Category: World

The first votes of the New Hampshire GOP primary have been cast, with all six voters backing former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley in the tiny town of Dixville Notch which became the first place to declare primary results. “A great start to a great day in New Hampshire,” Haley said in a statement reacting […]

A Virgin Atlantic flight set for departure from the United Kingdom’s Manchester Airport to New York City’s John F Kennedy International Airport was recently cancelled after a passenger spotted missing screws on the plane’s wing, ABC7 reported Monday. British traveller Phil Hardy, 41, was aboard Flight VS127 on January 15 when he identified four missing fasteners during […]

Sanjay Shah, the CEO of Illinois-based tech firm, Vistex, died after sustaining severe injuries in a freak accident during his company’s silver jubilee celebrations. Last week, Shah, 56, and his company president Raju Datla, 52, were involved in a horrifying fall while attempting to make a special aerial entrance in front of 700 employees at Ramoji […]

San Diego was slammed with a wallop of a Pacific front on Monday, surprising the city despite the likelihood of rain, as the third of three Pacific storms to strike the West Coast since Friday. The National Weather Service (NWS) declared Monday “the wettest January day on record in San Diego” after the third storm, […]

Authorities said Sunday that they have detained a male suspect and recovered a weapon after at least four women were killed during a shooting at home in Tinley Park. According to the officials, they arrived at around 11:20am at the 7400 block of West 173rd Street and found four bullet-stricken bodies. CBS News quoted Village Manager […]

The United States has been hit by ferocious winter storms in the past week, which has resulted in nearly 90 weather-related fatalities across different parts of the country. Oregon remains under a state of emergency after enduring severe ice storms that have claimed 16 lives while Tennessee has reported at least 25 deaths due to […]

South Africa is taking legal action to prevent the auction of 70 personal items belonging to Nelson Mandela, the iconic anti-apartheid leader, BBC reported.  His daughter, Makaziwe Mandela, plans to auction items such as hearing aids, an ID card, and symbolic “Madiba” shirts in the United States. However, the South African government argues that these possessions belong […]

A school dormitory fire in Henan province, central China, has claimed the lives of thirteen individuals, according to a report by the official Xinhua news agency. The incident unfolded at Yingcai School in Yanshanpu village, with the local fire department receiving the distress call at 11pm (1500 GMT) on Friday night. By the time rescuers […]

Over the weekend, parts of Western Australia experienced an “extreme” heat wave, which raised concerns about bushfires in the region prompting warnings from weather authorities. The Bureau of Meteorology issued an “extreme heat wave warning” for the remote Pilbara and Gascoyne areas of Australia’s largest state, with temperatures expected to soar into the high forties […]

The Los Angeles Innocence Project (LAIP), a nonprofit organisation which works to exonerate people who are wrongly convicted and incarcerated, is now representing Scott Peterson, who allegedly killed wife and child. Peterson, now 51, was sentenced to death in 2005 after his 2004 conviction in the murders of his wife, Laci Peterson, and their son, […]