BBC: Rescuers in Kyiv are racing to find people trapped under the rubble of partly demolished apartment blocks, after at least nine were killed in Russia’s second round of strikes on the Ukrainian capital in a week. Kyiv’s top military administrator Timur Tkachenko said 46 people were injured, with at least five children injured. The […]
BBC: Howling winds and lashing rains are battering Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands as super typhoon Bavi makes landfall. Packing winds of nearly 290km/h (180mph) and gusts of 350km/h, Bavi is moving over the Pacific islands, according to the US National Weather Service (NWS). The NWS warned the “very dangerous” storm could cause “catastrophic” […]
BBC: Bangladesh’s new government has sought greater Chinese investments and partnership to revive a stuttering economy, even as it attempts to re-balance ties with neighbouring India. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique Rahman went to Malaysia and China in his first overseas official visit last month, signalling the direction of Dhaka’s foreign policy. Analysts say the choice […]
BBC: When Vietnam’s police raided a pair of nondescript warehouses in outer Ho Chi Minh City earlier this year, they discovered more than 23,000 pairs of slippers bearing the logos of Nike, Adidas, Crocs and Gucci. Except those brands had nothing to do with the warehouses. The slippers were all counterfeits. The raid, which led […]
BBC: At least eight people have been rescued from a seaplane that landed in New York City’s East River, authorities say. New York fire officials responded to reports of an aircraft down at around midday local time (16:00 GMT) off the marina at East 23rd Street and FDR Drive in Manhattan. The seaplane was upright […]
BBC: Emergency evacuations are taking place in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands as a super typhoon bears down on the US Pacific territories. Bavi is forecast to make landfall early on Monday morning, with winds of up to 257km/h (160mph), according to the US National Weather Service (NWS). It warned the “very dangerous” storm […]
BBC: The US has marked its 250th birthday with fireworks and flyovers – but celebrations across the country were complicated by extreme weather. “The American dream is back,” US President Donald Trump told a cheering crowd during a delayed rally in Washington’s National Mall, before what he described as the world’s largest firework display. The […]
BBC: A major oil terminal in Russia’s second city of St Petersburg in the north-west was struck overnight by Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. He described it as key “infrastructure that generates revenue for Russia’s war”. Ukraine also said a major Russian naval base in the region was hit. St Petersburg Governor Aleksandr Beglov […]
CNN: An international police operation spanning seven countries has uncovered highly organized networks of offenders who drug and rape their partners and use online chat groups to aid and encourage their “horrifying” assaults, authorities said on Thursday. In most cases, the victims are women who are sedated before being raped and sexually assaulted, Europol and […]
BBC: A Nasa-funded spacecraft has been sent into space to catch a falling telescope. The Swift observatory detects some of the most powerful explosions in the Universe – but is at risk of crashing back to Earth in the coming months. The small space telescope will be intercepted by the LINK craft, which will attempt […]
