Category Current Affairs

A man was arrested in connection with a road crash in Co Donegal this morning who left two people dead and three seriously injured has been released without charge.   A man and a woman in their twenties were killed.…

Mark Lewis, who is a famed libel and privacy lawyer, is leaving UK. Worn down by years of anti-Semitic abuse and death threats, he chose to leave.   Anti-semitism is hostility to prejudice or discrimination against Jews. It is generally…

American “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin, who became the first woman inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of fame, has died in Detroit at the age of 76.   Aretha was diagnosed with cancer in 2010. She announced last year,…

Indian officials have said, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, flooding caused by heavy monsoon rain has killed at least 73 people. It has also shut down an airport and displaced more than 85,00 people.   Because of the…

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has just released a grand jury report, which disclosed more than a thousand children were molested by hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in six Pennsylvania dioceses.   The report investigates clergy sexual abuse since 1947 in…

According to Italian media, including RAI and La Republic, 22 people have died after a section of a highway bridge in northern Italy partially collapsed.   Italian news agency ANSA reported that several crushed vehicles are under the rubble with…

One man has been arrested after a car crashed into security barriers outside the parliament building in London. A number of people were injured due to the accident.   According to what London Police said on Twitter, “The male driver…

A pier collapsed during an urban music festival causing about 300 people to be  injured and five seriously injured. The promenade collapse happened as Mallorcan rap artist Rels B was performing as part of the two-day O Marisquino festival in…

Ryanair pilots are striking in five European countries, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights during the holiday season peak.   The 24-hour walk-out involves staff in Germany, Sweden, Ireland, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The action is the largest in…