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Volkswagen fined $125 million for misleading customers about emissions | A Victorian man who flew from Brisbane to Hobart on flight VA702 today has tested positive to COVID-19 and has not been allowed to board a flight to Melbourne
A Watch & Act warning is in place for a fire in the northern parts of Mokine, in WA's Northam Shire. Keep up to date with ABC Emergency
Volkswagen has been hit w... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Moranbah mine explosion leaves five people in serious condition | Five people have serious injuries after an explosion at Grosvenor coal mine at Moranbah in central Queensland's Bowen Basin. The patients suffered burns to their upper bodies and airways and were taken to Moranbah Hospital in a serious condition. Ambulance crews were called to the scene just after 3:00pm and multiple r... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Some businesses closed, others offering to help amid widespread power outages | John Bright of Fort Gratiot knows what it’s like to sit in a house without power, so with power outages affecting thousands in St. Clair County, he’s opening his business to the community. In a Facebook post Thursday morning , Bright invited people to come to his Port Huron Township business, Bright Bargains Trade Cent... | Organization Closed | null | null |
2019 Men's EuroHockey Championship IV | The 2019 Men's EuroHockey Championship was the 17th edition of the EuroHockey Nations Championship, the biennial international men's field hockey championship of Europe organised by the European Hockey Federation. It was held alongside the women's tournament from 16 to 24 August 2019 in Antwerp, Belgium. [1][2] The tou... | Sports Competition | null | null |
COVID-19 tracker: Total Japan-wide cases top 1.5 million, up 500,000 in month | People line up in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Saturday to obtain a lottery ticket to get vaccinated against COVID-19. | KYODO Staff report, Jiji Sep 1, 2021 The cumulative number of new COVID-19 cases nationwide topped 1.5 million on Wednesday, in the latest sign of just how quickly the virus is spreading under the lates... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
5,000-year-old relic from the Great Pyramid discovered in a cigar box in Scotland | Late last year, curatorial assistant Abeer Eladany was reviewing items in the University of Aberdeen's museum collections, when she came across an item that didn't seem to belong. Eladany, who is originally from Egypt and had spent a decade working at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, noticed the country's former flag on a... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
TheJakartaPost | Two centuries-old shipwrecks packed with ceramics and other artefacts have been found off Singapore in a rare discovery that will shed light on the city-state's maritime heritage, archaeologists said Wednesday. The prosperous island nation has long been a key trading hub on global shipping routes connecting... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Crops and livestock 'polluted' by plastic along Port Wakefield Road |
Farmers are considering their legal options after rubbish associated with trucks offloading at a dump in Adelaide's north was blamed for polluting grain and potentially causing the death of livestock.
The shoulder of the Port Wakefield Road highway from Bolivar to Dublin is littered with plastic and rubbish, creating ... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Northern Lights could add spooky flare to Halloween weekend skies | A file photo of the aurora borealis, captured when the International Space Station saw Northern Lights over the midwestern United States. NASA A storm that started more than 92 million miles away is sending a spooky light snow to skies above the Pacific Northwest — and across the northern third of the rest of the Unite... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
2018 PDC World Darts Championship |
The 2018 William Hill World Darts Championship was a darts event, held between 14 December 2017 and 1 January 2018 at the Alexandra Palace in London, United Kingdom. It was the 25th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation. Michael van G... | Sports Competition | null | null |
2015 Tajikistan earthquake | On December 7, 2015, an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the moment magnitude scale struck Tajikistan 105 km (65 mi) west of Murghab at 07:50 UTC at a depth of 26.0 km (16.2 mi). [1] The earthquake was also felt in neighboring Xinjiang in China, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan.
