2 h. ago Watch: Cargo ship leaks hazardous material into sea after sinking off Indian coast

Watch the moment a containership carrying oil and hazardous cargo sinks off the coast on India.

Transport

9 h. ago European fertiliser plants use US ammonia made with shale gas, investigation reveals

Despite green promises, Yara and BASF’s Texas factory relies on highly polluting natural gas from Permian BasinThe coastal city of Freeport, Texas is a dense tangle of metal pipes, tanks and towers. Located 60 miles south of Houston, it’s home to a sprawling petrochemical complex – one of the largest and most polluting in the US.Among its facilities is a plant dedicated to the production of ammonia, a colourless compound of nitrogen and hydrogen and a key ingredient in fertilisers widely used on industrial arable farms – including on fields of barley, wheat and maize across Europe.This article was supported by a grant from Journalismfund.eu Continue reading...

Economics

31 h. ago A cargo ship that ran aground in Norway, narrowly missing a house, is being towed to a nearby harbor

A cargo ship that ran aground in a Norwegian fjord and narrowly missed a house is being towed to a nearby harbor

Events

37 h. ago BBC reporter's horror as car driving into Liverpool parade crowd narrowly misses his family

BBC reporter Matt Porter said the car 'missed myself and my family by literally inches' at the Liverpool title parade yesterday - while a child is now confirmed to be among the two seriously injured

Society

56 h. ago Husband dismembered wife and kept body in 'crude coffin' at family home for five years

Evil John Smith hid his first wife's remains in plain sight at the family home before his second wife went missing, and his third was narrowly saved from danger by police

Society

57 h. ago Crew member charged after massive container ship ploughed into Norwegian man’s front garden

The ship, the NCL Salten, ran aground shortly before 6am on Thursday

Politics

57 h. ago Oil spill feared after cargo ship sinks off Kerala coast and containers wash ashore

Vessel carrying 450 tonnes of fuel submerged as the coast guard tried to block the oil with two ships

Transport

59 h. ago Prosecutors have charged a cargo ship's crew member after the vessel ran aground in Norway

Norwegian prosecutors have charged a cargo ship’s second officer with negligent navigation after he allegedly fell asleep on duty and the vessel ran aground, narrowly missing crashing into a home

Events

60 h. ago India's Kerala state on high alert as vessel with hazardous cargo sinks off its coast

Coastal areas of India’s southern state of Kerala are on high alert after a container ship carrying hazardous cargo sank off its coast in the Arabian Sea

Events

3 d. ago A crypto investor is charged with kidnapping and torturing a man in an NYC apartment for weeks

Officials say a cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged with kidnapping, assaulting and holding a man against his will for several weeks in an upscale Manhattan town house

Economics

4 d. ago Man wakes up to find 10,000 tonne cargo ship crashed into garden

A 10,000 cargo ship crashed into Johan Helberg's home in Norway but the sound of the collision did not even wake him up - the huge vessel was metres away from destroying his house

Events

4 d. ago Critics say the movement to defund the police failed. But Austin and Seattle are seeing progress

The rallying cry from 2020 Black Lives Matter protests pushed some US cities to divert money towards housing and community servicesAfter George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, protesters who swarmed the streets across the US shouted the refrain: “Defund the police.” An idea that was once viewed as radical – to redirect money from law enforcement to other city departments and social services – became a rallying cry overnight.As a result of continued pressure, dozens of jurisdictions throughout the nation promised to reduce their police budgets. While most of them backtracked and increased law enforcement funding in the next year or two, several cities changed policies or added new public safety and homeless services departments. Continue reading...

Events

5 d. ago A Norwegian man awoke to find a grounded cargo ship had narrowly missed his home

A Norwegian man awoke to discover that a cargo ship had run aground and narrowly missed crashing into his home along the Trondheim Fjord’s coast

Transport

6 d. ago Helicopter blade 'narrowly missed' Scots oil rig worker after it broke in high winds

"It narrowly missed the single deck crew member positioned at the rear of the helicopter, who was trying to attach the final strap to the helicopter."

Politics

6 d. ago ‘It was so unreal’: Norwegian man wakes to cargo ship in his garden

A 135-metre container vessel ran aground in Byneset, near Trondheim, narrowly missing a houseA Norwegian man has spoken of the “unreal” moment he woke up to discover that a 135-metre container ship had crashed into his front garden.The cargo vessel, the NCL Salten, had run aground just before 5am on Thursday after entering the Trondheim fjord on its way to the western town of Orkanger. Continue reading...

Transport

6 d. ago Dutch safety board calls for urgent improvements after deadly North Sea cargo ship blaze

A Dutch safety watchdog says that protocols for responding to emergencies on busy North Sea shipping routes off the Dutch coast must be urgently improved

Events

6 d. ago Broken helicopter blade ‘narrowly missed’ worker on oil rig, report finds

The incident occurred on the Elgin Oil Platform in the North Sea in February 2023 during Storm Otto.

Politics

6 d. ago Key target for NHS waiting times in Wales narrowly missed after First Minister's promise

The First Minister had made a pledge to cut the longest waiting times and it was very nearly achieved

Politics

7 d. ago Wharfs, barges, towpaths: why aristos, city boys and girls and hipsters have fallen for life on the river

Anyone who is anyone now lives on wharfs and towpaths, says Alice Cockerell

Politics

7 d. ago Boys aged 14 and 15 deny launching chair 50 feet off top floor of Westfield Stratford shopping centre in internet prank

The boys, aged 14 and 15, were arrested after a viral video showed the incident at Westfield, east London , on March 1, where a chair was thrown and narrowly missed shoppers walking below.

Economics