One person was killed and at least 36 others, including firefighters and first responders, were injured after a fire triggered two explosions at a shipyard in New York City on Friday, officials said. Authorities described the incident as a “complex, fast-developing emergency” as crews battled flames late into the night.The fire broke out around 3.30…
Uganda on Saturday confirmed three new Ebola cases, taking the total number of infections in the current outbreak in the country to five, as authorities intensified contact tracing efforts to contain the spread of the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus.According to Uganda’s health ministry, the new cases include a driver who transported the country’s…
Beneath the restless waters of southern China, something vast is slowly taking shape, far from public view and yet reshaping how entire cities may soon connect. It is not visible from ships passing above the Pearl River Estuary, nor from the coastline where ferries cut across busy routes every hour. But deep under the seabed,…
Five men were injured in a stabbing incident on a busy west London street after a violent altercation broke out in Acton on Friday afternoon, police said.According to the Metropolitan Police, officers patrolling Horn Lane were alerted to reports of multiple men being assaulted and stabbed at around 2.47 pm. Emergency first aid was administered…
A London court on Friday sentenced a 36-year-old man to five years in prison after he admitted to a series of antisemitic hate crimes targeting members of the Jewish community in north London.Tavius Jean-Charles pleaded guilty to seven racially aggravated public order offences and one count of racially aggravated criminal damage at Southwark Crown Court.According…
Economic rankings rarely stay still for long. A country can spend decades climbing steadily through manufacturing, technology and trade, only to slow once population growth weakens or industries begin shifting elsewhere. By the end of this decade, the global balance is expected to look noticeably different from the one that shaped much of the early…
Theatre crowd erupts as King Charles makes surprise entrance at Shakespeare performance / Image credit: @TheRoyalFamily The audience expected a night of Shakespeare. What they did not expect was the King of the United Kingdom quietly walking into the theatre moments before the curtains rose.King Charles III surprised theatregoers with an unannounced appearance at a…
For a city that stood at the heart of an ancient African empire, Napata has long carried an unusual silence around it. Ruins remain scattered beneath the shadow of sandstone cliffs in modern-day Sudan, and the Nile still bends through the same dry landscape it crossed thousands of years ago. Yet archaeologists have spent decades…
AI-generated image used for representation A gas explosion at the Liushenyu coal mine in Changzhi city in northern China has killed at least 82 people, AFP reported on Saturday.The explosion in northern China’s led to a major rescue operation after hundreds of workers were trapped underground, according to South China Morning Post.The blast took place…
Donald Trump with Ivanka Trump (Image/X) US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump was allegedly targeted for assassination by an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-trained member in a revenge plot linked to the 2020 killing of top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, according to a report by the New York Post.According to the report, recently…
