While climate change brings environmental instabilities to Thailand’s ecosystem, resulting in recent famines and floods, the country’s State Railway saw an opportunity that can lift the Thai economy, the floating train. By selling tickets for seeing the sights via the train while flaunting the high-water levels as a selling point, the railway is directly making […]
Recent covid-19 lockdowns in China forced the world’s biggest iPhone plant to shut down. Thus, Apple has advised phone buyers to expect delays in getting their ordered products. Manned and operated by Foxconn, the factory, is operating at “significantly reduced capacity,” Apple officers said. Officials locked down the district where the factory is located beginning November 2. […]
“Thirty-five years ago, when I was a priest, I behaved in a reprehensible way with a young girl aged 14,” confesses Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard in a statement about his child abuse act with a female minor. Ricard is a high-ranking prelate of the French Catholic Church. The revelation came after a report recently issued exposed […]
How come the poor nations are always the ones suffering from heatwaves, famines, and typhoons when all these climate change issues are caused by the insensitive actions of wealthy countries? In Pakistan, floods disrupted the lives of 33 million people and submerged a huge part of the country; the economic toll is pegged at $30 […]
Almost a hundred cities in China are now under limited or full lockdown as Xi Jinping country continues to implement its zero-COVID policy but on social media, the Chinese citizens have had enough and are asking for their freedom of movement. Chinese residents are now running short on food and have inadequate or no access […]
The sun, the biggest entity in our solar system, is “smiling.” The image, taken by NASA’s space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory, was shared on social media causing different outbursts from viewers. Released on Twitter, the post said: “Today, Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the sun ‘smiling.’ Seen in ultraviolet light, these dark patches on the sun […]
A new book about King Charles III jolted the world as it reveals a ‘hush-hush deal between Queen Elizabeth II and her son Charles, to make his wife, Camilla, the queen consort. The quiet arrangement involved Prince Andrew, allegedly Queen Elizabeth’s favourite son. Entitled The King: The Life of Charles III, Christopher Andersen divulges in […]
On the evening of October 29, 2022, a traditional Celtic celebration supposedly to welcome the harvest at the end of summer, was turned into a nightmare. A frightening horde of people in mayhem made the Halloween festivities in Itaewon, the killing field of at least 156 people and wounding at least 172 more. The Itaewon tragedy is the most […]
Gigantic silver and white Christmas decors from an art installation rolled down London’s Tottenham Court Road causing traffic pandemonium. Footage shows these baubles rushing to the street due to high winds, as cars and motorists try hard to avoid them. One of these ornaments hit a street light post before speeding off down the road […]
