Story By: Lee Bullen,Sub Editor: Joseph Golder,Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire A Chinese teenager dubbed the ‘king of balloons’ has won praise after these impressive photos of his rubbery works of art were shared by local media. Xu Wulong from the city of Xingyi in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou told local…
Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire These are the final images of a mother and her young son who died at a crowded theme park after the helium-powered balloon they were sitting floated away before plunging back to earth minutes later. The accident happened at the…
Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire This is the moment a meteorologist struggles to hold onto a weather balloon in gale-force winds that nearly send him flying off a building. The staff member with the Fuzhou Meteorological Bureau in Fujian Province in East China was waiting…
Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: CEN Video Credit: CEN/@wiredrat This is the chilling moment a balloon shaped like a tiny girl creeps down the stairs on its own, freaking out Twitter users where it has gone viral with almost two million views. The video was filmed by netizen ‘Wiredrat’ who is based in the…
Story By: Angjela Trajkovska, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Video Credit: CEN/@BcsProcivil A Project Loon hot air balloon launched by Google's parent company Alphabet to bring internet access to remote regions has crashed in a field in northern Mexico. The incident took place in the borough of Comondu in the north-western Mexican…
