Category Current Affairs

Babylon current affairs articles.

Spain to enforce Direct Control over Catalonia

LV 20151030 LV FOTOS D 54438501679 kdAH 992x558@LaVanguardia Web

The Spanish Government has moved to hold a cabinet meeting on Saturday, October 21 to process the enforcement of direct control over Catalonia after the region’s president refused to abandon the push for independence. The announcement from Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy…

Hurricane Ophelia in Ireland

hurricane 1

Hurricane Ophelia has hit Ireland. It is one of the worst storms in more than 50 years that Ireland has faced. It is the most powerful storm this far east of the US on record. Only 15 hurricanes have passed…

Nobel Prizes 2017

nobellllllllllllllllllllll

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson win the 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry. They developed a technique called cryo-electron microscopy, which simplifies the process for looking at the machinery of life. Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017:…

Body of missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall found

Mette Lundtofte Kim Wall

Today Copenhagen police declared that a torso found this week in local waters was that of Kim Wall, a Swedish freelance journalist whose disappearance after boarding a Danish inventor’s submarine has shocked many Scandinavians and drawn interest from around the…

Two killed in Ischia earthquake

ischia island italy

An earthquake hit the tourist-packed Italian holiday island of Ischia on Monday night, collapsing buildings, killing at least two people and injuring dozens, officials said. Residents and tourists on the island off the coast of Naples ran out onto the…