Hurricane Helene hit the Florida coastline as a category 4 hurricane with mean wind speeds of 140mph, making it the strongest hurricane on record to strike the Florida Big Bend region. It carried on northwards through several states in the south-eastern US, causing significant devastation. Two hundred people are known to have died, making it…
Former president Barack Obama will crisscross the battleground states for Kamala Harris, with a kickoff in all-important Pennsylvania next week, according to a senior Harris campaign official. Obama will hold his first event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania next Thursday, the beginning of a blitz across the handful of rust belt and sun belt states that will…
Ed Miliband has urged his party to stop selling access to senior government ministers, after it emerged Labour had offered company bosses breakfast with the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, for up to £30,000. The energy secretary defended his cabinet colleague on Friday, saying he knew nothing about the breakfast, details of which were revealed by…
Queensland police have cast a nationwide and international call to women linked to the husband of a woman who was found dead in suspicious circumstances near a lawnmower. Police on Friday said Robert Crawford had “connected” with women across Australia and around the world, including some via dating apps, before Frances Crawford’s death in the…
A man living in a Florida island city that was inundated with Hurricane Helene’s deadly storm surge reportedly used his surfboard to rescue about a dozen of his neighbors – as well as pets – from flooded homes. As told by WTVT, Marty Thomas’s heroics on Indian Rocks Beach provided one of a precious few…
Billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart not only wanted two unflattering portraits of her removed from exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia; she wanted them “permanently disposed of”. According to emails released by the museum under freedom of information laws on Thursday, Rinehart sought the assistance of the NGA’s chair, Ryan Stokes, on 8 April,…
West Calder, West Lothian Between Edinburgh (23 miles) and Glasgow (34 miles) sits this a contemporary four-bedroom, three-bathroom home built in 2007. It has large double doors from the kitchen to garden, and a Juliet balcony from the main bedroom at the back. The rear garden stretches to established woodland beyond. About three hectares of…
Labor has set up the electoral battle for Fowler that could have taken place in 2022, announcing Tu Le as its candidate to take on the popular independent Dai Le. Tu Le was considered the shoo-in for preselection in the western Sydney seat, having won the backing of the former long-term Labor MP Chris Hayes…
The Israeli military launched a series of strikes on southern Beirut on Thursday night, in one of the most intense bombardments on the city since the campaign began last week. A source close to Hezbollah told the AFP news agency that Israel had conducted 11 consecutive strikes on the group’s stronghold in the Lebanese capital.…
It may be tempting to add cardboard, plastic, old clothing and other waste to your home fire to keep warm and save money. But a study has shown that burning waste indoors has serious consequences for air pollution and especially for the amount of cancer-causing chemicals in the air. Stoves and fireplaces cause about 29%…
