Speculation about the missing Chinese Defence Minister Gen. Li Shangfu may have been removed and detained became rife after he was conspicuously absent at the meeting of the Central Military Commission (CMC) here on Friday. Regarded as a close confidante of President Xi Jinping, Gen. Li has not been seen in public since early this […]
Residents and rescue workers in the devastated Libyan city of Derna are struggling to cope with the thousands of corpses washing up or decaying under rubble, after a flood that smashed down buildings and swept people to sea. The World Health Organisation and other aid groups urged authorities in Libya to stop burying flood victims […]
Simultaneous rainfall and heat extremes will become more frequent, severe and widespread due to climate change, more so than dry-hot conditions, scientists say. For every 1 degree Celsius rise in temperature, the air’s capacity to hold moisture increases by 6 to 7 per cent. The hot-and-humid air, thus, makes more water available to fall as […]