Shrinking snow caps in the Himalayas are causing the spread of toxic green algae so big it can be seen from space, a new study has found. US research based on NASA images found blooms of the marine species Noctiluca scintillans, known as ‘sea sparkle’, lining coastlines around the Arabian Sea. Noctiluca scintillans, a millimetre-size … Read more
Revealed at last: Secret buyer of the Ritz who paid £800m for the iconic London hotel is Qatari businessman Abdulhadi Mana Al-Hajri By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 22 April 2020 | Updated: 22:54 BST, 22 April 2020 Ever since The Ritz was snapped up last month for £800 million making … Read more
Pakistani PM Imran Khan urges western governments to waive debt repayments as he warns more people in developing countries will starve under coronavirus lockdowns than will be killed by the disease Pakistan has recorded 5,183 infections, with 88 deaths, so far in the pandemic Its already-struggling economy has been hit hard by the nationwide lockdowns … Read more
A mother of ‘miracle quadruplets’ who died of coronavirus feared she was infected at Heathrow Airport while working for British Airways, her heartbroken husband has told The Mail on Sunday. Shabnum Sadiq, 39, was employed as a customer care relations manager for BA at Heathrow’s Terminal 5. Before falling ill she had told her husband … Read more
Mother-of-five, 39, dies of coronavirus, leaving behind miracle quadruplets, who are still only 13 Shabnum Sadiq fell ill with coronavirus after travelling for a wedding in March She was battling to breathe on a ventilator for 24 days before she died yesterday Dedicated councillor’ from Slough was mother of miracle quadruplets, now 13 By Georgia … Read more
Pakistani Muslims clashed with police trying to enforce new curbs on gatherings to prevent Friday prayers and contain coronavirus infections, officials said. TV footage showed dozens of people chasing two police vehicles and pelting them with stones as an officer fired in the air to disperse the crowd. The astonishing video outside a Karachi mosque … Read more
A Pakistani court has overturned the death sentence of a British-born Islamist militant convicted of beheading a US journalist in 2002. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, of Wanstead, in east London, UK, was found guilty of the abduction and murder of south Asia bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl, in 2002. Pearl, 38, disappeared in … Read more
One in four new NHS medics come from countries that are ‘banned’ from working for the health service, figures have revealed. The NHS’ Code of Practice lists 97 nations that ‘should not be actively recruited from’ because they receive aid or suffer from a shortages of medics. But an investigation has shown certain NHS trusts … Read more
Nearly 90 pounds of elephant ivory discovered at 800 year old workshop site in Pakistan, revealing new details about the prized possession’s economic role in ancient times Archaeologists in the ancient city of Bhanbore discovered a huge cache of ivory The small fragments indicate the ivory was used to make decorative items The items were likely … Read more
Pakistan’s farmers are struggling to combat the worst locust plague in nearly three decades as insect swarms decimate entire harvests in the country’s agricultural heartlands and send food prices soaring. Heavy rains and cyclones sparked ‘unprecedented’ breeding and the explosive growth of locust populations on the Arabian peninsula early last year, according to the United … Read more