The United Arab Emirates announced $544 million to repair the homes of Emirati families on Wednesday after last week's record rains caused widespread flooding and brought the oil-rich Gulf state to a standstill.The rainfall, the UAE's heaviest since records began 75 years ago, killed at least four people, including three Filipino workers and one Emirati.
In 1955, a new non-fiction book was released, editions of which would appear on bestseller lists for decades to come. The Guinness Book of Records, as it was then called, was stuffed with feats and facts from the human and natural worlds. The highest mountain on Earth was in there. So was the world’s tallest man (the American Robert Wadlow, whose 8ft 11ins remains unsurpassed). John R Cobb was featured for holding the world land speed record (403.135mph, set in 1947), as well as a British Friesi