Sunday, May 18, 2014 The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has warned that the state of the housing market in the United Kingdom is the current biggest domestic threat to the country’s economy, due to lack of house building, and regulatory issues. In an interview to be aired on Sky News today,…
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Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras celebrated by 450,000 people
Saturday, March 4, 2006 Nearly half a million people packed into Sydney’s “Golden Mile” on Saturday night to applaud the city’s 28th annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. Parade organisers estimated the crowd at over 450,000. They lined Oxford St – along the parade’s route – in Sydney’s unofficial gay district, cheering the 6,000…
Woman blows herself up in Iraq; over 140 casualties
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 A woman Iraqi suicide bomber yesterday killed at least 41 people, including women and children, and injured at least one hundred others in north-eastern Baghdad, according to an interior ministry spokesman. The attack took place in the middle of a group of pilgrims walking to Karbala, marking Arbaeen, a period of…
Escape room fire kills five teen girls in Koszalin, Poland
Saturday, January 5, 2019 A fire yesterday afternoon killed five girls, all aged fifteen, at an escape room the group was visiting to celebrate a birthday in Koszalin, North Poland. Following the fire, which also seriously injured a man, authorities are performing checks on all the nation’s escape rooms. Escape rooms see participants locked into…
Mars orbiter finds widespread evidence of water-bearing minerals
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found evidence of hydrated silica or opal, a form of mineral, over large areas in the Martian surface, including in the large martian canyon called Valles Marineris. The discovery was made by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer (CRISM) instrument on the orbiter. The findings are published…
US nationals arrested for alleged abduction of Haitian children
Monday, February 1, 2010 Haitian police yesterday arrested ten United States nationals, five men and five women, over the alleged abduction of 33 children. The nationals tried to cross with the children, aged between two months and twelve years, into the Dominican Republic, but were halted at the border. The group belongs to the two-month-old…
Kenya government fires health worker strikers over failure to ‘report back to work’
Saturday, March 10, 2012 The Kenyan government has dismissed 25,000 striking health workers, mostly nurses, citing failure to heed government orders to recommence work and concern for the welfare of hospital patients. Speaking on behalf of the government, Alfred Mutua stated the workers were dismissed “illegally striking” and “[defying] the directive … to report back…
Boko Haram attack in Nigerian city kills at least fifteen
Monday, December 28, 2015 According to witness reports, Boko Haram gunmen and suicide bombers killed at least fifteen people in an attack in the city of Maiduguri, Nigeria yesterday, before the military drove them off. Locals reported hearing gunfire as evening prayers ended at local mosques. The military pushed back the militants, who were on…
Quake strikes near Anchorage, Alaska; no injuries reported
Monday, January 25, 2016 According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Alaska, United States, near the state’s most populous city of Anchorage. City authorities say they do not know of any injuries caused by the earthquake, which occurred early yesterday morning. The earthquake’s epicentre was 162 miles (about 260 km)…