PARIS — France’s high-speed rail network was hit Friday with widespread and “criminal” acts of vandalism including arson attacks, paralyzing travel to Paris from across the rest of France and Europe only hours before the grand opening ceremony of the Olympics. Germany’s national railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, said there were short-notice cancellations and delays of … Read more
PARIS — France’s high-speed rail network was hit Friday with widespread and “criminal” acts of vandalism including arson attacks, paralyzing travel to Paris from across the rest of France and Europe only hours before the grand opening ceremony of the Olympics. Germany’s national railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, said there were short-notice cancellations and delays of … Read more
JAMMU, India — The putrid smell of burning garbage wafts for miles from the landfill on the outskirts of Jammu in a potentially toxic miasma fed by the plastics, industrial, medical and other waste generated by a city of some 740,000 people. But a handful of waste pickers ignore both the fumes and suffocating heat … Read more
Two drivers have been hospitalised and traffic is being diverted after two trucks were involved in a fiery crash in Sydney’s northwest. The trucks collided on Bandon Rd and Chapman Rd at Vineyard about 12.30pm on Thursday. One of the drivers, a 50-year-old man, “was ejected from the truck” in the crash and taken to … Read more
A dog was rescued from a burning Western Sydney unit on Tuesday morning, as a fire raged in the unit complex at Lethbridge Park about 3am. Residents from the adjoining units, who were in the building on Hawaii Ave at the time, fled from the flames. They alerted attending firefighters to the second-storey unit, where … Read more
LOS ANGELES — Zsela leans into the ebb and flow of uncertainty and invites listeners to do the same throughout her debut album “Big For You.” The album, written over four years, follows Zsela’s 2020 EP “Ache of Victory,” which she describes as “an imprint of time.” “I’m connected to it since it’ll always be … Read more
Morgan Talty has followed up on the success of his prize-winning story collection “Night of the Living Rez” with a poignant first novel that explores the charged question of what constitutes identity — family or tribe? “Fire Exit” is narrated by a white man named Charles, who lives across the river from the Penobscot Nation … Read more
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A fire believed to have been caused by a short circuit has destroyed part of Miniland, a section of the Legoland theme park in western Denmark with replicas of famous buildings made of Lego bricks, the park said Wednesday. Video surveillance showed that the fire started in one of the electric cars … Read more
A blaze erupted in a silo containing hundreds of tonnes of grain at a factory south of Sydney on Monday morning. Fifteen people were evacuated from the Bomaderry facility, but firefighters are still on site on Tuesday afternoon to finish the mammoth task of clearing the smouldering grain from the silo. The fire was detected … Read more
A man has been charged over an alleged assault and deliberately lit fire in NSW. The 40-year-old man allegedly assaulted his neighbour — a 56-year-old man — at a unit on Crown St in West Wollongong about 12pm on Monday. Paramedics treated the older man at the unit for facial injuries before taking him to … Read more
