At least 95 people have been killed, and hundreds of tourists are missing, after a massive flash flood and mudslide on the Nepal-Tibet border. The missing tourists include more than 100 from India and 12 from the UK, according to Nepal’s tourist board. The area is popular with pilgrims andContinue Reading
The BBC has been given a rare glimpse at how the Taliban is running Afghanistan, five years after it swept aside a US-backed government in the country to return to power. In that time, women have been excluded from most workplaces, banned from universities and may not travel alone orContinue Reading
Police have named the five people killed in a wrong-way collision that also killed two police officers on Saturday in Middlesbrough, UK. Michael Robert Cahill, 23, Theo Rae, 17, Cole Robert Worthy, 17, Jacob Matusiak, 23, and Makai Saddington, 18 died in the crash. Two serving Cleveland Police officers, PCContinue Reading
A Chinese humanoid robot has run 100 metres in 9.39 seconds in a preliminary heat at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, surpassing the men’s world record time held by Jamaican sprinting great Usain Bolt. Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, won its heat atContinue Reading
Greenock, a Scottish town to the west of Glasgow, is losing residents quickly. It’s in Inverclyde, the population of which has fallen by 22,000 people since 1981, making it Scotland’s hardest-hit area for population decline. The issue has become so pressing that the council is implementing a repopulation strategy, partContinue Reading