The earthquake was felt with int... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Hapag-Lloyd Flight 3378 crash | Hapag-Lloyd Flight 3378 (HF-3378) was a passenger service operated by Hapag-Lloyd Flug from Chania, on the island of Crete, Greece, to Hannover, Germany. On 12 July 2000, the aircraft flying the route, an Airbus A310-304, registration D-AHLB, with 143 passengers and 8 crew on board, set off for Hannover leaving the lan... | Air crash | null | null |
2009 Shizuoka earthquake | The 2009 Shizuoka earthquake occurred with a magnitude of 6.4 [1][2] that hit Shizuoka Prefecture in the south of Honshū, Japan, on August 11 at 05:07 local time (August 10, 20:07 UTC). The seismic intensity was observed as shindo 6- in Izu, Yaizu, Makinohara, Omaezaki, Shizuoka. [3]
One woman was killed in Shizuoka, 1... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 crash | Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 (Registration EC-FBC), on 29 August 2001, crash-landed next to the N-340 highway, some 200 metres short of runway 32 at Ruiz Picasso International Airport at Málaga, Spain. The captain reported a fire in the aircraft's port engine to Málaga Air Traffic Control while on its final approach... | Air crash | null | null |
2011 eruption of Grímsvötn | The 2011 eruption of Grímsvötn was a Plinian eruption of Grímsvötn, Iceland's most active volcano, which caused disruption to air travel in Northwestern Europe from 22–25 May 2011. The last eruption of Grímsvötn was in 2004,[2] with the previous most powerful eruptions in 1783, 1873 and 1902. [3][4] The Grímsvötn erupt... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Satellites Monitor Unpredictable Explosive Behavior of Mount Etna – Europe’s Most Active Volcano | This image, captured on April 2, 2021, by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, shows the latest activity in Italy’s Mount Etna. The image has been processed using the mission’s shortwave-infrared band to show the ongoing activity in the crater. Smoke plumes can be seen blowing eastwards towards the town of Giarre. Credit... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
American Airlines Flight 293 crash | American Airlines Flight 293 was a regularly scheduled flight which was hijacked by Nikola Kavaja, a Serbian nationalist and anti-communist, on June 20, 1979. During the hijacking Kavaja demanded and received another airplane with the intent of crashing it into the headquarters of the Yugoslav Communist Party. Nikola K... | Air crash | null | null |
Mahabad riots | 1945–2000
21st century
On 7 May 2015, ethnic Kurds rioted in Mahabad, Iran, following the unexplained death on 4 May 2015 of Farinaz Khosravani, a 25-year-old Kurdish hotel chambermaid. Khosravani fell to her death from a fourth-floor window of the Tara, the hotel where she worked. Anger mounted following reports tha... | Riot | null | null |
Harry Styles cancelled his Vancouver concert and fans are devastated | Pop star Harry Styles was set to play Vancouver at Rogers Arena on Aug. 16, 2021, rescheduled from 2020. Now the UK singer has re-announced his tour, and it features only U.S. dates. Harry Styles / Facebook What's the opposite of a "Watermelon Sugar" high? Whatever it is, it's what Vancouver fans of British pop star Ha... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Ancient Gilgamesh 'dream tablet' to go back to Iraq | UN and US officials will return a stone inscription bearing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh to their counterparts from Iraq at a ceremony in Washington this week. The 'dream tablet' is imprinted with cuneiform script UNESCO officials will return a stone inscription bearing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldes... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Suspected serial bank robber arrested by FBI, Salt Lake City police | SALT LAKE CITY — A man accused of at least four bank robberies — including the same bank three times — has been arrested by the FBI and Salt Lake City Police Department investigators, officials said. Edward Begley, 64, of Salt Lake City, was taken into custody Tuesday. Begley was seen leaving U.S. Bank in a black Nissa... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
COVID-19 in schools: See which Tennessee districts are closed amid outbreaks, staffing shortages | Barely a month into the new school year, several Tennessee school districts already have shuttered schools because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Staffing shortages and hundreds of confirmed cases among students are driving these choices, even as the state says entire districts cannot pivot to remote learning ... | Organization Closed | null | null |
‘The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic’ Wins Top Awards at El Gouna Film Festival | Teemu Nikki’s Venice and Antalya winner “The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic” won the Golden Star for best film at the 5th El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt, which wrapped Friday. The award carries a cash prize of $50,000. The film’s lead Petri Poikolainen won best actor, while Maya Vanderbeque, the young star ... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
BREXIT – The UK has left the European Union | Anti-Brexit Demonstrators wave the British Union flag and the European Union (EU) flag outside the Houses of Parliament in London, U.K., on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered an historic defeat in Parliament and the showdown over Brexit continues today in the House of Commons. BREXIT ... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Olympics: Jacobs first Italian to win Men's 100m final | Lamont Marcell Jacobs has made Olympic history by becoming the first Italian to win the Men's 100m final which was held in Tokyo today, Sunday 1 August.
