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Cost of living: Diesel hits new record high and petrol is not far behind, AA warns
The average price of a litre of diesel has hit a new record high, according to industry data, signalling further financial pressure on households and businesses alike amid the deteriorating cost of living crisis.
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Lightning Bolt Illuminates Southern English Night Sky
Lightning stretched across the sky in Fareham, England, on May 15, as the Met Office issued a weather warning for large parts of the south coast.Footage recorded by Emma Prowse shows a lightning bolt flash across the sky in Fareham, near Portsmouth, at around 10:15 pm local time.The Met Office warning was valid from 8 pm on Sunday until 5 am on Monday. Credit: Emma Prowse via Storyful
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George Takei leads New York's first Japan Parade in 162 years
STORY: New York's Japan Parade returns after 162 yearsled by Grand Marshal George Takei[George Takei, Actor]“What we are celebrating is the bond of friendship and mutual dependence between Japan and the United States.”Over 2,400 participants danced to Japanese folk musicdressed as anime charactersand drummed along to the beat of the processionIt marks over a century since the original Japan Parade in 1860which welcomed the first Japanese delegation to the U.S.Source: The New York Times[Tom Burnett, Photo Collector / Tom Burnett Collection]“It's a way to memorialize the relationship between Japan and America, which is a very important relationship that goes all the way back to the visit. The first visit in 1860, which was a very important time for both Japan and America, was right before the civil war in this country and before the deposition of the Shogun and the Restoration of the Emperor eight years later in Japan.”
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Ukraine Says Troops Reached Russian Border in Kharkiv Region
Ukrainian troops fighting in Kharkiv reached the border with Russia, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and Kharkiv’s regional governor.Footage released on May 15 shows troops sending a message to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.“We’ve made it Mr President, we are here,” a soldier says in the video, according to a translation.The defense ministry said the group was a battalion of the 127th Territorial Defense Brigade in Kharkiv.Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synyehubov said the troops restored a sign at the border.A longer video shows soldiers emerging from a wooded area before making their way to the border. Credit: Ukraine Defense Ministry via Storyful
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Pakistani, Serbian win big at world paper plane championship
STORY: The event at Red Bull's Hangar-7 in Salzburg, also known as the paper plane world championship, took place for the first time since 2019 due to the Covid pandemic.Pakistani Rana Muhammad Usman Saeed topped the longest airtime podium with this plane staying aloft for 14.86 seconds while Serbian Lazar Krstic won the distance discipline with his throw of just over 200 feet (61.11 metres).In the aerobatics competition it was South Korean Seunghoon Lee who was judged the winner after being awarded 46 points for his performance.
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Sam Ryder: Eurovision arena was like a church
Sam Ryder has said he "received so much love" during and after his performance at the Eurovision Song Contest, during an interview with BBC Radio 2's Zoe Ball following his return from Turin.
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London's first electric scooter championship
STORY: Neyroud oudueled 29 other male and female riders over a series of 10 minute, six rider knockout races around a 12 turn, 1542 foot (470-metre) course built in Surrey Quays area of London.The riders all used custom S1-X eSkootrs with two 6kW motors that can hit speeds as high as 62 miles per hour (100kph).Neyround was joined on the final podium by Brit Dan Brooks and Indian rider Anish Shetty.
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PM leaves Downing Street for Belfast
Prime Minister Boris Johnson departs 10 Downing Street early on Monday morning for Belfast, where he will hold emergency talks with Northern Ireland’s political parties. The DUP is currently refusing to join Sinn Fein in a new Executive or to allow the election of a speaker to the Assembly unless there is fundamental change to the Northern Ireland Protocol.
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Minister struggles to answer questions on new police stop-and-search rules
Speaking to Nick Ferrari on LBC, Safeguarding minister Rachel Maclean struggled to answer questions on the Government's new police stop and search rules.
