GETTY Hurricane Irma has left more than three million businesses and homes without power The storm has affected the biggest power company in Florida, Florida Power & Light’s (FPL). FPL said more than 2.9million of its customers were without power by 7.40pm EDT (12.40pm BST), mostly in Miami-Dade, Broward and […]
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PLANTATION, Fla. — Hurricane Irma turned its fury on Florida’s Gulf Coast after making two landfalls Sunday and raking the southern half of the state with ferocious winds and torrential rains. The center of Irma’s eye passed over Cudjoe Key at 9:10 a.m. ET, the National Hurricane Center reported, and […]
The State Department said Sunday that more than 1,200 U.S. have been evacuated from the hurricane-damaged island vacation hot spot of St. Maarten amid reports of looting and violence — but the Dutch government said reports of a prison break were “unfounded.” The evacuations by military flights to Puerto Rico […]
President Trump approved a £11.37billion ($15billion) bill on Sunday that means residents and businesses can apply for grants for temporary housing, home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses and other programs. The federal government will also reimburse counties for emergency protective measures including evacuation and sheltering costs, as […]
Glasgow-born Lorraine Gilmartin Blevins was on the 60th floor of the World Trade Centre’s south tower when the first hijacked plane struck the north tower. The 47-year-old escaped the carnage after ignoring announcements telling staff to stay put. Fifteen years on, the financial expert, who still works for her World […]
Father of boy born with two toes and cerebral palsy desperate for him to go to school THE father of a young boy born with just two toes on each foot says his greatest hope is to see his boy go to school one day. Duan Deyuan, dad of the […]
The 21-year-old was one of two holidaymakers who was raped within 90 minutes of each other on Friday morning. The two women – the Briton and a 20-year-old tourist – were attacked between 7.30am and 9am in the resort on the island of Majorca. A third woman, a German aged […]
Although little-known today, the American Army conducted several experiments using LSD as well as other drugs from 1948 to 1975 – in the hope of using the hallucinogenic substance as WARFARE. The rare video shows a test at Edgewood Arsenal Facility, Maryland in 1958 as part of a Government research […]