Following an underwater volcano eruption in Tonga, a South Pacific island nation, oil spills on the Peruvian coast have polluted the environment. While the oil spill from Peru’s La Pampilla Refinery into the Pacific Ocean has been ongoing since Saturday, authorities have reported that the spill has spread to 4 kilometers of coastline. Authorities have […]
An Airbus A-300 type airliner, which became obsolete after operating in the aviation for many years, had been waiting in an unused state for 23 years at Istanbul Atatürk Airport in Turkey. After many years of waiting, the A-300 type airliner sold abroad to be used as a flight training device. However, the airliner disassembled […]
An elephant attacked a vehicle carrying four people, including two children, in South Africa’s Kwa-Zulu Natal province. A driver in another vehicle, who was recording the events, tried unsuccessfully to distract the elephant by honking his horn. The attacking elephant fled the area shortly after the incident, but the family was rescued by the authorities […]
One person was killed and nine others were injured during explosion in an apartment in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City, local authorities said. The deceased was a 77-year-old woman, and five of the nine injured were police officers, authorities added. A collapse occurred in the burning flat while the injured were being transported […]
A starving wild fox spotted eating with a stray cat on a street in Turkey’s Isparta. The incident was recorded by a pedestrian walking by. The recent cold wave in Turkey forces animal to search for food, where they usually end up feeding on in city centers.
The European Parliament has elected the Maltese born conservative lawyer Roberta Metsola as President after the death of former head David Sassoli. The MEPs elected Metsola in a single round with 458 votes out of a total of 616 ballot papers. A member of the European Parliament since 2013 and the first woman to hold […]
Two young men living in Antalya, Muhammet Doğan and Mehmet Uçan, covered their cars with ‘invalid’ US dollar and Euro banknotes to draw attention to the fact that these currencies are worthless to them after the sharp rise and fall in the Euro and the US dollar against Turkish lira. They exhibited the cars on […]
Israeli forces raided school in the village of Deir Nidham in the city of Ramallah, located in the West Bank region of Palestine. Israeli forces, who blindfolded and detained two students, Ramez al-Tamim and Ahmad al-Tamimi, attacked the school personnel who wanted to stop them. Israeli forces conduct such operaitons on a regular basis in […]
Heavy rains caused flooding in Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. Tens of thousands of houses were cut off and dozens of vehicles were dragged to flood water. Montevideo Mayor Carolina Cosse said no casualties or injuries have been reported. Cosse stated that the flood was caused by the drainage system which is not ready to collect the […]
The famed Russian stuntman Evgeny Chebotarev slide into windshield of a passenger van that was speeding 80 kilometers from the oppsite direction, lying on a platform placed on the road. Chebotarev, speeding through the vehicle, fell through the back door onto the road. Last September, Chebotarev was run over by a car and went through […]