Three areas to watch have been designated in the eastern Pacific while long range models hint the Atlantic basin may be starting to awaken. Computer forecasts continue to indicate that a fairly robust disturbance will move off Africa about Monday. The track is forecast to be far enough south that it won’t immediately plow into […]
A stretch toy figure of Marvel’s The Hulk, said to be “one of the rarest stretch toys in existence”, has sold for £3,900. The toy was sold at Excalibur Auctions, in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, on Saturday having been expected to fetch between £3,000 and £5,000. It is said to be one of only 30 examples […]
Supporters of the recall movement are seen gathering in Taipei, Taiwan. Jan Camenzind Broomby for Newsportu hide caption toggle caption Jan Camenzind Broomby for Newsportu Taipei, TAIWAN — Opposition lawmakers in Taiwan have survived a bid to recall them from the island’s legislature, and will therefore retain a controlling parliamentary majority. The months-long recall campaign […]
As violence and rights abuses rage on, the coalition pledges to pursue a ‘secular, democratic’ and decentralised Sudan. A Sudanese coalition led by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group has announced it is establishing an alternative government in a challenge to the military-led authorities in the capital Khartoum, with the northeastern African country’s brutal […]
New York, Boston and much of the Northeast can expect to see smoky skies as smoke from Canadian wildfires blows into the area. Air Quality Alerts are in place in New York and Vermont as well. BOSTON — Smoke from Canadian wildfires pushed into the Northeast Saturday, bringing hazy skies and unhealthy air quality to […]
Mary McCool BBC Scotland News Trump waves at the cameras while playing golf at Turnberry A major security operation has ramped up as Donald Trump played golf on the first day of his private visit to Scotland. The US president teed off at his luxury resort Trump Turnberry in South Ayrshire at about 10:00, having […]
Taiwanese people go to vote at a polling station in Taipei, Taiwan, on Saturday to determine whether to oust about one-fifth of their lawmakers, all from the opposition Nationalist Party, in elections. ChiangYing-ying/AP/AP hide caption toggle caption ChiangYing-ying/AP/AP Taiwanese voters rejected a bid to oust about one-fifth of their lawmakers, all from the opposition Nationalist […]
Kansas City is experiencing a reprieve from the recent heat wave, but it comes at a cost: severe storms and very heavy rain. The city already broke a daily rainfall record on Thursday, and the deluge isn’t over yet. FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray is live from Kansas City, Missouri, where MoDOT has reported water over […]
A group of uniformed men, at least one of them masked, walk up to a pair of watermelon sellers in a street on the outskirts of the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. The men are dressed in black, wearing tactical vests with patches bearing the emblem of a bogatyr – a mythic warrior of Slavic folklore […]
Reuters International concern has risen this week with warnings that starvation has gripped Gaza Almost one in three people in the Gaza Strip are going for days without eating, the UN’s food aid programme has warned. “Malnutrition is surging with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment,” the World Food Programme (WFP) said […]