Jacobs won the race with a time of 9.80 seconds after qualifying for the final by setting a new European record of 9.84 seconds.
The race, which featured a new generat... | Break historical records | null | null |
Brock Holt -- Brock Holt! -- Makes History With Baseball's First Playoff Cycle | NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 8: Brock Holt #12 of the Boston Red Sox high fives teammates after hitting a... [+] home run during the inning of game three of the American League Division Series to hit for the cycle against the New York Yankees on October 8, 2018 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo ... | Break historical records | null | null |
2012 Mexico Learjet 25 crash | On 9 December 2012, a Learjet 25 business jet carrying five passengers including American singer Jenni Rivera crashed south of Monterrey, Mexico, minutes after taking off from the city's international airport. All aboard, including two crew members, were killed. [1]
The subsequent investigation was unable to determine... | Air crash | null | null |
Armand Duplantis breaks Bubka's outdoor pole vault world record | Another day, another record - Armand Duplantis at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea meet in Rome. - Getty Images Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis broke Sergey Bubka's 26-year-old outdoor world record on Thursday.Duplantis cleared 6 meters, 15 centimeters (20 feet, 2 inches) at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea meet in... | Break historical records | null | null |
TWA Flight 553 crash | Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 553 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15 jet airliner, registration N1063T, operated by Trans World Airlines in American airspace en route from Pittsburgh to Dayton. While descending toward Dayton about 29 miles from the airport, the flight collided in midair with a Beechcraft Baron (a smal... | Air crash | null | null |
2014 Masters (darts) | The 2014 Unibet Masters was the second staging of the non-ranking Masters darts tournament, held by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). It was held between 1–2 November 2014 at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. Phil Taylor was the defending champion, having beaten Adrian Lewis 10–1 in the inaugura... | Sports Competition | null | null |
4,200-year-old queen's identity among remarkable new finds in Egypt | Cairo — Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities has revealed details of the latest landmark discoveries to emerge from the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo. The vast burial grounds sit in what was once Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt. The UNESCO World Heritage Site is home to more than a dozen pyramids, includi... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Acute hunger set to soar in over 20 countries | Acute hunger set to soar in over 20 countries, warn FAO and WFP: call for urgent and at-scale action to avert rising hunger and risk of famine ROME -- Acute hunger is set to soar in over 20 countries in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up assistance, warn the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and ... | Famine | null | null |
Dominican Republic Signs Agreement with the World Bank to Curb Carbon Emissions and Reduce Deforestation | With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries.
The World Bank Group works in every major ... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
2027 World Women's Handball Championship | The 2027 World Women's Handball Championship, the 28th event hosted by the International Handball Federation, will take place in Hungary in 2027. [1] It will be the main qualifying event for the women's handball tournament of the 2028 Summer Olympics. [2]
The bid includes the following four host cities/venues:
^ 1. T... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Property spruiker Rick Otton and We Buy Houses fined record $18 million for 'peddling false hope' | Property spruiker Rick Otton and We Buy Houses fined record $18 million for 'peddling false hope'
A Victorian man who flew from Brisbane to Hobart on flight VA702 today has tested positive to COVID-19 and has not been allowed to board a flight to Melbourne
A Watch & Act warning is in place for a fire in the northern pa... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Georgian riot police use tear gas, water and sonic cannons to break up thousands of anti-government protesters | Images broadcast around the world revealed armed officers blasting crowds with a high-pressure water cannon. A few minutes later, police fired tear-gas canisters and rubber bullets to scatter demonstrators.
There is also video footage of masked riot police clubbing unarmed protesters before putting them into police va... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Northern Lights visible in Scotland tonight after solar storm - exact time to see it | Scots will be treated to the night time spectacle once again this evening. Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter Scots will be able to catch another glimpse of the Northern Lights this evening, according to forecasters. A strong geomagnetic storm from the sun arrived o... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
At least nine people have been killed in a militant attack on a sports match in Afghanistan's turbulent eastern Paktika province. | At least nine people have been killed in a militant attack on a sports match in Afghanistan's turbulent eastern Paktika province.
