A massive landslide in Guatemala killed 80 people and hundreds still missing. Rescue workers are continuing their search today with diggers ploughing through mounds of earth that destroyed over 100 homes in Santa Catarina Pinula about 10 miles east of the capital Guatemala City on Thursday 1st October 2015. According to authorities there are still…
A 35-year old man, Tirumala Rao, abducted Manu Sagar, a four-year-old boy as he walked home from nursery and beheaded in a gruesome “human sacrifice” in a ritual dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kali, in Parkasam, a rural village in Andhra Pradesh in Southern India. He was alleged to be seeking “divine powers”. CH Srikanth,…
11 million Volkswagen vehicles worldwide are involved in the scandal that has erupted over its rigging of US car emissions tests. The state of the art Software that triggers the pollution controls only when the car is being tested for emissions. The German car giant has admitted massaging the emissions tests in the U.S. The Environmental…
Armed police alerted by neighbours surrounded a house where four West End Actors live in Hither Green, South East London where they were rehearsing. The neighbours who overhear a man pleading for his life thought this was a real siege and called in the snipers. Simon Gordon 25 was practising an audition with the window…
The 14 year old Texan schoolboy Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing a home made clock into school on 16th September 2015, by Texas police. Later they have decided not to charge a 14-year-old Muslim boy. Officials at MacArthur High School in Irving alerted police because they thought the device was a “hoax bomb”. Ahmed…
A man in China reportedly bit off his wife’s nose and ate it after she did not answer his calls. The couple, from the city of Dezhou in China, allegedly got into a fight after the woman did not answer her estranged husband’s calls after a late shift at work earlier this week. Enraged, her husband…
Two British tourists dead and 8 injured after the Kalka-Shimla Railway narrow gauge ( 2ft 6in , 762mm) railway train in North- West India, which covers the mountainous region of Himachal Pradesh, derailed at 12:58pm( 5:28 GMT), close to Taksal station, one mile from Kalka. The toy trains cross the longest tunnel 0.78 miles…
Jeremy Corbyn, The Islington North MP has been elected the Labour party’s new leader by a landslide, as je got almost 60% of more than 400,000 votes cast, trouncing his rivals Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall. He was swept to victory on a wave of enthusiasm for his anti-austerity message and promise…
In the Muslim holy city of Mecca, after heavy rain and winds exceeding 51mph (83kmph), a crane has collapsed at 17:23 local time (14:23 GMT) on the Grand Mosque killing 107 and injuring 240 0thers, days before the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Parts of the came tumbling down through collapsed ceiling in on section of the…
Two Nepali women, aged 30 and 50 working as maids at his home near the Indian capital Delhi, say they were starved and sexually abused by him and other Saudi nationals. India has urged Saudi Arabia to cooperate in investigations into rape allegations against a diplomat. The women returned to Nepal on 10th September 2015.…