Sinkhole traps bus and car at Chennai

A 4.5 meter deep (15 ft), 5 meters long and 2 meters wide, a sinkhole at Chennai’s Anna Salai Road, near Church Park school, India, trapping a car and passenger bus, around 2 pm on Sunday. This could be natural sinkhole caused over hundreds of years from water forging a cavity in the chalk and then…

Brexit Article 50 triggered

Britain triggered Article 50, “an historic moment from which there can be no turning back” Theresa May has aid about departure from the EU. “ I choose to believe in Britain and that our best days lie ahead” Prime Minister Theresa May said speaking after Britain’s EU ambassador formally triggered the two year exit process…

Train run through block of flats

In Chongqing, China,  home to  8.5m people, a light railway track has been designed to run directly through a hole in a 19-storey block of flats, between floors six and eight. The building has been acoustically insulated which does not allow any sound louder than a working dishwasher, as the train only generates 60 decibels.…

5 killed and 40 injured in Terror attack at Westminster

Five people were killed and 40 injured in London on 22nd March 2017, Wednesday afternoon, as a car Huyndai ploughed into pedestrians and the crashed into the barriers of Houses of Parliament. The attacker drove on the pavement on Westminster Bridge, as a woman fell into the River Thames.The driver wielding a  knife fatally stabbed…

Dame Vera Lynn’s 100th Birthday

East-Ham born dame Vera Lynn is 100 years today. Wartime singer Dame Vera Lynne will be the first singer to release an album at 100-years-old and also marks 93 years in the industry. Born on 20 March 1917, Vera Welch is the first British artist to ever to have a number one in America in…

Peru floods kill 67

Peru floods kill 67 and mudslides over the past three days following a series of storms have destroyed 12,000 homes so far this year. Torrential rain triggered flash floods in the Peruvian capital Lima. The intense rain caused by the warming of surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean to continue for another couple of…

Happy St Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day, a cultural and religious celebration held around the world, on 17th March, the traditional Christian feast day in the early 17th century and death date of Ireland’s foremost patron Saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick (385-451 AD). Since 1961, St Patrick has also been regarded as a patron saint of Nigeria, who has…

Mt Etna Erupts, Eight Injured

Mount Etna in Sicily, one of Europe’s tallest and the most active volcanoes in the world erupted spewing lava up in the sky in the early hours of Thursday 16th March 2017, after eight tourists suffered minor injuries. Lava flow mixed with steam had caused a huge explosion, pelting boiling rocks and steam. Mount Etna,…

War of titans: Samsung Galaxy S8 and iPhone8 fight for the top spot

Samsung and Apple are getting ready to launch their latest product Galaxy S8 and iPhone 8 also known as iPhone ‘Edition’) being 10th Anniversary of iPhone. Samsung Galaxy S8  will aim to capture a much higher demand than its predecessor Galaxy S7 after their flagship smartphone Galaxy Note7 was withdrawn from the market due to faulty…