Dozens of people were also wounded in the attack but no group has yet said it carried out the attack. It came on the same day 300 fighters allied to so-called Islamic State attacked checkpoi... | Armed Conflict | null | null |
Dave Chappelle, Joe Rogan concert scheduled for New Orleans this weekend is postponed | Even though much of New Orleans could use a laugh right about now, the Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan show scheduled for Saturday (Sept. 4) at the Smoothie King Center has been postponed. In addition to the obvious reason — the damage and power outages across south Louisiana caused by Hurricane Ida — there is another com... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Worli riots |
The Worli riots refers to the violence that occurred in the chawl, or tenement, in the Worli neighborhood of Mumbai between January and April 1974. The riots began on 5 January 1974 after the police attempted to disperse a rally of the Dalit Panthers that had turned violent. Regular clashes between the Dalit Panthers... | Riot | null | null |
1961 Scotch Cup |
The 1961 Scotch Cup was the third edition of the men's World Curling Championship. It was held across four venues: Ayr, Kirkcaldy, Perth and Edinburgh, Scotland. The tournament began with games in Ayr on 21 March. The second and third days were on 22 and 23 March in Kirkcaldy, and the fourth day was in Perth on 24 Ma... | Sports Competition | null | null |
FedEx Express Flight 630 crash | FedEx Flight 630 was a regular scheduled cargo flight from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Memphis International Airport, Memphis, Tennessee. On July 28, 2006, the McDonnell Douglas MD-10-10F
operating the flight, crashed upon landing due to a landing gear failure. [1] The main left undercarriage collapsed seve... | Air crash | null | null |
UN chief warns of famine in Yemen, urges halt to violence | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Friday that Yemen could face "the worst famine we have seen in decades" and urged the country's warring parties to immediately halt the violence. The UN chief told reporters "the urgency of the humanitarian crisis leaves no room for complacency" and the "building wave of mom... | Famine | null | null |
the economic losses caused by an oil spill near a world heritage-listed area of Solomon Islands last year could be as high as $AUD 50 million |
A confidential report estimates the economic losses caused by an oil spill near a world heritage-listed area of Solomon Islands last year could be as high as $AUD 50 million.
More than 300 tonnes of heavy fuel oil spilled from the damaged hull of the bulk carrier MV Solomon Trader after it ran aground on Rennell Isla... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
‘Our Children Will Starve’ Say Pakistan Farmers as Locusts Breed | A desert locust feeds on wheat crops near the village of Nur Gamma in Balochistan province, Pakistan, on March 6. Government seeks help from China to defeat pests that have destroyed thousands of acres. Three swarms of locusts this year have all but wiped out Saadullah Zehri’s wheat crop on his small farm in the mount... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
‘Don’t take it lightly’: Coast mom still enduring effects of COVID-19 after spending 53 days in hospital | ‘Don’t take it lightly’: Coast mom still enduring effects of COVID-19 after spending 53 days in hospital Taylor Manning was 35 weeks pregnant when she tested positive for COVID. It would be another seven weeks before she finally got to meet baby Maevi. OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - At the height of the Delta variant t... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
Texas man drives dealership loaner to rob bank to buy BMW: feds | Everything is bigger in Texas, including the boldness of one thief’s brazen scheme to get himself a BMW. Eric Dion Warren, 50, drove a car dealership loaner to a bank, robbed the bank and then drove back to the dealership to use the stolen money to buy a Beemer, federal prosecutors said in a press release. He was sente... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Banana massacre | The Banana Massacre (Spanish: Matanza de las bananeras or Spanish: Masacre de las bananeras[1]) was a massacre of United Fruit Company workers that occurred between December 5 and 6, 1928 in the town of Ciénaga near Santa Marta, Colombia. A strike began on November 12, 1928, when the workers ceased to work until the co... | Strike | null | null |
