Douala building: Shock as collapse kills 12 in Cameroon
Rescuers will make sure no-one is left beneath the rubble, vows a top official in the city of Douala.
2023-07-23 23:53
Heavy rains in Afghanistan and Pakistan unleash flash floods that killed dozens of people
Officials say heavy flooding from seasonal rains in Afghanistan has killed at least 31 people and left dozens missing over the past three days
2023-07-23 23:52
Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro fades from the spotlight
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is fading from the spotlight, showing the courts’ power over the electoral system and the political shortcomings of the increasingly powerless former leader
2023-07-23 23:25
‘Barbie,’ in 1st, and ‘Oppenheimer,’ in 2nd, fuel historic box office bonanza
“Barbenheimer” didn’t just work – it spun box office gold
2023-07-23 23:23
Protesters in the Thai capital calls on senators to approve vote winners' choice for prime minister
Hundreds of people have rallied in the Thai capital Bangkok to demand that conservative members of the Senate stop blocking the naming of a prime minister belonging to a winning coalition from May’s general election, a stance that risks a potentially destabilizing deadlock
2023-07-23 23:21
Next year's Olympics are giving Paris an impetus to confront crack cocaine use on city streets
Neighborhoods in northeast Paris have struggled for years with the scourge of crack cocaine and its use in public
2023-07-23 23:18
Wedding photographers adapt to couples who want instant images and less tradition on their big day
More and more couples are throwing out the playbook for a traditional wedding -- and posing new challenges for the people they hire to create the perfect images of their big day
2023-07-23 22:53
Greece fires - live: Jet2 and Tui scrap Rhodes flights as tourists fleeing island describe ‘hell on earth’
Jet2 and Tui have cancelled all flights to Rhodes as wildfires continue to tear through the Greek holiday destination for a sixth consecutive day. The Jet2 planes were scheduled to depart from the East Midlands, Leeds Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle and Stansted airports full of tourists bound for the Greek island. But the planes left emply and will instead be used to evacuate holidaymakers fleeing the blaze. Fire crews are now in a race against time to stop the fires from spreading further with 21mph (34kph) winds forecast for tomorrow. Thousands of tourists were forced to flee their hotels and images captured their dramatic evacuation off of beaches by a fleet of private boats while the fires raged in the background. Becky Mulligan, a 29-year-old training manager from Leicester, was staying at the Princess Sun Hotel in the Kiotari resort on Rhodes’s southeast coast when she, her daughter, 5 and sister, 20 say they were forced to flee. “I thought I was going to die. It was like hell on earth,” she told The Independent. Read More Wildfires on Greek island of Rhodes force thousands of holidaymakers to evacuate From body bags of ice to pavement burn: US grapples with new extreme heat reality Hiker, 71, dies in Death Valley shortly after being asked by reporter why he was braving heat: ‘Why not?’ July 2023 is set to be world’s hottest month in ‘hundreds, if not thousands, of years’
2023-07-23 22:21
A salvage team is set to begin siphoning oil out of rusting tanker moored off Yemen, UN says
A senior United Nations official says a salvage team is set to begin siphoning oil out of the decaying tanker moored off the coast of Yemen
2023-07-23 22:20
Blinken says US is 'working to put some stability' into relationship with China
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN in an exclusive interview that the US is attempting to strengthen "lines of communication" with China to avoid conflict between the two superpowers.
2023-07-23 22:19
Italy PM Meloni seeks to build alliance to tackle illegal migration
By Angelo Amante and Keith Weir ROME (Reuters) -Illegal flows of migrants are damaging all countries across the Mediterranean, Italian
2023-07-23 22:19
Bell tolls for Wisconsin man who wins Hemingway look-alike contest
The annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest has been won by a Wisconsin man who was celebrating his 68th birthday
2023-07-23 22:17