CEN/@vadim.lukashevich.7 Officials have been accused of trying to hide the fact that Russian airline Aeroflot has emergency escape slides on its Sukhoi aircraft that do not work properly. The official even leaked this video of one of several tests carried out where the inflatable device tumbles from the exit door…
A US university based in Qatar has cancelled a speech by the openly-gay singer Lebanese rock band Mashrou’ Leila amid fears for student safety. However, a spokesperson for the Northwestern University (NU-Q) in Qatar in the municipality of Ar-Rayyan in eastern Qatar claimed the cancellation was out of “safety concerns”.…
A Singapore judge has acquitted an Australian woman accused of forcing her maid to clean a second-storey glass awning without safety measures in place. The district judge ruled on 28th January that the Philippine maid, identified as Ms Taculad Rose Mae Mata, had given uncorroborated evidence of the incident and…
Picture Credtit: CEN/@ffarnoldstein.at An Austrian man responsible for preparing a frozen lake for an ice skating event has died after the car he was using broke through the surface and sank. The 68-year-old, who was not named for legal reasons, was using the car to prepare the surface of the…
AsiaWire This distressing footage shows a young monkey screeching in pain as it is electrocuted by a live wire before its sibling rushes to its rescue. The dramatic incident was captured by witnesses inside Qianling Park in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou Province in south-western China, on 4th January. In the…