Ex-Ireland rugby player charged with stealing almost €600,000 from BOI | Brendan Mullin, of Albert Lodge, Stillorgan Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, leaving Dublin District Court on Tuesday. Photograph: Collins Courts Former Irish rugby international Brendan Mullin is to face trial accused of deception, false accounting and theft of close to €600,000 fr... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Sunak’s tax giveaway fails to spur a speedy economic recovery | The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is due to convene on 20th September 2021. The Monetary policy Committee (MPC) will be announcing its policy rate after retaining it since March 2020. As the world deals with the uncertainty of the delta variant along with the dilemma between inflation and growth, it is a plenary to watc... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
2017 Pohang earthquake | The 2017 Pohang earthquake, measuring magnitude 5.4 on the moment magnitude scale, struck Heunghae, Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea on November 15 2017. [2] It is tied with the 2016 Gyeongju earthquake as the country's strongest earthquake in modern history. The earthquake, along with several aftershocks... | Earthquakes | null | null |
1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake |
The 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake[4] (also known as the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake[4]) occurred on August 17[4] at 11:37 pm (MST)[5] in southwestern Montana, United States. The earthquake measured 7.2 on the Moment magnitude scale,[1] caused a huge landslide, resulted in over 28 fatalities and left US$11 million (equiv... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Morocco to Participate in Naval Exercise in Tunisia | Rabat - Morocco and 11 other countries will participate in a naval exercise hosted by the Tunisian armed forces between May 17 and 28.The 2021 Exercise Phoenix Express, will be the 16th iteration of the North African maritime exercise. This year it is set to take palace off the coast of Tunis, the Tunisian capital, as ... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Minas Gerais suffered a mine collapses | BRUMADINHO, Brazil (AP) — Firefighters on Monday carefully moved over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies, four days after a dam collapse that buried mine buildings and surrounding neighborhoods with iron ore waste. The confirmed death toll rose to 58, with up to 300... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Toxic foam spill: Federal Government may consider phasing out chemical after Brisbane airport spill |
The Federal Government has flagged the possibility of phasing out a potentially harmful chemical used in firefighting foam in the wake of a spill from a Qantas hangar into the Brisbane River.
Thousands of litres of the foam leaked into the river from a Qantas hangar at Brisbane's airport last week, killing fish and sp... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Paris Hilton Is Married—Plus, Every Celebrity Wedding of 2021 So Far | Things are starting to look up—the vaccine rollout is underway, small weddings are beginning to feel safe again, and couples are starting to plan larger weddings for the rest of 2021 and beyond. And of course, our favorite celebrity couples are no exception. Plenty of celebrities have decided to tie the knot in secret ... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Court Line Flight 95 crash | Court Line Flight 95 was an international charter flight from London Luton Airport, Bedfordshire, England, to Munich-Riem Airport, West Germany, operated on 18 April 1974 by Court Line (Aviation) Ltd BAC One-Eleven 518 G-AXMJ. During its take-off run, Piper PA-23 Aztec G-AYDE of McAlpine Aviation entered the active run... | Air crash | null | null |
2021 eruption of La Soufrière |
La Soufrière, a stratovolcano on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, began an effusive eruption on 27 December 2020. On 9 April 2021 there was an explosive eruption, and the volcano "continued to erupt explosively" over the following days, with pyroclastic flows. [4] The activit... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Food Security Council created by Whitmer: To release recommendations on hunger amid pandemic | LANSING — A Food Security Council within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has been created by an executive order signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Friday. An Upper Peninsula resident, Tammy A. Rosa, of Gladstone, manager for the Upper Peninsula Area Agency on Aging, is one of the 16 members appointed... | Organization Established | null | null |
Brazil water survey heightens alarm over extreme drought | RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Brazilian scientists were skeptical. They ran different models to check calculations, but all returned the same startling result. The country with the most freshwater resources on the planet steadily lost 15% of its surface water since 1991. Gradual retreat in the Brazilian share of the Pantan... | Droughts | null | null |
