Bellingham left out of England squad for October games
- 03-Oct-2025
Jude Bellingham was a notable omission from Thomas Tuchel’s England squad announced on Friday for this month’s double-header against Wales and Latvia.
Private Cessna aircraft crashes off coast of Latvia
- 05-Sep-2022
VILNIUS: A private Cessna plane crashed off the coast of Latvia on Sunday evening, Sweden’s rescue service said, after NATO scrambled jets to follow its erratic course. The Austrian-registered Cessna 551 aircraft was flying from Jerez in southern Spain, from where it took off at 1256 GMT without a set destination, according to FlightRadar24 website. […]
Car falls into river by itself; video goes viral
- 20-Apr-2022
Emergency services found the car after a day.
World’s largest concert piano strikes chord in Latvia
- 28-Jul-2019
VENTSPILS: Soaring to new musical heights, a German-born innovator has crafted what is believed to be the world’s largest grand piano.
Latvia to expel ‘one or several’ Russian diplomats over spy attack
- 23-Mar-2018
RIGA, Latvia: Latvia’s foreign ministry on Friday said the Baltic state would expel “one or several” Russian diplomats over the nerve agent attack on an ex-spy in the English city of Salisbury. The move comes after Britain, which blames Russia for the poisoning, expelled 23 Russian diplomats they said were spies and pressed EU allies to […]
‘Droneboarding’ takes off in Latvia
- 22-Jan-2017
RIGA, Latvia: Skirted on all sides by snow-clad pine forests, Latvia’s remote Lake Ninieris would be the perfect picture of winter tranquility — were it not for the huge drone buzzing like a swarm of angry bees as it zooms above the solid ice surface. The powerful three-metre-long (nine-foot) drone, sporting 16 spinning propellers, is […]