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Amazing moment mourners break into dancing during DJ set at funeral
<p>This is the remarkable moment a group of mourners began an impromptu rave in a cemetery during a DJ set at a FUNERAL. <br><br>Well-wishers had gathered at Witton Cemetery in Birmingham to say farewell to a loved one, known only as Katty, last week. <br><br>Video footage captured the moment the congregation began busting some moves after a DJ set up his turntables in the middle of the graveyard.<br><br>Mourners dressed in black can be seen smiling and laughing while dancing around people's graves as loud dancehall music pumps out from portable speakers. <br><br>The video, obtained by Birmz Is Grime, has divided opinion since being uploaded to social media, where it has been viewed over 40,000 times in less than 24 hours. <br><br>Some web users praised the unique tribute to the deceased while others accused people of being disrespectful by dancing on other people's graves. <br><br>One person commented: "What a lovely tribute, I'm sure Katty would be smiling down. Nice to see a proper celebration of someone's life."<br><br>Another added: "Rip my friend #katty you had a send off like no other #weloveyou"<br><br>A third person wrote: "A beautiful and fun-filled way to say goodbye to a loved one. Bringing your own DJ is brilliant too. What a send off."<br><br>One said: "This looks like the most fun funeral ever. I'm sure your friend Katty would be proud."<br><br>But others were not so sure, with one person commenting: "Na I don’t rate it, look how many peoples graves get stepped on."<br><br>Another put: "Kinda f***ry still when old Ethel turns up to water her late husbands flowers only to find 30 man strong stomping on her orchids."<br><br>One person added: "Everyone deserves a good send off, but levels of disrespect shown to others already at rest there feels real uncomfortable. <br><br>"That's why we have wakes, dance to till you can dance no more then, don't be jumping on other peoples loved ones graves."<br><br>Another put: "Nahhh I was always taught not to step on graves its disrespectful, nice thought just wrong place."</p>
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Former Somali leader Mohamud wins presidency again
STORY: Former Somali leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud won the presidency on Sunday. It's the second time he will be president. The vote was only by lawmakers in an airport hanger protected from Islamist insurgents by blast walls. It was a long day with three rounds of voting.Now, Mohamud again faces the daunting task of tackling drought, hunger and seemingly never-ending conflict. Somalia’s 15 million people have endured civil war and clan battles with no strong central government since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was toppled in 1991. Earlier, blasts from mortar shells rang out near Mogadishu airport, where the vote was held, but there was no claim of responsibility and the explosions did not disrupt the vote. Simply holding the elections was a success of sorts but Somalia is still unable to hold a direct vote due to insecurity. Mohamud also faces the task of proving his skeptics wrong who complained that the leading candidates were old faces recycled from the past, and have done little to stem conflict and corruption.
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Travis Scott and Morgan Wallen give controversial performances at music awards
Travis Scott and Morgan Wallen invited controversy with their performances at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, while Mary J Blige was honoured for her musical excellence. Wallen performed in his first major awards show after he was caught on camera using a racial slur. Shortly after Wallen’s set, Scott made his first televised performance since a massive crowd surge killed 10 people and injured thousands at his Astroworld Festival in Houston in November last year.
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Queen attends star-studded Jubilee equestrian show
Hollywood actors Tom Cruise and Dame Helen Mirren, once again playing a queen of England, led the cast of entertainers who appeared in the first major event marking the Queen’s 70-year reign.
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Poor workers bear the brunt of India's heatwave
STORY: Large parts of India are anticipating more days of brutal heat - with temperatures expected to blow past records.This unprecedented heatwave has meant the vast majority of the country's poor workers who tend to labor outdoors - are exposed to scorching temperatures. For construction worker Yogendra Tundre - life at a building site on the outskirts of the Indian capital New Delhi - is hard enough:"There are a lot of issues. Our work efficiency has decreased because of the high temperatures. There is weakness in the body and because of that we need to rest for one to two days. There is too much heat and if we don't work, what will we eat? For a few days, we work and then we sit idle for a few days because of tiredness and heat." Temperatures in New Delhi have hit sweltering numbers - often causing Tundre - and his wife Lata - who work at the same construction site to fall sick and for them, sick days mean no income. "Because of the heat, sometimes I don't go to work. I take days off... I often fall sick from dehydration and then I need glucose bottles through an IV.” India suffered its hottest March in more than 100 years and parts of the country experienced their highest temperatures on record in April. Scientists have linked the early onset of an intense summer to climate change - and say more than a billion people in India and neighbouring Pakistan are in some way at risk from the extreme heat. Even after Tundre and Lata finish their day's work, their home is boiling with their two young children in a slum just outside of New Dehli. "It is very hot here. How can one live peacefully? There is no resting - It's only pain and misery. We get off at around 5 p.m. from work but it is so hot, there is a tin roof which gets extremely hot, we come here and it is too hot so it's very tough. There are only problems and problems here.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on state governments to draw up measures to mitigate the impact of the extreme heat. Meanwhile it's taking a wider toll on India’s ability to produce food. The country banned exports of wheat on Saturday - days after saying it was targeting record shipments this year. The scorching heat wave has cut into its wheat output and prices inside India are soaring.
