PARIS (France): The second largest Emperor penguin colony on Earth has suffered a “catastrophic” breeding failure after nearly all chicks born over three years died as their icy Antarctic habitat shrinks, researchers said Thursday. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) used satellite imagery to study the behaviour of the Halley Bay
NEW YORK (United States): A drawing by late South African leader Nelson Mandela of the door of his prison cell on Robben Island – where he was held for 18 years – will be put up for auction in early May in New York. Bonhams, which will host the sale
BEIRA (Mozambique): A powerful cyclone pounded northern Mozambique on Friday, leaving one person dead and wrecking homes and communications, barely a month after the country was hit by one of the worst storms in its history. Cyclone Kenneth, a Category Three storm on the hurricane scale, made landfall in Cabo
Tripoli (Libya): Migrants and refugees have been shot and wounded in a detention centre south of Tripoli as Libyan fighters battle for control of the capital, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Friday. Clashes between Libya’s Tripoli-based unity government forces and fighters of military commander Khalifa Haftar have raged since April
MONGLA (Myanmar): Bentleys and BMW convertibles roll up to the “Venetian Casino” in Mongla on the Myanmar-China border, a melting pot of sex, drugs and gambling on a frontier that has also become a “supermarket” for illegally traded wildlife. This area of Myanmar is largely self-governed – lying within the
BEIRUT (Lebanon): Attacks by two jihadist groups killed at least 17 Syrian government troops and militiamen in the northern province of Aleppo early yesterday, a war monitor said. Thirty others were wounded in the assaults by Al-Qaeda’s former Syria branch, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and its ally Hurras al-Deen, which
SHANGHAI: The two best badminton players in the world will battle it out in today’s final of the Asia Championships when title-holder Kento Momota faces Shi Yuqi. The women’s decider in the Chinese city of Wuhan is another Japan versus China showdown with Akane Yamaguchi taking on He Bingjiao. The
BARCELONA (Spain): Rafael Nadal held off Jan-Lennard Struff 7-5, 7-5 in the Barcelona Open quarter-finals on Friday to move closer to setting an ATP record as the first player to win the same event 12 times. Nadal must first get through yesterday’s semi-final between 2017 finalist Dominic Thiem, who crushed
BAKU (Azerbaijan): Ferrari dominated the second practice session of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Friday, but the action on the street circuit was marred by the bizarre sight of a Williams car tripped up by a loose drain cover and a collision with a bridge which took out a rescue
LOS ANGELES (United States): Minjee Lee, who is seeking her fifth title on the USLPGA Tour, fired a two-under 69 in the second round of the Los Angeles Open to take a one shot lead over Nanna Koerstz Madsen. The fourth-ranked Lee, of Australia, had an eagle, two birdies and
