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A waste mound in Conakry’s Gbessia commune collapsed after heavy overnight rain, killing 30 people and engulfing nearby tents and shacks days after Guinea announced the site would close.
Residents beside the landfill remained exposed after officials recognized its danger, raising urgent questions about evacuation, relocation and protection before further rain.
Home Builders Institute CEO Ed Brady says US construction workers are moving from a weak housing market to data-center projects as the skilled trades face an estimated 300,000-worker shortage.
If data centers outbid housing projects for overlapping trades, home construction may take longer and cost more in places already short of housing.
Nearly 600 dental practices in England have withdrawn from NHS dentistry over the past decade, leaving access increasingly dependent on location.
Patients unable to secure nearby NHS appointments may face private fees, longer journeys or delayed treatment that can allow dental problems to worsen.
PC Matthew Blades, PC Tom Clough and five people in a wrong-way car died in a dual-carriageway collision about 10 seconds after police abandoned a pursuit.
Investigators must determine whether pursuit rules managed the continuing road hazard and whether faster warnings or access controls could have reduced the risk.
The Anti-Corruption Data Collective identified suspicious Polymarket wallets trading successfully on military events, while another platform proposed markets tied to events in livestreams.
Unusual wagers can alert foreign intelligence services and other traders to possible military action even when no bettor publicly discloses a source.
Jonah Neal’s family and attorney viewed body-camera footage of a federal agent shooting Neal during a mental-health crisis in Memphis, and the attorney called the force unjustified.
Agency control of the footage, investigative jurisdiction and release rules will determine whether the video produces public scrutiny or remains evidence seen by only a few people.
President Masoud Pezeshkian’s government is considering higher fuel prices in Iran as food costs rise, the rial weakens and the United States threatens new sanctions.
A fuel increase could raise taxi fares, freight charges and grocery prices while reducing the cost of subsidies carried by Iran’s strained public finances.
Families in Gaza continue searching for children and other relatives whose whereabouts remain unknown after years of war.
Unresolved disappearances prevent families from establishing whether relatives survived, died, were displaced or entered hospitals or graves under incomplete identities.
Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians authorized the first strike in the ensemble’s 145-year history, allowing their union to call a walkout if bargaining fails.
The authorization gives musicians leverage in contract talks while leaving future performances dependent on whether bargaining advances before a walkout is called.
Australian authorities confirmed the country’s first H5N1 bird-flu infection in a local mammal, extending official detection beyond birds.
Follow-up sampling must determine whether the infection was an isolated spillover or evidence of a wider pattern among Australian wildlife.
The British government plans to give mayors power to overrule some local council planning decisions, which housing minister Matthew Pennycook says is essential to delivering new homes.
The change could accelerate housing approvals, but it would reduce local councils’ leverage without resolving shortages of finance, infrastructure, land or construction capacity.
Kazakhstan opened a snap parliamentary election for a new 145-member legislature, with only seven state-approved parties loyal to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev permitted to field candidates.
The vote will help determine whether Kazakhstan’s constitutional overhaul gives parliament independent power or merely gives presidential control a new procedural form.