An Australian is among the victims of South Korea’s Halloween stampede, where more than 150 people killed in a horror crowd crush.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed the news on Sunday as the department continues ‘urgent inquiries’ to assist other Australians caught up in the chaos.
‘The Australian embassy in Seoul has been notified of the death of an Australian at the tragic event in Seoul,’ DFAT said.
‘Consular officers from the Department of Foreign Affairs and
The idea of a floating city may sound like a concept from the latest science fiction blockbuster, but it’s set to become a reality in Busan, South Korea, where scientists backed by the UN are building the world’s first prototype floating city.
The project, called OCEANIX, was announced last year, but new design images have now been unveiled.
They show how interconnected platforms will cover a total of 15.5 acres, with enough space to accommodate 12,000 people.
Construction of the
In February 1994, in the grand ballroom of the town hall in Hamburg, Germany, the president of Estonia gave a remarkable speech. Standing before an audience in evening dress, Lennart Meri praised the values of the democratic world that Estonia then aspired to join. “The freedom of every individual, the freedom of the economy and trade, as well as the freedom of the mind, of culture and science, are inseparably interconnected,” he told the burghers of Hamburg. “They
Illustration by Ryan Inzana.
“To President Moon Jae In and the US Congress: True peace Can Only Come from True Freedom,” flashed the three-story-high digital advertisement in Times Square. “Hold the North Korean Regime Accountable & Free the North Korean People.” Rolling across the screen, the text continued, “H.R. 3446 and H.R. 826 Benefit North Korea and China. If Passed, the Bill Will Ultimately Dismantle the UN Command and Remove US Troops from S. Korea,” before ending next
The tweet has stuck with me for months now: a chart of cumulative COVID-19 deaths per capita in the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Korea. The U.S. and U.K. lines rise up like mountains relative to the valley of South Korea below. Even as Omicron-related deaths have increased in South Korea more recently, the picture hasn’t changed much.
South Korea “kept deaths 40 times lower all the way till 75% of population fully vaccinated,” the physician Vincent
If you’ve run out of ideas for a holiday somewhere beautifully exotic, help is at hand – this new book conjures up an intoxicating itinerary for a tour of the Far East with the stunning photographs revealing the region’s most alluring spots.
Far Far East – A Tribute To Faraway Asia, published by teNeues, showcases the work of Berlin-based photographer Patrick Pichler, who documented the towering beauty of Nepal’s mountains, serene national parks in China, and the metropolitan landscapes of
With a slew of raunchy TV shows featuring full frontal nudity, bondage and self pleasure, Netflix is fast gaining a reputation for racy content that wouldn’t be out of place on adult websites.
The streaming giant has filled our small screens with extremely erotic options – from the slightly more innocent, yet oh-so popular Bridgerton (which boasts plenty of steamy romantic entanglements) to the 2021 drama Sex/Life, which was dubbed ‘eight hours of sha****g’.
Reality TV show Too Hot to
President Joe Biden has been giving climate advocates heartburn.
In April, soon after rejoining the Paris Agreement, he set a goal: The United States would cut its greenhouse-gas pollution by 50 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. The White House promised that “a careful interagency process” had produced that goal, and at least a dozen reports from outside scholars and nonprofits argued that such an ambitious cut could be done. As a candidate, Biden had no shortage of plans for
Nicole Lawson spent the beginning of the pandemic incredibly worried about her daughter, who has asthma. Five-year-old Scarlett’s asthma attacks were already landing her in the ER or urgent care every few months. Now a scary new virus was spreading. Respiratory viruses are known triggers of asthma attacks, and doctors also feared at the time that asthma itself could lead to more severe coronavirus infections. So Lawson’s family in Ohio hunkered down quickly and masked up often to keep Scarlett