2016 Colombia army helicopter crash | A Mil Mi-17 of the National Army of Colombia was reported missing after taking off from the city of Quibdó on 26 June 2016. The wreckage of the helicopter was found the following day in mountainous terrain in the department of Caldas, 180 km north-west of the capital city Bogotá. It was the third helicopter crash in Co... | Air crash | null | null |
Rays’ Randy Arozarena, Wander Franco finalists for top AL rookie award | Kevin Cash, who won last year, is a finalist for the BBWAA manager award, with winners to be named next week. Wander Franco, right, and Randy Arozarena both are up for the Rookie of the Year award. ST. PETERSBURG — Rays outfielder Randy Arozarena had arguably the most impressive full season of any American League rook... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
2021 Baghdad hospital fire |
On the night of 24 to 25 April 2021, a fire at the Ibn al-Khatib hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, left at least 82 people dead and 110 others injured. [1][2][3][4] The fire was started by the explosion of oxygen tanks designated for COVID-19 patients. A lack of fire detection and suppression systems contributed to the spre... | Fire | null | null |
Lion Air Flight 583 crash | Lion Air Flight 538 (JT 538) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Soekarno–Hatta International Airport, Jakarta, to Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, with a stopover at Adi Sumarmo Airport, Surakarta, Indonesia. On November 30, 2004, the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 overran the runway of Adi Sumarmo Airpor... | Air crash | null | null |
Coronavirus: Trump moves to pull US out of World Health Organization | President Donald Trump has formally moved to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO). The president had made his intentions clear in late May, accusing the WHO of being under China's control in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Despite calls from the EU and others, he said he would pull out of the ... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
1921: Deadly Chemical Works Explosion in Germany | (Special to the Herald.) MAINZ, Wednesday. — More than one thousand people were killed and several thousands injured yesterday as the result of an explosion that destroyed part of the great chemical works near Ludwigshafen, on the Rhine, which were so often attacked during the air raids in the war as being one of the p... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Caeleb Dressel sets Olympic record in 100 free, wins first individual gold | Caeleb Dressel was as fast as advertised in the men's 100m freestyle and then some, winning his first individual Olympic gold medal with an Olympic record time of 47.02.
Dressel, the 13-time world champion and third-fastest man in history, got off to a lightning-quick start with a 0.60 reaction time and just managed to... | Break historical records | null | null |
At least 48 migrants were killed when their boat sank off Tunisia’s coast and 67 others were rescued by the coast guard, officials said on Sunday, one of the worst migrant boat accidents in recent years. | TUNIS (Reuters) - At least 48 migrants were killed when their boat sank off Tunisia’s coast and 67 others were rescued by the coast guard, officials said on Sunday, one of the worst migrant boat accidents in recent years.
The boat went down near the southern island of Kerkenna, a tourist spot, in the night to Sunday, t... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad beat previous women's 400m hurdles world record to win gold and silver | Updated on: August 4, 2021 / 7:49 PM
/ CBS News
U.S. track star Sydney McLaughlin broke her own world record to win gold in the women's 400-meter hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics, with teammate Dalilah Muhammad coming in a close second and also breaking the previous record. McLaughlin ... | Break historical records | null | null |
2009 NK Široki Brijeg–FK Sarajevo football riots | The NK Široki Brijeg–FK Sarajevo football riot refers to the riot involving the football clubs NK Široki Brijeg (supported mostly by Herzegovian Croat fans[1]) and FK Sarajevo (supported mostly by Bosniak fans[citation needed]) during a leg of the 2009 Bosnian-Herzegovian Premier League in the Herzegovian town of Širok... | Riot | null | null |
1936 Syrian general strike |
The 1936 Syrian general strike (Arabic: الإضراب الستيني) was a 50-day strike that was organized as a response to the policies of the French occupation of Syria and Lebanon. The strike action paralyzed the country for two months and forced France to negotiate the Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence with the National... | Strike | null | null |
Michigan house explosion sends 8 people to hospitals | MARSHALL, Mich. (AP) — An explosion possibly leaked to natural gas destroyed a house in southern Michigan on Monday and injured eight people, authorities said.
