The latest collapse comes after a series of deadly mining accidents along the Central African Republic-Cameroon border. At least 100 people have been killed after a landslide struck an illegal gold mine in the Central African Republic near the border with Cameroon on Tuesday, with rescue teams continuing to search for survivors and victims at…
The destructions created by the 1872 Baltic sea flood in the area between Præstø and Faxe as depicted by Holger Drachmann as reporter for Illustreret Tidende. Image Credit: Holger Drachmann/Wikipedia More than a thousand ancient shipwrecks could still be lying beneath the Baltic Sea off the coast of Latvia, according to estimates cited by Latvian…
1958, the US secretly detonated 3 nuclear devices In August and September 1958, the United States military carried out a secret series of high-altitude nuclear tests in the remote upper reaches of the South Atlantic Ocean. Code-named Operation Argus, the operation involved launching three low-yield nuclear devices between 100 and 500 kilometres into space. The…
Three members of a family died after getting into difficulty while swimming off the coast of Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex, while a young girl remains in critical condition in hospital, police said.Emergency services were called at around 2.40pm on Tuesday after reports of four people in difficulty in the water near Shoreham Fort, Sussex Police…
Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge (Image Credit: Canva) A severe storm in 2015 flooded and destroyed a recreational beach parking lot at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia, exposing the growing difficulty of maintaining visitor facilities on a shifting barrier island. According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the refuge is now relocating the recreational…
PC: Guinness World Records At 14, Sheri Lynch was given a small grey hippopotamus plush by her best friend. She had no idea that the birthday present would still be part of her life more than four decades later, or that it would eventually sit alongside more than a thousand other hippo-themed objects. The US…
Across the US there are two voices rising out of the ordinary, one propagating the AI boom as the natural future of the world, and the other resisting it, calling it the doom that humans are bringing upon themselves. In numerous states, people have carried out rallies and protests, even formulating laws that prohibit the…
Image: Pokemon Coloring For most people, Pokémon cards are childhood keepsakes tucked away in old drawers or binders. For Gary Haase, they became the centrepiece of a lifelong collecting obsession that eventually grew into one of the most valuable Pokémon card collections in the world. Known as “King Pokémon”, the Las Vegas collector began collecting…
Female polar bear near Kaktovik, Barter Island, Alaska. Image Credit: Alan Wilson/Wikipedia A single polar bear destroyed 89% of an entire ‘eider bird colony’ on an Alaskan barrier island in less than a day, giving scientists a striking example of how a changing Arctic is altering relationships between predators and seabirds. The incident, recorded on…
The billboard is the latest escalation in an increasingly bitter public feud between Netanyahu and Mamdani Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has stepped up its attack on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, placing his image alongside Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on…
