A strong tsunami triggered an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 and waves up to 10feet high swept through Palu on Sulawesi Island. Indonesia’s disaster agency said at least 384 people had been killed, but the number is expected to rise and 540 injured. Last month, a series of deadly earthquakes struck the Indonesian island…
Bees expert safely removed the estimated 20,000 bees from the engine of a low budget Mango Airlines plane at the main airport in South Africa’s coastal city of Durban. The bees populated the engine in less than 25 minutes and delayed three passenger flights at King Shaka International Airport. According Mango Airlines spokesman…
Tiger Woods (42) completed a remarkable comeback to win the season-ending Tour Championship by two shots and record his first win in five years in Atlanta. This victory was his 80th PGA Tour title only fellow American Sam Snead has more – but his first since August 2013. Last year, he was 1, 199 in…
Subran’s house was totally destroyed by the flood was evacuated to a nearby camp, was promised £100 but only got £48 till now. Even after a month has gone by since floods, sitters of 950 shops in Ranni market road are still shut, and their loss amounts to £7.4m, and the traders and shopkeepers have…
Flood followed the tropical storm. North Carolina received 8 trillion gallons of rain from Hurricane Florence and the landscape between the Cape Fear River and the barrier islands of the Carolinas is a waterworld. The floodwaters reached thousands of cesspools containing the waste of 6 million hogs and on Friday the waters ultimately reached a…
Picture by Maria Celia Salgado Hampstead Heath covering 320 hectares (790acres) of grass public area sits on sandy ridge on one of the highest points in London. The Heath has embracing ponds, ancient woodlands, a lido, playgrounds, children’s paddling pool, t three open public swimming pools which were originally reservoirs for drinking water from the…
Naomi Osaka (20) won the US Open 6-2, 6-4 in Flushing Meadows, New York, after an irate Serena Williams accused the umpire Carlos Ramos of being a thief in the US Open Grand Slam Final. Osaka focused to become the first Japanese to win a Grand Slam. Global superstar Serena Williams (36) bidding for a…
This is the story of 1MDB, the Malaysian State investment fund unravelled earlier this year under the scrutiny of several international probes. Whose repercussions travelled from Asia to Hollywood and toppled a government. Founded by Najib Razak, the former Malaysian prime minister who was voted out of office after an election dominated by scandal and…
Island of Hokkaido in Northern Japan has been hit by 6.7 magnitude earthquake triggering landslides that destroyed houses, killing 9 and a further 40 missing. Three million homes have power cut after the power plant was damaged. The tremor struck 39 miles south-east of the regional capital Sapporo in the early hours of the morning.…