Heartbroken parents of Japanese Frozen actress who fell to her death from a hotel hold her ashes after she is cremated as they ‘say goodbye’ as police investigate suspected suicide Sayaka Kanda, 35, was found outside of the 22-storey hotel she was staying in The stage and voice actress was cremated in the city of Sapporo on … Read more
Countries across Europe considered new curbs on movement on Tuesday while U.S. President Joe Biden appealed to all Americans to get vaccinated to fight the Omicron variant of COVID-19 sweeping the world days before the second Christmas of the pandemic. Omicron infections are multiplying across Europe, the United States and Asia, including in Japan, … Read more
On the Chinese side of the unmarked border, new helicopter pads, runways and railroads have been laid on the Tibetan plateau, according to satellite images and state media reports. On the Indian side, officials are rushing construction on the Zoji La tunnels, upgrading several strategic roads and unveiling new cell towers and landing strips. Both … Read more
A landslide on Wednesday at a jade mine in northern Myanmar killed one person and left more than 70 others missing, according to a civil society group and local media reports. The disaster, in the Hpakant area of Kachin State, occurred around 4 a.m. local time, when dozens of people were swept into a lake … Read more
New Russian stealth warship suffers £225million of damage after catching fire during construction The blaze started on Friday in St Petersburg at the Severnaya Verf shipyardFootage showed devastating fire damage to the £307 million stealth ship, intended to carry Vladimir Putin’s lethal Mach-9 hypersonic missiles It has caused a major setback to the Kremlin’s naval modernisation project By Will … Read more
The hunter becomes the hunted: Leopard is forced to hide up a tree after angry elephant chases it away from its herd A leopard in South Africa was forced to seek sanctuary at the top of a tree after being targeted by an elephantPhotographer Kevin Dooley, 60, captured the elephant reaching for the leopard at … Read more
Israel announced on Tuesday that it will offer a fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to people older than 60, amid concern about the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. A Health Ministry expert panel recommended the fourth shot, a decision that was swiftly welcomed by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett as “great … Read more
President Biden will announce new steps on Tuesday to confront an alarming surge in coronavirus cases fueled by the infectious new Omicron variant. They include readying 1,000 military medical professionals to help at overburdened hospitals, setting up new federal testing and vaccination sites, deploying hundreds of federal vaccinators and buying 500 million rapid tests to … Read more
LONDON — Last Thursday night, many people in Britain were worrying about the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, and whether the pandemic was about to disrupt Christmas plans for the second year in a row. The country had just broken a record for new daily cases of the virus and Prime Minister Boris Johnson had … Read more
Authorities in Qatar have seized a line of what they called ‘un-Islamic’ children’s toys that feature rainbow patterns similar to LGBT flags. The small oil-rich peninsular will host next year’s football World Cup, and despite repeated assertions by authorities that anyone will be welcome to visit for the tournament, homosexuality remains illegal in the conservative Muslim … Read more