By Alina Dizik After more than three decades working as a flight attendant, Sandy Stein, now 65, finally hit the jackpot. Stein was 53 when she invented the finders key purse, a tool that hooks onto a handbag and makes it simple to lift out your keys rather than digging for them. That year, she … Read more
The bridge connected two small islands off Bali’s south-east coast A bridge connecting two small islands near the Indonesian resort island of Bali has collapsed, killing at least nine people, officials say. People were passing over the suspension bridge for a religious ceremony when the accident occurred, a police officer told Reuters news agency. The … Read more
Debris flies through the air as the eye of Hurricane Matthew nears Daytona Beach Hurricane Matthew battered the southeast coast early Saturday with powerful winds, storm surges and torrential rain, leaving six people dead and more than 1 million people without power in its wake as officials made last-minute appeals for any remaining holdouts to … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of people in Florida and South Carolina have been told to evacuate as Hurricane Matthew churns towards the US east coast. “This is a serious storm,” warned President Barack Obama, adding that it would have a “significant” impact on Florida by Thursday morning. Traffic jams are reported in the city of Charleston, … Read more
Tropical storm Hermine has made landfall in northern Florida, becoming the first hurricane to hit the state in 11 years. Hermine hit the Florida Gulf Coast early on Friday as a category one hurricane, bringing with it a heavy storm surge. Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for 51 counties as residents were … Read more
Rhian Benson is enigmatic — enigmatic because she defies categorization; enigmatic because her life and her music are framed by paradox. Complex and cerebral, Rhian’s music is simultaneously warm and soulful, empathetic and ethereal. She’s been compared to a diverse range of artists, from Jill Scott to Seal to Sade; from Enya to Lauryn Hill; … Read more
The condition of the comic was rated as 5.5 out of 10 A rare copy of the comic in which Superman made his debut has been sold at auction for $956,000 (£728,000). Action Comics No 1 cost 10 cents when it first went on sale in 1938. The copy sold by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions is … Read more
The Italian navy has recovered another 24 bodies from an overturned fishing boat during rescue operations for the thousands of would-be refugees who are fleeing Libyan shores for Europe. The navy said Tuesday that two of its patrol boats recovered the corpses from the capsized smuggler’s boat Sunday night. Their remains, as well as 364 … Read more
Attempts to recycle E-waste and donations of old electronic devices are harming poor people’s health and devastating the environment, writes Nele Goutier. Agbogbloshie, once an idyllic landscape of wetlands and small farms, is now the most toxic place in the world … “Eleven years ago Agbogbloshie was an amazingly beautiful place with rivers, a lagoon … Read more