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.…
Deadly Jebi storm cuts off Kansai airport near Osaka, triggering thousands of evacuations. Japan has been hit by its most powerful storm in 25 years, killing at least 10 people destroying infrastructure. Major international airport Kansai which serves Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto was flooded and shut as the airport lost its link to the mainland…
Over a million revellers turned up at West London over the 59th edition of Bank Holiday Notting Hill Carnival, the world’s second biggest after Rio de Janeiro’s and the largest in Europe to watch Steel drums , dancers and Brazilian music. The London Notting Hill Carnival fell silent for 72 seconds to pay their respect…
The Argentine Pontiff Pope Francis starts a two-day tour taking in a global Catholic Congress tonight at Ireland Cork Park’s 80,000-seat Dublin Stadium with an outdoor mass tomorrow at Phoenix Park, that is expected to draw half a million pilgrims. Superstars like Mick Jagger and Taylor Swift performed here in May and June 2018, respectively. Ireland’s…
Pinarayi Vijayan told the media that unprecedented flood in Kerala have claimed 417 lives with 36 people still missing. He said 7000 houses were destroyed in the floods and another 50,000 partially damaged.