STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: The death toll rises to 13, hospital spokesman says Dozens of people are feared to be trapped in the rubble The old residential building in southern Mumbai gave way early Friday Around 22 apartments were occupied on the building’s upper floors, the owner says At least 13 people were killed and 26 more were injured when a five-story residential building collapsed in the Indian financial hub of […]
Christine McCullins, 54, was bitten by a false widow spider in Hampshire She was bed-ridden for a week after her leg swelled up and turned black It took three weeks and two courses of antibiotics to remove the infection Rising numbers of false widows reported across the south of the UK It is a relative of the potentially deadly black widow spider A woman feared her leg would have to […]
Xiaolian, 22, damaged his nose in a traffic accident in August 2012 Failed to get treatment so it became infected and cartilage was damaged Surgeons were unable to repair it so created a new nose on his forehead It was made using cartilage from his ribs and a skin tissue expander Surgeons are hoping to carry out transplant surgery to put it in place of his old nose soon A […]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS James Fergusson: Somali teens lured into Al-Shabaab by promise of food, security Many are orphans, he says, with no real Islamic ideology, who want to survive Recruiters tell of virgins in heaven, he says; Americans lured by tales of battle He says until Somalia gives teens a chance at a decent life, they will turn to Al-Shabaab Editor’s note: James Fergusson is a freelance journalist and foreign correspondent […]
International police body Interpol has issued a wanted persons notice for Briton Samantha Lewthwaite, at Kenya’s request. Ms Lewthwaite, 29, is the widow of one of the four suicide bombers who attacked London on 7 July 2005. Known colloquially as the “white widow”, she has been linked with Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab. The group was behind the attack on the Westgate shopping complex in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, at […]
A powerful earthquake has killed at least 208 people in Pakistan’s remote south-west province of Balochistan. The 7.7-magnitude quake struck on Tuesday afternoon at a depth of 20km (13 miles) north-east of Awaran, the US Geological Survey said. Many houses were flattened and thousands of people have spent the night in the open. After the quake, a small island appeared off the coast near the port of Gwadar, witnesses reported. […]
] STORY HIGHLIGHTS Almost one-third of air travelers say they left on a portable electronic device during flight An upcoming report may lead to looser rules on such devices on planes Not under consideration: airborne use of cell phones for voice communication You left your cell phone on during a flight, didn’t you? Maybe it was accidental, or maybe it was out of sheer contempt for a rule you believe […]
Satpal Singh was inside the Westgate shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi when gunmen opened fire. He describes how he helped to lead some of the trapped people to safety, and even went back inside to carry injured people out of the building, despite coming under fire himself. I was at the mall for a business meeting – we were upstairs where the Java coffee house is, where […]
Typhoon Usagi has killed at least 25 people after striking south China’s Guangdong province Sunday evening, the provincial flood control headquarters said Monday.Thirteen deaths were reported in Shanwei City, where 24 others were injured in accidents during the storm, Xinhua reported citing official tallies. Usagi – the Japanese word for rabbit – was designated a super typhoon Saturday after it passed through the Philippines and Taiwan, moving toward China’s mainland. […]
