Days of heavy rain in monsoon season flooded the streets of Mumbai, India’s financial capital, with residents complaining about the fact that the floods “happen every year”. Several homes were crushed by a collapsed wall and the deluge triggered a fatal landslide.
Nairobi (AFP) – Inside the rundown building in Kariobangi-North, it’s almost entirely women and girls, all training under the watchful eye of boxing coach Alfred Analo Anjere — founder of BoxGirls Kenya. In 14 years, more than 3,000 girls and women have taken up the sport at the centre. All started out for the same reason — wanting to defend themselves in their gritty neighbourhoods, which are harsh worlds where poverty prevails and it is survival of the fittest.
Days of heavy rain in monsoon season flooded the streets of Mumbai, India's financial capital, with residents complaining about the fact that the floods "happen every year". Several homes were crushed by a collapsed wall and the deluge triggered a fatal landslide.
The Olympic Games are opportunities for athletes around the world and any politically motivated boycotts are a violation of their rights, said a Chinese former Olympic champion.
Banda Aceh (Indonesia) (AFP) – Thousands of Muslims pack the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh, in Indonesia’s Sumatra island, to hold prayers to mark the Eid al-Adha festival, despite a surge in Covid-19 cases in the Southeast Asian country.
The pilot of a banner plane made an emergency landing Monday on a bridge in southern New Jersey, snarling traffic but causing no injuries, authorities said. Witnesses said Landon Lucas landed without incident after reporting engine trouble. (July 20)
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos launched into space aboard a Blue Origin spacecraft he funded.
China is expected to see an increase in infant and toddler products as it lifts its birth rate cap and allows couples to have up to three children. China has been gradually loosening its birth policies that, for decades, limited most families to only one child.
Jeff Bezos has blasted into space on his rocket company's first flight with passengers on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Their Blue Origin capsule landed 10 minutes later on the desert floor in West Texas. (July 20)
As the tattoo needle moves on her wrist creating an image of angel's wings and the word “Dad,” Rakshita Gupta, a designer of home furnishings, recalls what her father, who died two months ago of COVID-19, means to her and her sister. “He taught us to be independent, he taught us to be brave, he gave us all the freedom we need, he taught me everything I knew,” Gupta said with a shiver as she sat with her sister in a tattoo studio, Inkinn, in the Indian capital.
The UK Met Office has issued an amber level extreme heat warning, the first time this type of advisory has been issued in 167 years operating. CNN Meteorologist Karen Maginnis has the forecast.
Utøya (Norway) (AFP) – Ten years after the bloodiest massacre in Norwegian history, the survivors of the Utoya shooting are still looking to challenge the far-right ideology that motivated the killing of 77 innocent people. The island, located in a lake to the west of Oslo, looks very different to how it did on that fateful day when Anders Behring Breivik turned his guns on a summer camp.
