Henry Zeffman Chief political correspondent BBC Listen to Henry read this article “Could this be like the 1920s where the Liberals got overtaken by Labour – but this time it’s the Conservative Party being overtaken by Reform?” It’s an interesting question – perhaps a little niche. But it’s certainly not a question you’d expect to...
War-torn Sudan is now “on the brink” of a public health disaster as cholera and other deadly diseases spread, aid group, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has warned. In just one week, Sudan’s Health Ministry recorded that 172 people have died due to a cholera outbreak, posting on Facebook that most of the new cases...
After an implosion on a Titanic dive, investigators search for the truth. Read full article at source...
I wrote about this topic last week based on a couple articles I’d read about how the use of AI by high school and college students has changed things. Students no longer have to work hard or even at all to complete major assignments in classes like English, History, etc. Anyone who has a computer...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. After devastating fires tore through Los Angeles in January, a crew of more than 300 young people showed up to help, many of them members of the national service program AmeriCorps. Among them was Julian Nava-Cortez, who traveled from northern California...
David Spereall BBC News, Yorkshire Getty Images Fifty-four Bradford supporters and two Lincoln fans died in the disaster Forty years ago this weekend, what should have been a day of celebration for Bradford City turned into one of tragedy as a fire swept through the club’s home ground and claimed the lives of 56 fans....
On Saturday night Lady Gaga performed for her biggest audience ever, two million people on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. However, the evening could have ended in disaster for the huge crowds in Brazil. Police said they thwarted a bomb attack that was planned to take place at the concert. The BBC’s Mimi Swaby...
No Forest supporters died at Hillsborough, but there were 28,000 of them in the ground to witness the tragedy unfold. In 2016, inquests concluded that the Liverpool fans who had died had been unlawfully killed. Forest have previously paid tribute to those who lost their lives in the disaster by leaving 97 seats vacant when...
Will Grant Mexico, Central America and Cuba Correspondent Reporting from Santo Domingo Getty Images Maximo Peña had been coming to the Jet Set nightclub every single Monday for the past 30 years. This week, excited to see a concert by the popular Dominican singer Rubby Pérez, he took his wife and his sister. Now all...
Peter Gillibrand & Tom Richardson BBC Newsbeat Rebellion Atomfall is inspired by a fire at a nuclear reactor in Cumbria in 1957 Fukushima. Three Mile Island. Chernobyl. Places that will forever be remembered as the sites of nuclear disasters. Most people will have heard of them. But fewer are aware of the Windscale fire. It...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Every Friday, as he’s done for the last year and a half, Mark Broyles hops in his truck and drives 20 minutes from his home in Big Stone Gap to Duffield, Virginia, to pick up two boxes of free food. Though...