Jair Bolsonaro (63), as known as “Tropical Trump”, Brazil’s new president and his wife Michelle wave to the 115, 000 people who lined the streets as they are driven to his swearing-in ceremony in Brasilia’s Cathedral to the Congressional building, yesterday. Brazil’s 38th President in his inaugural speech, he promised to combat corruption, restore traditional…
Debris from a freight train possibly a tarpaulin hit a commuter train running from Odense to the capital Copenhagen at 7:35 local time (6:35 GMT), as a result of heavy storm, forcing it to brake suddenly on the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark killing 6 people and injuring 16. Rescuers working to free 100 passengers…
Auckland in New Zealand was the first major city to launch its fireworks and said goodbye to 2018 and welcomed in the New Year with a bang. London is open fireworks light up the capital as over 100, 000 people lined the banks of the Thames and saw eight tonnes of fireworks set off from…
70 people have died and over 20 missing after super powerful storm Usman struck the Bicol region in the Benquet province, southeast of capital Manila, Philippines on Saturday. People did not take precautions as the storm which brought in heavy rain and triggered landslides was not classed as a typhoon under the government’s alert system.…
Vinci the French infrastructure group has bought a majority stake in Gatwick airport for £2.9bn taking control of world’s busiest single-runway airport just after it was brought to a standstill by drone sightings in the near vicinity. Under the deal Vinci will take a stake of 50.01 per cent in a Gatwick airport that handled…
Mount Etna eruption on Monday followed by two earthquakes in Sicily just north of the city of Catania, injuring dozens of people and several buildings damaged in villages nearby. 4.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Sicily causing villagers to flee in panic. On Monday Mount Etna erupted injuring 10 people damaging churches and houses on the volcano’s…
The death toll following the tsunami caused by the Anak Krakatau volcano eruption in Indonesia has risen to 45 with over 150 still missing and 16, 000 have been displaced. And the town smashed to pulp in minutes.
Eighty-two year-old Pope Francis, as head of the Roman Catholic Church spoke out while leading a service in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican for the traditional Christmas Eve Mass urged more “sharing and giving”, denouncing the “insatiable greed” of modern consumerism. He called on people in developed countries to live a simpler and less…
Former Liberal Democrats leader Paddy Ashdown has died at the age of 77. Jeremy John Durham Ashdown popularly known as Paddy Ashdown, a former Royal Marine officer, was first elected leader of the Liberal Democrats, a party then badly in need of military-style discipline. He was born in Delhi, India, on 27 February 1941, into…