The Mount Sinabung volcano erupted on Thursday afternoon 2nd July 2015, in the Indonesia’s north Sumatra province, spewing columns of smoke 1 .25 miles two kilometers in to the sky. The volcano continues to extrude viscous lava that periodically generates glowing avalanches and pyroclastic flows as the volcano remains at the highest alert level four…
THE ELEPHANT MAN – A “STORY” WHERE TRUTH PERVADES THE WHOLE FABRIC OF THE PLAY. The Elephant Man at The Theatre Royal Haymarket has three actors playing who have been awarded best performance accolades through the Tony awards network. It is running until August 9 2015. Bradley Cooper – an American actor, also known for…
Wimbledon Tennis grounds have been evacuated after a fire alarm, as security staff supervised a swift evacuation of Centre Court and then the entire ground after the close of play on 1st July 2015. Several fire engines attended the scene but there was no indication of either smoke or fire. The cause of the evacuation…
Overnight rain triggered landslides killing at least 40 people, and nine others were reported missing in the Darjeeling hills (India) of West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on 1st July 2015. More people are feared trapped in the mounds mud and debris Both national highways 31 and 10, ripping the road link to Sikkim, as…
Eighty people were stuck for an hour at 17:25 on 1st July 2015, at the Alton Tower after two monorail broke down on the hottest day of the year. Even the Air rollercoaster temporarily stopped for 20 minutes with several people stranded in mid-air. It took another hour to walk 80 people off the monorail…
The airport commission has backed a third Heathrow runway, as it could add £147bn in economic growth and create 70,000 jobs by 2050 and connects Britain to 40 new destinations. The chairman of the independent commission Sir Howard Davies, said that the three proposals they short listed and examined were all “credible” but there was…
A major rescue operation is under way after military transport C-130 Hercules plane, which took off from Polonia airport with 12 crew members and 101 passengers on board crashed in a residential area of Medan in Indonesia. 141 people were killed instantly. The crash site is still engulfed in flames and thick black plumes of smoke…
I dipped into The Prophet by Kahil Gibran to try and find some words of comfort following the tragic mass shooting of holidaymakers in Sousse Tunisia to post on the site and nothing was soothing and deep enough to merit their repetition. So here are some words of my own. There is a popular…
The future is here, with the advent of Internet of Things, a new era of scientific and technological apps that will change life and transform our civilisation. These, includes artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and regeneration of body parts, nano-technologies, robotics, ultra-high speed trains and self-driving cars, Printing, digital security, and slim flexible personal computers.…
A fast local passenger train of Western Railway from Bhayander to Churchgate, in Mumbai, India, overshot the platform three at Churchgate station on Sunday 28th June 2015 at 11:20am 15:50 GMT, and crashed in to the buffers before coming to a stop. The train was speeding 30kmph when it entered the platform when the driver…