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The United States will deploy a guided missile destroyer and state-of-the-art fighter jets to help defend the United Arab Emirates after a series of missile attacks by Yemeni rebels, a US statement said Wednesday.
Source: france24.com
At least 17 people died and 56 more were hospitalized in a northwestern suburb of Buenos Aires after consuming cocaine cut with an a toxic substance, possibly opioids, authorities said Wednesday. Officials said they are working quickly to determine what the cocaine was mixed with, but warned those who have bought the drug over the last 24 hours to dispose of it.
Source: france24.com
A massive winter storm walloped the central United States with heavy snow, freezing rain and gusty winds on Wednesday, threatening to make travel dangerous and possibly knocking out power for millions of Americans.
Source: aljazeera.com
A rare painting by German expressionist Franz Marc - returned last year from a museum to the descendents of a Jewish collector who fled the Nazis - is expected to set a new world record for the artist when it is offered for sale in an auction next month. "The Foxes" (Die Füchse), featuring two brightly coloured, intertwined foxes, is estimated to fetch around 35 million pounds ($47 million) when it goes on sale at Christie's in London on March 1.
Source: reuters.com
The bodies of 12 migrants who froze to death were found near Turkey’s border with Greece, the Turkish interior minister said Wednesday, accusing Greek border guards of pushing them back over the frontier. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said tweeted that the 12 were among 22 migrants who were pushed back into Turkey by Greek border guards. He said they were found near the Ipsala border crossing between Turkey and Greece “without shoes and stripped of their clothes.”
Source: apnews.com
A Roman statue of the god Bacchus has been handed back to the French museum where it was displayed. The 1st Century bronze of Bacchus as a child was taken by thieves in December 1973, along with 5,000 Roman coins. Art detective Arthur Brand traced the statue to the museum when a client was offered it by an Austrian collector. The 40cm-high statue was dug up on the site of the Gallo-Roman village of Vertillum in eastern France in 1894.
Source: bbc.com
Two extremely rare 'black' tigers have been captured strolling around the Nandankanan National Park in eastern India. The stunning creatures have only been seen in the Odisha state and experts have in the past couple of years claimed there were as few as seven to eight of them left in the region.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
At least 60 people were killed in a militia attack on Wednesday morning at the Savo displaced persons' in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province, the head of a local humanitarian group and a witness told Reuters. Both sources told Reuters the CODECO militia was responsible for the killings, which took place about 0200 GMT at the Savo camp in Ituri province.
A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three U.S. states is the new world record holder for longest flash. The single flash extended 477.2 miles (768 kilometers) across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in April 2020, the World Meteorological Organization said Monday. That beat the old record set in 2018 in Brazil of 440.6 miles (709 kilometers).
Source: apnews.com
Self-charging hybrid cars, which operate on both an internal combustion engine and a battery, outsold diesel cars in Europe for the first time in 2021, albeit by just 48 vehicles, data showed on Wednesday. One in 11 cars sold were battery-electric, the data from the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association showed, totalling just under 880,000 vehicles. Self-charging hybrid cars contain a battery charged by an internal combustion engine, and generally can only drive a limited distance on electric power.
Source: france24.com
India's finance minister has said the country will launch a digital version of the rupee as early as this year. In her annual budget speech, Nirmala Sitharaman also outlined plans for a 30% tax on income from digital assets. It would put profits from trading or transferring cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens in the country's highest tax band.
Source: bbc.com
Disaster-hit Tonga will go into lockdown on Wednesday, according to the government, after the country detected its first two community transmissions of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. Tonga Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni told an emergency press conference that the lockdown would start at 05:00 GMT, just days after the Pacific island nation received aid from an Australian ship where cases of COVID-19 had been reported on board.
Source: aljazeera.com
Five people have been confirmed dead after a pile of waste collapsed over locals trying to lift coal from an abandoned open cast mine owned by state-run Coal India Ltd in the eastern state of Jharkhand, police said on Wednesday. Police said the mishap occurred early on Tuesday in Gopinathpur in the district of Dhanbad, located about 400 km (250 miles) from the state capital Ranchi.
Source: reuters.com
The heaviest flooding to hit Ecuador in two decades has killed at least 22 people in Quito, inundating homes, swamping cars and sweeping away athletes and spectators on a sports field, officials said Tuesday. Twenty people are missing and 47 injured, Ecuador's SNGRE emergency service said on Twitter.
Source: france24.com
Tesla will recall all 53,822 vehicles with its "full self-driving" driver-assist feature after it was intentionally programmed to slowly roll through stop signs in some scenarios. The recall will impact Model S, X, 3 and Y vehicles that have its beta version of the "full self-driving" software enabled. "Full self-driving" is a controversial driver-assist feature that aims to one day allow cars to drive themselves.
Source: cnn.com
Archaeologists in southern Italy have discovered ancient warrior helmets and the ruins of a painted brick wall at a site that might have been a forerunner of a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena, officials said Tuesday. Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said the remains dug up at the popular tourist site of Velia were found on what had been an acropolis of one of Magna Graecia’s most important cities.
Source: apnews.com
Premier League clubs splashed out nearly £300 million in January -- the second-highest amount ever spent in the winter transfer window -- boosted by a flurry of late big-money moves. The arrivals of Luis Diaz, Bruno Guimaraes and Rodrigo Bentancur in the last few days of the month lifted the league's gross spending to £295 according to figures from finance company Deloitte. January 2018's figure of £430 million remains the record but this year's outlay is more than four times higher than last year's figure of £70 million, when the coronavirus crisis hit budgets.
Source: france24.com
within the country, with coronavirus no longer considered a "socially critical sickness," according to the government. This means that an indoor mask mandate, the use of a "Covid pass" for bars, restaurants and other indoor venues, and the legal obligation to self-isolate if you test positive are all ending.
Source: cnn.com
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