At least three people were killed, officials said, when a damaging tornado ripped through Brunswick County, North Carolina, around midnight on February 15-16.
WWAY reporter Tanner Barth said he was at Ocean Ridge Plantation when he shot this footage showing extensive damage.
ABC11 said this was the worst-hit area, and that all confirmed fatalities were there. Credit: WWAY/Tanner Barth via Storyful
The Tokyo Olympics should take place before a live audience, Japan's new Olympics chief has said, despite concerns about hosting the Games during a global pandemic.
Mikkola won 18 world championship rallies and took the title at the wheel of an Audi Quattro -- a first for an all-wheel drive car. He was also three times the world championship runner-up and won his home 1,000 Lakes event on a record seven occasions. In 1979 he helped Ford take the manufacturers' title but lost out in the drivers' championship to Sweden's Bjoern Waldegaard by a single point.
New Mexico health officials on Friday confirmed an additional 659 COVID-19 infections, the highest daily case count in more than three weeks. Nearly 30% of the new cases involved state inmates. In all, New Mexico has reported nearly 185,000 cases since the pandemic began.
Hundreds of people in Bangladesh took part Saturday in a second day of demonstrations sparked by the death of a writer at a high security prison in a case that has drawn international concern.
Militant attacks are on the rise in Pakistan amid a growing religiosity that has brought greater intolerance, prompting one expert to voice concern the country could be overwhelmed by religious extremism. Pakistani authorities are embracing strengthening religious belief among the population to bring the country closer together. Militant violence in Pakistan has spiked: In the past week alone, four vocational school instructors who advocated for women’s rights were traveling together when they were gunned down in a Pakistan border region.
Winger Caleb Clarke and fullback Stephen Perofeta both crossed in the first 15 minutes of the second half to overhaul an 11-7 deficit, and centre Rieko Ioane put a gloss on the win three minutes from time. The Hurricanes, captained for the first time by Ardie Savea, had two tries from wrecking-ball hooker Asafo Aumua but paid the price for ill-discipline with James Blackwell and Du'Plessis Kirifi both spending 10 minutes in the sinbin.
India will be without pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah in the final test against England after the 27-year-old was released from the squad for personal reasons, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said on Saturday. The right-arm seamer took four wickets in the opening test in Chennai but was rested for the second match, which India won to level the series. Bumrah returned to play his first test at his home ground in Ahmedabad, where India triumphed inside two days to go 2-1 up in the four-match series.
The South African province of Gauteng was hit by powerful thunder and hail storms on February 26.Footage by @Comrade_Sibiya shows hail lashing down outside of a SuperSpar store in the town of Benoni, which is located east of Johannesburg.Many other locals also shared video and images of the violent hailstones. Credit: @Comrade_Sibiya via Storyful
The first season of the 2021 Dota Pro Circuit's South American regional league has concluded, with Beastcoast and T1 representing the region in the upcoming Singapore Major.
India said Saturday that star fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has left the squad for the England Test series for "personal reasons".
New reports of Ebola in Guinea are causing anxiety given the history of the west Africa outbreak of 2014-2016. This was the largest Ebola outbreak reported to date—28,000 cases were recorded, including 11,000 deaths. It originated in Guinea and then spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Ibrahimovic in an interview on Thursday said sportspeople like four-time NBA champion James, who has been one of the NBA's leading voices against racial injustice and police brutality, should avoid making the mistake of getting involved in political matters and instead focus on only sports. James also pointed to comments made by Ibrahimovic in 2018 when the Swedish forward claimed "undercover racism" had caused the media to treat him differently from players that had traditional surnames like Andersson or Svensson.
Genshin Impact fans were treated to the first official appearance of Wangsheng Funeral Parlor boss Hu Tao one day after the end of the Lunar New Year period.
Leg-spinner Sandeep Lamichanne of Nepal has replaced Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan in Lahore Qalandars squad for the remainder of the Pakistan Super League. The 20-year-old Lamichanne has previously represented Lahore in seven games of Pakistan’s premier Twenty20 league in 2019. Rashid left for national duty after featuring in Lahore’s victories against Quetta Gladiators and Peshawar Zalmi in the first two matches.
The Ministry of Health confirmed 12 new cases of COVID-19 in Singapore on Saturday (27 February), taking the country's total case count to 59,925.
Four-time NBA champion LeBron James hit back at Swedish soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Friday, saying there is no reason why he cannot have just as big an impact off the basketball court as he does on it.
Pollina Dinner returned to school in Berlin for the first time this week after two months of lockdown. The 9-year-old third-grader was thrilled to see her classmates and teachers again but frets about the coronavirus pandemic's effect on her life. Psychiatrists, psychologists and pediatricians in Germany have voiced growing alarm that school closings, social restrictions and other precautions are magnifying the fear, disruption and stress of the pandemic among Germany’s 13.7 million children and teenagers, raising the prospect of a future mental health crisis.
A US panel on Friday recommended Johnson & Johnson's one-dose Covid-19 shot for emergency approval, as some of the world's most powerful countries issued a unified call for better vaccine access for poorer nations.
Bangladesh is under "no obligation" to shelter 81 Rohingya Muslim refugees adrift for almost two weeks on the Andaman Sea and being assisted by neighbouring India, said Bangladesh foreign minister A.K. Abdul Momen. India's coast guard found the survivors and eight dead crammed on a fishing boat and were trying to arrange for Bangladesh to take them, Indian officials said on Friday. While feeding the refugees and giving them water, India was not planning to take them ashore.
Sports minister `threatened to withdraw the French team’s authorisation to play in the Six Nations if the rugby federation (FFR) does not properly investigate the origin of a COVID-19 outbreak within the squad. France’s game against Scotland was postponed after 11 French players, as well as staff, including head coach Fabien Galthie, tested positive for COVID-19 in the last week, prompting Maracineanu to ask for an investigation. FFR president Bernard Laporte said that "to my knowledge, nobody’s at fault", but Maracineanu appeared to disagree.
