Category: The Saturn Herald
Typhoon Damrey claimed 30 lives and a further 25 are missing, including members of 112 cargo ships that were sunk off the coast of the central province Binh Dinh, according to the Vietnam Management Authority. Despite this , 74 other crew members were rescued. In the province of Khanh Hoa 14 people lost their lives…
An Ambulance has exploded outside a Glasgow hospital after it burst into flames. The vehicle caught fire near Stobhill Hospital at about 13:50 on Wednesday. Firefighters rushed to the scene at the hospital in the north of the city around 13:50 on Wednesday afternoon. “No crew members were injured and our response to patients in…
Allhalloween, All Hallows’ Eve or All Saints’ Eve, is indeed a spooky evening celebrate every year in several countries on October 31 – the eve of Christian feast of all Hallows’ Day. Celtic Pagan festival of Samhain, meaning “Summer’s End” which is celebrated the end of the harvest season. The trick or treat origins emerged…
Carl Safina, a trained seabird ecologist, writes in his new book “Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel”, that much published behavioural science continues to adopt neutral language that downplays animal emotion. This can be actively misleading. We should see the value of using the same language for grief, friendship, joy, empathy and other emotions…
According to Brazil’s Environment Ministry, arson may be the cause of a wildfire that has destroyed more than a quarter of a national park in the central state of Goias during the past two weeks. Over 160,000 acres of the 595,000 acres Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park has burned. The park is a UNESCO World…
An explosion at a firecracker factory industrial complex, in Tangerang, west of the capital Jakarta, in Indonesia on 26th October 2017, killed 50 people and injured dozens according to police. Witnesses said a huge explosion was heard from the factory at around 9:00 am (2:00 GMT), and then several smaller explosions echoed across the surrounding…
David Reitze, Executive Director of the LIGO Laboratory at Caltech in Pasadena, California, said “Scientists have detected the warping of space generated by the collision of two dead stars or neutron stars. This the one we’ve all been waiting for.” They have confirmed that such mergers lead to the production of the gold and platinum…
The 10th edition of an International award that celebrates the work of emerging and established photographers. All profits from entry fees is donated to the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care. Hometown of Robert Frank, Wipkingen, Zurich ( Finalist: single image in Life Category) Photograph: John MacLean Enrique ( Winner Single image in Identity…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said its board “voted well in excess of the required two-thirds majority” to expel Harvey Weinstein following numerous allegations of sexual assault made against the film producer. Weinstein’s films have received more than 300 Oscar nominations and won 81. In a statement the Academy said “not simply…