All were taken to hospitals, though three were released. The explosion and fire occurred overnight in Marshall, 15 miles east of Battle Creek. There were at lea... | Gas explosion | null | null |
2011 Moremi Air Cessna 208 crash | On 14 October 2011, a Cessna 208 Caravan turboprop passenger aircraft operated by Moremi Air on a domestic flight from Xakanaka camp to Maun, Botswana, crashed and caught fire shortly after take-off, killing eight of the twelve people on board. [1]
The following investigation concluded that the aircraft suffered a cat... | Air crash | null | null |
Drought conditions still causing concern for Fargo area | FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Fargo city officials are having strong concerns as dry conditions continue in the area. “Our average annual precipitation, right now, would be about eight inches. We’re only at about two,” said Fargo City Administrator Bruce Grubb. The city has shifted to a Phase III drought warning lev... | Droughts | null | null |
1977 Pakistan uprising | The 1977 Pakistan uprising, also known as the Pakistani Revolution of 1977, was a long act of growing street protests and a long series of countrywide demonstrations against the results of the 1977 Pakistani general election and against prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Pakistan. The protests first erupted against ... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
The lacklustre take-up, so far, of Europe’s multi-billion rescue fund | The EU's Recovery and Resilience facility is meant to help European economies recover from the Covid-19 crisis. The fund will serve more as a medium-term boost to growth than a crisis-fighting tool. That said, digitalisation and the greening of mobility, energy and real estate stand to gain significant investment so bo... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Grue Church fire | On 26 May 1822, during the Pentecost service, the church at Grue, Norway, caught fire and at least 113 people were killed. It is the deadliest fire disaster in the history of Norway. The old Grue Church was located close to Skulstad, north-west of Kirkenær in Solør. [1] It was close to the bank of the River Glomma, and... | Fire | null | null |
BBC Richard Osman's House Of Games: Dara O Briain's famous best friend who was best man at his wedding | We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Richard Osman's Hous... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
3 Injured, Gas Leak Reported After Berwyn Explosion, Officials Say | An investigation continues after an explosion in Berwyn badly damaged an abandoned building and left three people with minor injuries. NBC 5’s Alex Maragos has the story.
Residents in suburban Berwyn are being asked to stay away from the area near 33rd Street and Oak Park Avenue after an explosion occurred, injuring at... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Enterprise Financial Services Corp to Acquire First Choice Bancorp | ST. LOUIS & CERRITOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enterprise Financial Services Corp (Nasdaq: EFSC) (the “Company,” “EFSC,” or “Enterprise”), the holding company of Enterprise Bank & Trust (“EB&T”), and First Choice Bancorp (Nasdaq: FCBP) (“FCBP”), the holding company of First Choice Bank (“First Choice”), announced today... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Panic in Lebanon as desert locust swarms hit farmland | Videos showing the insects flying over farmland in the towns of Ersal and Ras Baalbek in Bekaa circulated on social media, with the hashtag #locust trending in Lebanon The Lebanese military said that helicopters had begun spraying pesticides over Baalbek and Ras Baalbek to “fight and eradicate” the desert locusts Updat... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Rutgers brings in ex-N.J. comptroller to probe allegations of ‘ghost surgeries’ tied to top neurosurgeon | Updated: Dec. 15, 2021, 12:58 p.m. |
Published: Dec. 15, 2021, 8:30 a.m.
Dr. Anil Nanda, head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Rutgers University’s two medical schools, who was put on administrative leave last month in the wake of allegations in connection with so-called “ghost surgeries” at RWJ University Hospital... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
Cuesta Fire | The Cuesta fire was a wildfire that started on 16 August 2015 near U.S. Route 101 and the Cuesta Grade, in the Santa Lucia Range just north of San Luis Obispo in San Luis Obispo County, California. [1] The fire was contained on 28 August, and had burned 2,446 acres, some within the Los Padres National Forest. Mandatory... | Fire | null | null |
Korean Air Flight 1533 crash | Korean Air Flight 1533 was a domestic passenger flight from Gimpo International Airport to Pohang Airport. On March 15, 1999 the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 operating the flight overshot runway 10 during landing at Pohang Airport. All 156 people on board survived, but the aircraft was destroyed. The aircraft, carrying 156 ... | Air crash | null | null |
Indonesia’s Merapi volcano spews hot clouds, 500 evacuate | YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed avalanches of hot clouds Thursday morning as hundreds more residents were evacuated from its fertile slopes. Authorities evacuated more than 500 people living on the mountain in Magelang district on Java Island. Thousands of people already have had to... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
The best cruises of 2022, according to U.S. News & World Report | U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday published its ranking of the “best” cruise lines of 2022.
The publication evaluated 17 cruise lines through a combination of expert evaluations (30%), traveler reviews (50%) and health ratings published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Progra... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo announce US withdrawal from UN Human Rights Council | The Trump administration on Tuesday announced it is pulling the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council, one day after the body’s leader condemned the president’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy that has resulted in the separation of families at the border. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations N... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
CORRECTING and REPLACING Ancestry® Signs Agreement to Acquire French Genealogy Leader Geneanet | LEHI, Utah & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the fifth paragraph, second sentence, the name of the Founder and CEO of Geneanet should be Jacques Le Marois (instead of Jacques La Marois).