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At least one dead in California church shooting
STORY: Festivities at a Southern California church turned deadly on Sunday after a gunman opened fire. Police said one person died on the scene and several others were critically injured.They also said the churchgoers detained and hog-tied a suspect in his 60s with an electrical cord.The shooting occurred during a lunch banquet at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Orange County's Laguna Woods.Police said there were dozens present inside the church during the incident. Lisa Bartlett is a district supervisor for the county."From what we know, there was a shooter that came in with multiple weapons and started opening fire. And fortunately, some of the parishioners here in the congregation jumped on the shooter and tackled and brought him down to the ground and held him until the sheriff's department came and was able to arrest the individual."Residents were gathered outside the church in the aftermath.One said the churchgoers were of mostly Taiwanese descent. However, whether the shooting was race-related was not immediately clear. Police believe the suspect did not live in the area. "The Taiwanese congregation is mostly older Taiwanese who like to have their (church) service in the Taiwanese language. And so, my thinking is that there were no teenagers that went and tackled this gunman. These were mature people who did this. And I'm very proud of them. I'd like to think I would do that. But you never know till you're there."It was a day after another major mass shooting in the U.S. over the weekend.On Saturday, a white 18-year-old man in Buffalo, New York opened fire at a supermarket in a mostly Black neighborhood.At least 10 were killed and several others injured, in what authorities described as a purely racist attack.
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Timelapse Video Shows Large Smoke Clouds Wafting From New Mexico Wildfire
Massive smoke clouds from the combined Calf Canyon/Hermit’s Peak fire were seen from nearby Santa Fe, New Mexico, as evacuation orders# remained in place for parts of the state on May 14.This timelapse footage taken by Jackson Mathey shows billowing smoke near Santa Fe on Saturday.The Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon wildfire had spread to 288,968 Acres near Las Vegas, New Mexico, and was 27 percent contained as of May 15, according to official fire reports. Credit: Jackson Mathey via Storyful
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Cost of living: Energy price cap adjustments could be every three months under Ofgem reform plan
The energy price cap, the mechanism that determines gas and electricity bills for 22 million households, could soon be reviewed every three months under plans announced by the industry regulator.
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210,000 lanterns illuminate Thai temple for Buddha Day
STORY: 210,000 lanterns illuminate this Thai temple for Vesak DayLocation: Dhammakaya Temple, ThailandThe holiday is one of the most important Buddhist festivalsalso known as Buddha Day [Venerable Phramaha Thossaporn Punyangkuro, Vice Director of Communication Department / Dhammakaya Foundation]"Today is an important day as it commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and the great decease of the Lord Buddha. To mark this day, the temple has lit 210,000 LED lanterns depicting an image of his birth, enlightenment and death to honor the Lord Buddha."The festival usually takes place in Mayduring the first full moon, based on the lunar calendarand attracts tens of thousands of believersThe lighting of the lanterns is followed by meditationand prayer in Pali, the language of ancient Buddhist scriptures
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High-Speed Camera Captures Lightning Splintering Across Sky in Fort Wayne, Indiana
A storm system pushed across northern Indiana on Sunday evening, May 15, producing lightning and intense winds.High-speed video recorded by videographer Bryce Fritzel shows a lightning strike spidering across the night sky in northern Fort Wayne.Fritzel told Storyful he was using Phantom high-speed camera to record the lightning event at 6,000 frames per second.“[The] video playback that is over 250 times slower than you see with your eyes,” Fritzel said.The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement, warning of pea-sized hail and winds of up to 40 miles per hour in the region. Credit: Bryce Fritzel via Storyful