São Paulo blackout leaves 1.4M without power, hundreds of flights canceled

São Paulo blackout leaves 1.4M without power, hundreds of flights canceled

SÃO PAULO (AP) — More than 1.4 million São Paulo residents had no electricity on Thursday after strong winds caused several trees to collapse onto the Brazilian metropolis’ grid the day before. Local authorities said there were no injuries, but almost 400 flights were canceled. People line up at Congonhas Airport after many flights were disrupted due … Read more

Cruise passengers stuck on ship after cyclone throws their return into chaos

Cruise passengers stuck on ship after cyclone throws their return into chaos

Passengers on a Brisbane-bound cruise ship have been forced to spend days longer at sea as ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred throws holiday plans into chaos. Those aboard Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas were slated to reach Australian shores on Friday, after a week of cruising through the balmy South Pacific. They instead found themselves back … Read more

Hundreds of rare, poisonous sea creatures wash up on beach: ‘Best not to touch them’

Hundreds of rare, poisonous sea creatures wash up on beach: ‘Best not to touch them’

Talk about a blue Christmas. Beachcombers in India were left flabbergasted after a flotilla of indigo-hued, super-rare and venomous sea creatures — most of them dead — flooded beaches near Chennai in the wake of a recent cyclone. “Hundreds of them had washed ashore,” Srivatsan Ramkumar of the Environmentalist Foundation of India told The News Minute. The cobalt-colored … Read more

Bomb cyclone Storm Ciarán leaves 12 dead, over a million power outages

Bomb cyclone Storm Ciarán leaves 12 dead, over a million power outages

PARIS – Ferocious bomb cyclone Storm Ciarán slammed parts much of Europe Thursday with hurricane-force winds topping 100 mph in several locations, leaving at least 12 dead and over a million power outages across the European continent. Reuters reported a truck driver died just outside of Paris when a tree fell into his vehicle while … Read more

Mom rescues daughter as 104-mph winds shatter window in footage caught on baby monitor

Mom rescues daughter as 104-mph winds shatter window in footage caught on baby monitor

Footage captured the dramatic moment that a mom rescued her baby daughter as 100-mile-per-hour winds shattered their bedroom window during the bomb cyclone Ciaran pummeling Western Europe. “It felt like something was going to go wrong, and then the glass all came in,” Jessica O’Reilly told ITV News of the heart-pounding moment, which occurred at their … Read more

How much are Brooklyn Cyclones tickets? The answer may surprise you

How much are Brooklyn Cyclones tickets? The answer may surprise you

Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase.  The New York Mets’ biggest future stars might be just a few boroughs away from Citi Field. Over the past two decades, the Brooklyn Cyclones have nurtured Mets … Read more