The desert nation of the United Arab Emirates attempted to dry out Wednesday from the heaviest rain ever recorded there after a deluge flooded out Dubai International Airport, disrupting flights through the world’s busiest airfield for international travel. The state-run WAM news agency called the rain Tuesday “a historic weather event” that surpassed “anything documented
Amid heightened tensions between China and Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping told a former Taiwanese president who supports unification that the countries “belong” together. “Differences in systems cannot change the fact that both sides of the Taiwan Straits belong to the same country and nation,” Xi said.“External interference cannot stop the historical trend of reunion
The White House says it will provide unspecified support for Israel’s defense against an ongoing airborne attack from Iran. National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a Saturday statement that “Iran has begun an airborne attack against Israel.” She added: “The United States will stand with the people of Israel and support their defense
A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, many weeping as they carried their children. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured. New South Wales police said they believed a 40-year-old man was responsible for the Saturday afternoon
A 22-year-old French woman was found dead in an abandoned and deconsecrated church in northern Italy last week after bleeding out from a deep wound to her neck. The mysterious killing has been the subject of much speculation in Italy, especially after a witness came forward saying he saw the woman with her boyfriend, days
It’s 50 years since ABBA won a major battle with “Waterloo.” A half-century ago on Saturday, the Swedish quartet triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song, which opens: “My my, at Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way.”The song rang out again Saturday at London’s Waterloo
An 79-year-old American tourist was killed during a national park safari in Zambia after a bull elephant charged the vehicle carrying six tourists and a tour guide on Saturday. The elephant attacked the car as it travelled through Kafue National Park in western Zambia, the tour operation company Wilderness told NBC News in a statement.In
An earthquake off the coast Taiwan with a magnitude of 7.2 rocked the entire island on Wednesday morning, collapsing buildings in a southern city and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on southern Japanese islands. Taiwan television stations showed footage of some collapsed buildings in the lightly populated eastern city of Hualien, near the quake’s epicentre
Bones belonging to Émile Soleil, a 2-year-old boy who went missing nearly nine months ago from his grandparents’ home in a remote hamlet in the French Alps, have been found. Soleil’s disappearance in July last year shocked France and captured international attention. The toddler seemingly vanished into thin air as his family was getting ready
The CEO of Ryanair, one of the largest low-cost carriers in the world, said the airline has been voicing its concerns over the quality of Boeing aircrafts for the past 18 months, according to a video interview last week with CNN. Michael O’Leary said that issues started arising in 2022 and 2023.“We were finding little