Three women are set to embark on a nautical challenge that’s equivalent to 115 marathons. Grace Gilbert, 31, and her two team mates Maddie Difazio-Wright, 35, from Bath, and Grace Pybus, 32, from Newport, will be rowing two hours on and two
Output from the UK’s manufacturing sector surged to £224billion last year according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). While the economy as a whole ekes out only marginal growth, a new report published today by the industry trade association Make UK
A New Zealander had a tiff with a Welsh town after his country was temporarily had a Guinness World Records title taken away. A road in Dunedin, a major city on New Zealand’s South Island, was awarded the title of world’s steepest street
American college student identified as passenger who went overboard from world's largest cruise ship
The passenger who went overboard off the world’s largest cruise ship on Tuesday has been identified by his family as 19-year-old Sigmund Ropich. He went overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas off the coast of Cuba during a seven-day cruise
A South Korean took the importance of sanitation via toilets so seriously he built his home shaped like a loo. Sim Jae-duck, the late mayor of Suwon in northwestern South Korea and former politician, became known as Mr Toilet thanks to his campaigns
The world’s top female triathletes rushed forward into the Seine on Thursday as the famous river’s improved water quality allowed a race to take place in a key test event ahead of next year’s Paris Olympics. It comes after a previous test
Last week I spent four days in Finland. The reason I was there was to review a Porsche 911 Dakar powered by e-fuels. As it happened, as well as reviewing the Porsche, I also drove a brand-new electric Mercedes EQE. As well
The Indonesian capital of Jakarta was ranked the most polluted city in the world on Wednesday. Swiss air quality technology company IQAir has consistently ranked it among the top 10 polluted cities around the globe since May. Jakarta registers unhealthy air pollution
Mexico has been taken over by a powerful and brutal criminal syndicate which is feared to be the world’s most powerful. The Sinaloa Cartel is dominating drug trafficking in Mexico through fear and violence against police, judges and rival cartel members. The
The dry season and motorized vehicles are the main causes of the air pollution in Jakarta, Indonesian authorities said Friday, after a Swiss air quality technology company named the city as the most polluted in the world. Thick smoke and gray skies