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The scars of Australia’s bombing by Japan 80 years ago still linger, and are now shaping its attitude towards China The Second World War was undoubtedly the first war of the skies. When one thinks of the aerial conflict, the Battle of Britain, the carpet bombing of German cities, the attacks on Gorky, V1 and […]
An estimated 4.5 million people live in the path of a tropical storm that has already devastated vast territories The latest intense cyclone has descended on several countries in the Indian Ocean, bringing death and devastation. Batsirai hit Madagascar this weekend, with gusts reaching 146 miles per hour (235 kph). At least six people were […]
England’s MMR vaccination rates have fallen to “very worrying” levels, as parents are unaware of the deadly risk measles can pose The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has warned that thousands of children across England are at risk of catching deadly measles after MMR vaccine rates fell to their lowest level in ten years. Since […]
A case of the H5 strain has been identified in a person from South West England Officials have confirmed that a person has contracted bird flu, believed to be the potentially fatal H5N1 variant. It is the first human case of the strain, which has a mortality rate of around 60%, in the UK. On […]
The voice assistant suggested a pre-teen undertake a dangerous dare Amazon says it has updated its voice assistant after it transpired that Alexa had suggested a 10-year-old girl touch a coin to the prongs of a partially inserted plug as a challenge. The girl’s mother posted a tweet on Monday describing how her daughter had […]
A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a packed bar, killing six and injuring 13 people who were celebrating Christmas in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Tragedy struck on Saturday in the city of Beni, when a terrorist detonated a bomb at the entrance of a crowded bar. According to local authorities, the security […]
The twin blasts that rocked an airport in the Colombian city of Cucuta on Tuesday, killing two police officers, was a terrorist attack, the country’s President Ivan Duque has said. “We reject the cowardly terrorist attack that occurred in the city of Cucuta,” Duque wrote on Twitter, adding that the military and police were doing […]
Two crew members of a British cargo ship that collided with a Danish ship in the Baltic Sea were revealed to have been drunk when the incident, which led to at least one fatality, occurred. The two ships collided in the Baltic Sea on Monday, resulting in at least one death from the Danish ship’s […]
Further mutations of the Covid-19 virus could spawn a strain as contagious as the Delta variant and as deadly as the Ebola virus. That’s the stark warning from the World Medical Association. Frank Ulrich Montgomery, chairman of the global physicians’ society (WMA), shared his fears with Germany’s Funke media group’s newspapers on Saturday. He stressed […]
Hundreds of residents of Italy’s Vulcano island have been told to evacuate from their homes every night for the next month over concerns about potentially lethal gases emitted from the La Fossa volcano crater. Under the measure, which comes into effect from Monday, people must vacate their homes between 11pm and 6am local time due […]
Health authorities in China’s Guangdong province have reported a single human case of the H5N6 strain of bird flu in Dongguan city. The virus, which has increasingly jumped to humans this year, kills half of its hosts. On Thursday, the Health Commission of Guangdong Province said it considered the risk of H5N6 transmission to be […]
A Lebanese judge has charged dozens of people for this month’s deadly unrest in the capital of Beirut, which saw seven people killed and more wounded in the worst street violence to have gripped the city in years. Lebanon’s state news agency said on Monday that Government Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Fadi Akiki […]
Islamic State terrorist group says Friday’s suicide bombing attack on a Shia mosque in southern Afghanistan that killed 47 people and left dozens wounded was carried out by its members. Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Fatimiya Mosque in Kandahar province in a statement, distributed on social media […]
Mental illness remains the main driver behind the deadly bow-and-arrow attack in Norway, police have said. While the suspect is being held in a psychiatric institution, other motives, including terrorism, have not been ruled out. “We work with several hypotheses. They are weakened and strengthened during the investigation,” police inspector Per Thomas Omholt said during […]
Congolese professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the virologist who first discovered Ebola more than 40 years ago, has declared that it has been defeated, marking the end of a decades-long battle against the “deadly disease.” The 79-year-old scientist made the announcement on Thursday during an event to mark the arrival of the Ebola ‘Ebanga’ treatment in the […]