News Headlines - 02 April 2021

▽Train crash kills 50 in Taiwan's deadliest rail tragedy in decades | Reuters

A Taiwan express train with almost 500 aboard derailed in a tunnel on Friday after hitting a truck that had slid down a bank onto the track, killing at least 50 passengers and injuring 146 in the island’s worst rail disaster in seven decades.

▽Russian doctors complete open-heart surgery as tsarist-era hospital burns | Reuters

Russian doctors stayed behind in a burning, tsarist-era hospital in the country’s Far East on Friday to complete open-heart surgery after a fire broke out on the roof while they were operating.
Firefighters who took more than two hours to put out the blaze in the city of Blagoveshchensk said they used fans to keep smoke out of the operating room and ran in a power cable to keep it supplied with electricity.
A group of eight doctors and nurses completed the operation in two hours before removing the patient to another site, the emergencies ministry said.

▽NYPD makes an arrest in the hate crime assault on a 65-year-old Asian woman - CNN

New York City police said Wednesday morning they made an arrest in the case of a 65-year-old Asian woman who was attacked Monday in Midtown Manhattan.
The individual "was arrested and charged with Felony Assault as a Hate Crime," the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force said in a tweet.
Police previously said the woman was punched and kicked by an attacker who allegedly made anti-Asian statements toward her.

▽Extinction Rebellion activists spray black paint over Bank of England | Evening Standard

Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists splashed black liquid over the Bank of England as part of a wave of action targeting financial institutions.
The campaigners, all dressed in black, were seen holding a banner that read “No More Fossil Fools” as they gathered in the City of London on Thursday... Officers made one arrest for criminal trespass and three arrests for criminal damage, said the City of London Police.

▽Disaster strikes as Deliveroo becomes ‘worst IPO in London’s history’ | Financial Times

Short sellers, an unfortunate roadshow and terrible timing were all blamed as Deliveroo lost more than a quarter of its value on its first day of trading, becoming in the words of one of its bankers: “the worst IPO in London’s history”.
Shares in the food delivery app closed on Wednesday at 287p, 26 per cent down, wiping almost £2bn from its opening £7.6bn market capitalisation, despite frantic efforts by its lead bankers Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to shore up the stock.
The dramatic failure of London’s biggest tech IPO is likely to damp hopes of the British government to attract other high-growth companies to list in the UK, ahead of growing competition from exchanges such as Amsterdam.