Guinea rubbish landfill collapse kills 30

We begin in Guinea, where a major landfill collapse has killed thirty people. A mound of rubbish at a waste site in the capital buried several homes overnight. The government says rescue crews are still searching for survivors.

Guinea is on the west coast of Africa, near Senegal.

It is near Sierra Leone.

Which is on the west coast.

No cause has been confirmed, but heavy rains are common in the region this time of year. Officials say they are bringing in heavy machinery to assist with the search.

In the United Kingdom, CrossCountry rail services remain suspended this afternoon following a power outage at the company's control centre in Birmingham. The disruption is now in its twelfth hour.

CrossCountry operates trains across the entire United Kingdom.

Including London and Edinburgh.

The company says engineers are working to restore power, but no timeline has been given for when services will resume. Passengers are being advised to check before travelling.

From France, the drowning toll remains at three hundred and one deaths since June nineteenth. Most are linked to heatwaves across southern Europe.

The French government says people are taking risks by going into the water to cool off during extreme heat. Authorities are urging swimmers to stay near lifeguarded beaches and avoid rivers and lakes.

From Ukraine, there is still no response from President Zelensky's office following the BBC interview we told you about this morning. His former minister called for wartime elections and questioned what the president knew about government corruption.

The minister is Mykhailo Fedorov. He was dismissed earlier this year. The interview aired yesterday and Zelensky's office has not responded as of seven this morning Eastern time.

Construction workers in Belgium this week uncovered ten point four million dollars in gold while building a new sewer below a former brewery. Authorities are investigating the origin of what they are calling a substantial cache.

Local police say the find was made while crews were working on the sewer line. No arrests have been made.

Philadelphia police this week identified a suspect they say was terrorizing people near City Hall last week while wearing what witnesses described as a Chucky-doll type mask.

Police say the suspect allegedly harassed and chased multiple people, and asked at least one woman if she was ready to die. He is charged with assault and terroristic threats.

This is our one hundred and forty-fifth Florida Man Tribute in forty-three weeks. Back in March of this year, a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station posted a photograph to social media.

The image showed what appeared to be egg-shaped objects with tentacles growing inside the station. The internet, as they say, went into a frenzy.

Number three. A video titled Check For Context, posted by Benji Void on the sixteenth of August. Two point eight million new views in four days.

Number two. Fisherman Found This Heron Fighting For Its Life. Posted by Sassy on the twenty-first. Three point two million new views.

And number one. When Kindness Goes Both Ways, posted by Windypaws on the twentieth. Six million new views in four days. It has led our count for twelve hours.

The Milwaukee Brewers have now won fifty-eight straight games, extending their franchise record. They beat the Cardinals four to one last night.

Pete Crow-Armstrong has hit walk-off RBIs in forty-six consecutive games for the Cubs, extending his major league record. The Cubs beat the White Sox four to two.

And Magnus Carlsen successfully defended his chess title at the twenty twenty-six Esports World Cup. That makes it three straight years for Carlsen.