. He was alleged to be seeking “divine powers”. CH Srikanth,…
Eight fire crews and more than 30 fire fighters, attended a severe blaze at vehicle repair garage of Central Sports Cars in Stourbridge, West Midlands at around 4:30pm on 17th September 2015. The fire was brought under controlat 7:45pm. It was emerged a total of 10 super luxury cars valued over £600,000 perished and were…
The 14 year old Texan schoolboy Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing a home made clock into school on 16th September 2015, by Texas police. Later they have decided not to charge a 14-year-old Muslim boy. Officials at MacArthur High School in Irving alerted police because they thought the device was a “hoax bomb”. Ahmed…
An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 hit off the cost Chile on 16th September 2015, killing 5 people and a tsunami warning for Chile, Peru and French Polynesia. Waves over a meter triggered by the earthquake have begun hitting Chile’s coastline, flooding the streets near the ocean. Tsunami waves of up 3metres could hit…
A man in China reportedly bit off his wife’s nose and ate it after she did not answer his calls. The couple, from the city of Dezhou in China, allegedly got into a fight after the woman did not answer her estranged husband’s calls after a late shift at work earlier this week. Enraged, her husband…
Jeremy Corbyn, The Islington North MP has been elected the Labour party’s new leader by a landslide, as je got almost 60% of more than 400,000 votes cast, trouncing his rivals Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall. He was swept to victory on a wave of enthusiasm for his anti-austerity message and promise…