“Ancestry is committed to continued investment in Geneanet’s free tree-building platform and the volunteer spirit of its community... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
The 20 Biggest Stores That Closed for Good In 2020 | It was a difficult year for everyone, and it’s no secret that many retailers — and, sadly, their employees — took a huge financial hit in 2020. The ease of online shopping (and movement away from shopping malls) has affected brick-and-mortar stores for at least a decade, and the pandemic and shutdowns caused even mo... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Highway 1 near Lytton reopened after mudslide cleared | The mudslide occurred after heavy rains hit the area overnight. The province had pre-emptively closed the highway Friday afternoon after slopes in the area had been weakened by this summer's forest fires. Photos from the Ministry of Transportation show excavators clearing the mudslide, which appears to have reached the... | Mudslides | null | null |
Italy to set up cybersecurity agency ahead of national cloud plan - draft | Optical fibre cables are seen in a telephone exchange in Rome, Italy December 20, 2013. ROME, June 9 (Reuters) - Italy is set to create a national agency responsible for fighting cyber attacks, a draft decree showed, as it presses ahead with plans to create a unified cloud infrastructure to increase security for publi... | Organization Established | null | null |
The climate crisis will wipe out millions of jobs long before the feared robots do | NEW YORK ( Project Syndicate )— The climate crisis will wipe out millions of jobs long before the feared robots do. It is estimated that heat stress alone will eliminate the equivalent of 80 million full-time jobs by 2030, not counting those lost as a result of wildfires, floods, storms, and other extreme weather eve... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
In one year, 12 trillion locusts devastated the Great Plains ... | In one year, 12 trillion locusts devastated the Great Plains—and then they went extinct
They ate ‘everything but the mortgage’
Feb 16, 2017 · 6 min read
Locust plagues are a natural disaster of truly biblical proportions. (Keystone/Getty Images)
The American West is a land of booms and busts. But there was perhaps no b... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Suspect arrested, charged in College Station bank robberies | COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - College Station police have released the identity of the suspect involved in Tuesday’s bank robberies. Waseem Khalil, 21, of Houston has been arrested and charged with two counts of robbery and evading in a vehicle. College Station police say the bank robberies happened at two Wells Farg... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Karnataka reports 783 new Covid-19 cases, 16 deaths | BENGALURU: Karnataka on Sunday clocked 783 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking the caseload to 29.67 lakh, while 16 deaths pushed the toll to 37,603. The day also saw 1,139 people being discharged, taking the total number of recoveries to 29.15 lakh. Active cases stood at 15,383, a health department bulletin said. Bengaluru U... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Days after Dunwoody apartment explosion, residents told to move out | Days after an explosion rocked a Dunwoody apartment building, more than 400 tenants of the Arrive Perimeter complex were told to find a new place to live.
An email sent to residents Friday informed them they would have until Halloween to pack their belongings and move out.
One of the three buildings at the complex expl... | Gas explosion | null | null |
PFAS contamination: Katherine mango farmer seeks compensation from Defence |
A Northern Territory mango farmer is one of hundreds of Australians seeking compensation from the Defence Department after learning chemical contamination in his water supply is almost 66 times over the deemed safe limit for drinking water.
Patrick Fordham's small mango farm just outside the town of Katherine has been... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Brexit day: end of an era as United Kingdom leaves EU – as it happened | At 11pm GMT on 31 January, Britain officially left the EU after 47 years of membership. Downing Street marked the moment by beaming a virtual Big Ben on to No 10 to chime. Nearby, in Parliament Square, Nigel Farage led a rendition of God Save the Queen Here’s some of Westminster’s reaction to the confirmation that th... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
2005 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship | The 2005 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship was the 7th edition of the women's field hockey championship organised by the European Hockey Federation. It was held from the 14th until the 20th of August 2005 in Dublin, Ireland. [1]
The eight teams were be split into two groups of four teams. The top two teams advan... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Former Lynn Haven mayor asserts her innocence in motion to dismiss federal charges | The original indictment: Lynn Haven mayor and city attorney each charged with more than 60 federal crimes
The motion also alleges that the government withheld from her counsel evidence rebutting some or all of the charges Anderson faces by redacting it from discovery material turned over to her defense team.
"She lost ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
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