A powerful earthquake hit Croatia, at 11.19 am, the 2nd quake in the past 2 days., killing at least seven people including a 12-year-old girl with several others injured, and caused considerable damage to buildings in Petrinja, a town southeast of the capital Zagreb. The 6.4 magnitude earthquake downed phone lines as the tremor was…
Heavy rain and high winds lashed parts of UK by 106 mph Storm Bella. The Met Office issued yellow warnings for snow and ice for parts of Wales, North-west England, Scotland and the entire Northern Ireland. The Ports of Dover and Calais have warned Channel crossings were also being affected by weather, with strong head…
Pope Francis in a Christmas Day address delivered online for the first time from a lectern in a chamber inside the Vatican, the pontiff warned against putting up walls to treatments by calling on world leaders to ensure unfettered access to coronavirus vaccines for everyone. The pandemic meant this year the annual Urbi et Orbi…
France has partially lifted Trade and Travel restrictions as the military is helping with mass Covid testing in Kent amid port chaos as 10, 000 angry lorry drivers clash with police and demand to be let across the channel. French President Macron had wanted lab-processed PCR tests which can take up to 72 hours before…
Larry Tesler, an Apple employee who invented cut, copy, and Paste, dies aged 74 Computer scientist, Lawrence Gordon Tesler Larry, an American computer scientist played a vital role in the development of a range of Apple products serving as Vice President of AppleNet and Apple’s Advanced Technology Group. Born in Bronx, New York, on 24th…
Two men guilty of manslaughter in 39 Vietnamese migrant lorry deaths Two men Eamonn Harrison (24) who dropped off the trailer at the Belgian port, and people smuggler Gheorghe Nica (43) were found guilty of the manslaughter of all 39 Vietnamese migrant lorry deaths in Essex last year and were convicted by an Old Bailey…
More than 1, 000 vehicles have been stranded on the Kanestu expressway, which connects the capital Tokyo to Niigata in the north, for two days after a heavy snowstorm in Japan. The snowstorm also caused misery for 10, 000 homes in the north and west as they were without power/ The gridlock began when a…
Apparently, some has shipped live crab – decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura) in a baggage hold as countless crabs invaded a luggage carousel at the Kingston Airport in Jamaica, a spectacular scene for lots of passengers. Most of these fragile and helpless creatures got stuck on the moving metal belt despite their sturdy shell…
Two oil wells in an oilfield in northern Iraq were set ablaze using explosives in a terrorist attack the oil ministry said, Technical teams, isolated the two burning wells, and the overall production from the field was not affected, according to two sources. The production from the two wells was targetted didn’t exceed 2, 000…