Beachgoers in Britain had to be evacuated from a stretch of coastline after a chemical "haze" left many with streaming eyes, sore throats and vomiting. Emergency services warned people along the east Sussex coast to keep doors and windows closed after 50 people were affected along the shoreline from Eastbourne to Birling Gap, near Beachy Head. Coastguard rescue teams from Birling Gap, Eastbourne, Bexhill and Newhaven raced to help clear the busy beaches as visitors feared they had been struck by a chlorine leak. Kyle Crickmore, who had been at the beach at Birling Gap, told BBC News: "Then looking out towards the water, there was just this crazy foggy haze rolling in off the sea out of nowhere." It triggered call outs to the UK Coastguard, Sussex Police, the South Eastern Ambulance Service and the East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service who said they were treating it as a "chemical incident".
Australian gangland widow Roberta Williams wants a tilt at federal politics but her proposed run could be over before it's even begun. She's nominating as a candidate for the Australian People's Party to run against Opposition Leader Bill Shorten in his seat of Maribyrnong, but her status as an undischarged bankrupt is likely to make her ineligible. Williams gained notoriety during Melbourne's gangland wars as the wife of slain underworld kingpin Carl Williams.
More than 1000 people have died from the mudslide and flood that hit Sierra Leone's capital nearly two weeks ago, a local leader and a minister said today during services honouring the disaster's victims. The Government had earlier put the death toll for the August 15 mudslide at 450 dead, while rescuers and aid groups warned that many of the more than 600 people missing would likely not survive. "Over 1000 perished in the mudslide and flood disaster, and we will never know the exact number now," Elenoroh Jokomie Metzger, the head of the women of Regent, said. Regent is an area on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, where the mudslide hit.
Authorities in California say they have found a smuggling tunnel that carried dozens of people across the border from Mexico into the United States. Border Patrol agents discovered the crude tunnel described as a hole in the ground with a ladder inside it shortly near San Diego's Otay Mesa border crossing. Agents detained 23 Chinese nationals and seven Mexican citizens they believe crossed into the US illegally.
