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A sunny and warm weekend ahead
With the weekend fast approaching, I thought that I would take a look at the weather prospects for the coming weekend.
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With the weekend fast approaching, I thought that I would take a look at the weather prospects for the coming weekend.
The demise of Colonel Gaddafi was a stone cast into a pool – a huge wave rather than a ripple has hit Libya’s neighbour, Mali.
The weekend provided a real mix of weather across the UK, with rain or showers bringing some welcome moisture into the ground across England and Wales.
The Met Office have just released the winter season statistics that includes the months of December, January and February, so I thought I’d take a quick look at them and summarise the main points.
Despite a promising start to March, with the first week of the month bringing rain to all parts of the UK, the next week or so is looking largely dry – not welcome news for the areas suffering from drought.
During the past 24 hours a band of heavy and persistent rain has spread across much of England and Wales, bringing welcome and much needed rainfall.
After yesterday’s remarkable warmth for February, with many parts of England and north east Wales reaching 15-18C, this weekend will be a little bit cooler.
As a major conference on Somalia opens in London, reporter Jamal Osman went to Somalia to speak to the Islamist group that will not be attending the summit, despite controlling most of the country.
After a temporary return to colder weather during the weekend, the mild weather is set to make a return for the week ahead.
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on the relentless snow hitting Kabul and why Britain’s idea of winter is “frankly hilarious”.
Arriving in Kabul’s homely – if beaten-up – airport after Dubai is always something of a contrast. Never more so in my experience than this morning. The Hindu Kush mountains brilliant in deep mid-winter snows. But not just the Kush. The Afghan capital gleams under a foot or so and this morning’s temperature dipped to minus 12.
Arriving in Kabul’s homely – if beaten-up – airport after Dubai is always something of a contrast. Never more so in my experience than this morning. The Hindu Kush mountains brilliant in deep mid-winter snows. But not just the Kush. The Afghan capital gleams under a foot or so and this morning’s temperature dipped to minus 12.
Failure to heed early warning signs of drought led to tens of thousands of deaths in East Africa, says a report by Oxfam and Save the Children.
Life in the world’s biggest refugee camp, at Dadaab, Kenya, means subsisting on the bare essentials. But people still try to live as normally as they can, writes the World Food Programme’s Steve Ryan.