Image copyright AFP Image caption Locals walk past the “mud lake” which buried vehicles and machinery At least 54 jade miners are feared to have died after they were buried in mud while sleeping in northern Myanmar. Police said the landslide in Kachin state was so great it created a “mud lake” that engulfed the…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe footage shows a man wearing a large backpack calmly walking towards St Sebastian’s church The Islamic State (IS) group may be linked to bomb blasts which killed 321 people and wounded 500 in Sri Lanka, the country’s prime minister has said. Ranil Wickremesinghe said the government…
Image copyright Tarrant County Jail Image caption The girl was forced to work for Mohamed Touré and his wife Denise Cros-Touré A couple who enslaved a young woman for 16 years at their home in the US have been sentenced to seven years in jail. Mohamed Touré and his wife Denise Cros-Touré, both 58, were…
Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption Prolonged disorders of consciousness are usually caused by a sudden brain injury A woman from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who was seriously injured in a traffic accident in 1991 has made a seemingly miraculous recovery after emerging from a 27-year-long coma.Munira Abdulla, who was aged 32 at…
Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg has said that climate change is an “existential crisis” and has urged politicians to “listen to the scientists”.She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the onus was on “corporations and states” to bring about change.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRemember President Trump’s last UK visit in July 2018? US President Donald Trump will make a three-day state visit to the UK from 3 to 5 June, Buckingham Palace has announced.The president and First Lady Melania Trump will be guests of the Queen and attend a ceremony…
(WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court is taking on a major test of LGBT rights in cases that look at whether federal civil rights law bans job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The justices said Monday they will hear cases involving people who claim they were fired because of their sexual…
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Democrat Elizabeth Warren is proposing the elimination of existing student loan debt for millions of Americans, part of a sweeping set of education funding proposals announced as she and other presidential candidates seek to differentiate themselves in a sprawling field. The Massachusetts senator says the proposal unveiled Monday would eliminate almost all…
BOSTON — U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton is the latest Democrat to jump in the race for the White House. The Massachusetts lawmaker and Iraq War veteran made the announcement on his website Monday. Moulton first came to prominence in 2014 when he unseated long-term incumbent Rep. John Tierney in a Democratic primary and went on…