Temperatures in parts of the United States could drop to record lows of -30C (-22F) as a result of a “polar vortex” of cold, dense air. John Hammond from the BBC Weather Centre explains what causes the unusual phenomenon Please follow and like us:
Citizens of Spain’s Ibi annually celebrate the Els Enfarinats Festival with a battle of flour, eggs and firecrackers. The battle takes place between a group of married men called Els Enfarinats that takes control of the village for one day, pronouncing a whole host of ridiculous laws and fining the citizens that infringe them, and another group called La Oposicio, which tries to restore order. Money collected from the fines […]
Two men arrested following fire aboardKing Seaways ferry from Newcastle One, 26, arrested on suspicion of arson and another, 28 suspicion of affray Two crew members and four passengers airlifted to hospital last night 23 people in total suffered from smoke-related injuries, says ferry firm Passenger suspected of setting fire in cabin detained by ship staff Police say they cannot be sure whether blaze was accidental or on purpose Vessel […]
Ahead of the day when Colorado residents aged 21 and older can buy order weed online in Hamilton for recreational use, the first batch of Denver businesses approved to sell the drug got their licenses Friday. The benefits of CBD Gummies and other marijuana products have been identified. Applause broke out and cameras whirred when the first license was issued from Denver’s Department of Excise and Licenses. The city […]
A video released anonymously to reporters in Pakistan shows Warren Weinstein, a US government contractor who was kidnapped more than two years ago, appealing to President Obama to negotiate a release. A U.S. government contractor kidnapped by al-Qaida militants in Pakistan in 2011 has recorded a video message calling on the Obama administration to negotiate with his captors and saying he feels ‘‘totally abandoned and forgotten.’’ Warren Weinstein looked ashen […]
This High-Tech Squad Car Has Just as Much Brains as It Does Brawn To the untrained eye, it looks like almost any other New York Police Department cruiser combing the city’s streets—but this squad car has just as much brains as it does brawn. It is the department’s prototype “smart car,” outfitted with the latest gadgets in public safety. It has two infrared monitors mounted on the trunk that record […]
Those signing up for private health care coverage on the ObamaCare exchanges may be in for an unpleasant surprise — they’ll have insurance, but they might have trouble getting the doctor to see them. As hundreds of thousands enroll for coverage beginning Jan. 1, analysts are warning that the plans are likely to give them access to fewer doctors and hospitals. So much so, they warn, that the system […]
“I think it would be a good idea,” said Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi famously when asked by a British journalist about what he thought about modern civilisation. But Gandhi was hardly a foe of the West. He counted three white men – Henry Salt, John Ruskin and Leo Tolstoy – as his mentors, wept when London was bombed during World War Two, and even hired Indians to fight in […]
Rain Forest Warriors: How Indigenous Tribes Protect the Amazon With outside help, tribes like the Kayapo defend their land against ranchers, loggers, and miners. The destruction of the Amazon in Brazil can be seen by satellite: Where logging roads have spread their tentacles and ranchers have expanded their grazing, all is brown. Beginning in the early 1980s, these photos from space lost more and more green, so that by 2004 […]
It is two days before Christmas and we couldn’t be farther from a mall or a computer feverishly buying last-minute gifts. I’m not wrapping, cooking or hosting a crowd of out-of-town guests either. Instead, my husband and I, our 21-year-old daughter, Melanie, and our friend, Enesi Domi, 14, who lives in the Bronx, are taking a leisurely walk in the snow in New Hampshire’s White Mountains with other families — […]
