A powerful earthquake that struck central Italy on Wednesday has left at least 73 people dead, the country’s civil protection unit said. Immacolata Postiglione, the head of the unit’s emergency department, announced the new toll at a press conference in Rome as rescue efforts continued in the mountain villages devastated by the quake. The US Geological Survey (USGS) reported that […]
» Read moreThe world’s largest aircraft crashed today in eastern England during its second test flight since being revamped in the United Kingdom. Airlander 10, the 92-metre-long part-plane, part-helicopter, part airship, was damaged after reportedly hitting a telegraph pole at its base at Cardington airfield in Bedfordshire. “The flight went really well and the only issue was when it landed,” said a […]
» Read moreAt least 38 people died in a powerful earthquake that hit central Italy early on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the civil protection department said. The quake struck towns and villages in the mountainous heart of the country, which was making the rescue operation more difficult, said spokeswoman Immacolata Postiglione. Speaking to journalists, Postiglione said 27 people had died between the […]
» Read moreA British woman was stabbed to death on Wednesday at a backpackers’ hostel in Australia and two people were injured, one seriously, in what police say may have been an “extremist” attack. A French man shouting the Arabic phrase “Allahu akbar” stabbed the British woman to death and wounded two men in an attack at a hostel in northeast Australia, […]
» Read moreNine persons, including five children and three women, were killed and 35 others injured when a bus collided with a truck in Pakistan’s southeastern Sindh province while trying to overtake it, police said on Sunday. The bus was heading to Shahdad Kot from here when it collided with the truck in Thatta district, police officials said. The bus was trying to […]
» Read moreA shooting at a crowded house party has left 13 people wounded, and police in Connecticut are investigating what they said is an unusual outburst of violence in the state’s largest city. Bridgeport police believe two shooters opened fire on about 100 party-goers from behind some hedges surrounding the home’s backyard. It happened around 1:30 AM (local time) yesterday. Responding officers […]
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