California wildfires rage across Los Angeles County, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes
The massive Palisades Fire broke out in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon, prompting mandatory evacuations affecting tens of thousands of people and highway closures. Later Tuesday, the Eaton Fire ...
The Particular Horror of the Los Angeles Wildfires
Southern California is no stranger to fires. But the dreadful blazes that began yesterday are potentially transformative.
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Live updates: Palisades Fire forces evacuations in Santa Monica as Southern California residents flee
A fast-moving wildfire broke out in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains on Tuesday morning amid extremely dangerous fire conditions in Southern California. Evacuations were ordered in Pacific Palisades ...
LA Mayor Karen Bass cut fire department funding by $17.6M — months before wildfires turned city into hellscape
The Los Angeles Fire Department had its budget cut by a staggering $17.6 million this financial year, records show — as fire crews continue to battle out-of-control blazes currently ravaging ...
Live Updates: At Least Two Killed as L.A. Wildfires Spread
Tens of thousands were under mandatory evacuation orders as multiple blazes raged out of control. Gusty winds hindered firefighting efforts and raised fears that flames could reach more populated ...
Mark Wright heads on an early morning run as he is seen for the first time since the death of his beloved grandfather Eddie
The former TOWIE star, 37, was seen for the first time since it was announced his beloved grandfather Eddie had died aged 92.
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NASA highlights Ghana’s declining forest reserves
In southwestern Ghana, a patchwork of tropical forest lies among widespread farmland dotted with towns. These forest fragments are remnants of the Upper Guinean forest of West Africa, a biodiversity ...
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NGOs appeal for improved health financing towards universal health coverage
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-NGOs, led by the Malawi SRHR Alliance, engaged with the Ministry of Health to discuss the progress of implementing Universal Health Coverage (UHC) targets in ...
From A Colonial Hill Town To Idris Elba's Island Masterplan, What Can Two Sierra Leone Developments A Century Apart Tell Us About Urban Elitism?
Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following ...
From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elites?
Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the ...
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Minecraft tool lets you create scale replicas of real-world locations
Hacker News brought an interesting new Minecraft world-generation tool to our attention. Arnis uses free geospatial data from ...
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Winners and losers of 2024 by Reuben Abati
He retired in November, one of the greats who played tennis in the modern era. Other standout sporting champions of 2024 include Rodri (Ballon d’Or), AitanaBonmati, (Ballon d’Or), Lamine Yamal, ...