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The death toll of Sunday’s Indian glacier flood disaster could reach nearly 200 with dozens already confirmed dead as a desperate search continued on Tuesday for the 165 people still missing. Hundreds of rescue workers were scouring muck-filled ravines and valleys in northern India on Tuesday looking for survivors after part of a Himalayan glacier … Read more
Scarlett Moffatt detailed how she overcame ‘the worst date I’ve ever been on’ with her boyfriend of two-years Scott Dobinson to become each other’s yin and yang. In an exclusive interview with MailOnline on Thursday, the TV personality, 30, lovingly declared ‘they are meant to be together’ as she confessed to feeling used during relationships in … Read more
Let’s play a game. Imagine you were Secretary of State for Transport, and executives from the quango Highways England came to see you with a wheeze about how to increase motorway capacity at relatively little cost. You’d listen — of course you would. But I wager your jaw would drop in disbelief when the so-called … Read more
Removing coronavirus restrictions at the end of next month would be a ‘disaster’ and put ‘enormous pressure’ on the NHS, a leading epidemiologist has warned. Professor John Edmunds, who works on the Government’s coronavirus response as part of the scientific advisory group for emergencies (Sage), told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme there would be significant consequences … Read more
The warning came — as life-changing warnings so often do — completely out of the blue. I simply wasn’t ready for it and, anyway, life is scary enough as it is. Ocado has warned that prepared carrots are out of stock. Tesco has issued a similar warning in relation to packs of cauliflower. The significance … Read more
Building firms linked to Britain’s unsafe housing crisis have made more than £15billion in profit since the Grenfell Tower disaster. The astonishing success of major property developers and construction companies has allowed them to pay shareholders dividends of £5billion. The biggest ten firms paid their chief executives an average total salary of £2million in the … Read more
Lord Mersey’s private journal reveals notes of the mistakes he believed led to the sinking of the ship A documentary is about to reveal the private journal of the judge who investigated the Titanic disaster and wrote in his notes mistakes he had found out such as ‘travelling at ‘excessive speed’ despite ice warnings’. British jurist … Read more
Southern California hospitals are being inundated with coronavirus patients and do not have enough oxygen to treat those who are the most critically ill. The supply issue led to at least five Los Angeles County hospitals declaring an ‘internal disaster’ on Sunday, which included turning away all incoming ambulances with patients. The Los Angeles County … Read more
Romantic proposal ends in disaster when man’s new fiancee topples 650ft off a snowy Austrian mountain moments after saying yes Woman, 32, from St Pölten, Austria, said yes after the proposal on December 27 Partner, 27, tried to catch her when she fell from Falkert mountain in Carinthia He was rescued by helicopter and the snow … Read more
Dozens are missing and at least nine people have been injured in a massive night-time landslide in a Norwegian town. Homes were buried under a huge slick of mud at 4am in the village of Ask, in the municipality of Gjerdrum, 12 miles north of Oslo. Photos show at least eight homes were swept away … Read more