The week in pictures: June 9 – June 15, 2015

We saw a lot of important news stories break last week so lets take a few moments to just remind ourselves of some of the biggest from around the world

The River Vere in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, burst its banks last week and in the heavy flooding that followed at least 12 people were killed, thousands were left without water and electricity and some had to be airlifted to safety. Animals from the city’s zoo escaped in the swirling destructive waters with residents told to stay indoors to avoid contact with hippos, lions, tigers and bears all of whom were on the loose. Special forces have been called in to eliminate the danger animals like wolves and jackals pose the local population.

The European Space Agency was pleased to announce that its Philae probe, dropped onto the surface of the Comet 67P last November and which fell silent when an unfortunate landing left it lacking enough sunlight to power its solar batteries, has woken up and contacted Earth via it’s mothership Rosetta. As the comet streaks ever closer to the sun the increased light has powered up the probe and allowed it to contact earth for 85 seconds and paves the way for much of the data collected aboard the craft to be downloaded and analysed.

Nobel winning Scientist Tim Hunt who took the prize for his work on cell biology back in 2001 was removed from his position at University College London after making some objectionable remarks at a conference in Seoul, South Korea which seemed to indicate a very sexist attitude towards women in science. “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab. You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when your criticize them, they cry.” He said almost instantly ending his career in the howls of accusation at his silly sexism.

In sport FIFA still finds itself embroiled in the sort of scandal that soap opera writers wish they could get away with, and just this last week disgraced Sepp Blatter, who resigned as charges of bribery and corruption swirl around the organization, hinted that he may attempt to make a return to the Presidency of world football’s governing body. With reactions extremely mixed at the prospect can the fat man from Switzerland retake his evil empire? You’ll have to read our daily news pages to find out, but in the meantime lets look at what hit our headlines over the last seven days.

1. Casino Cruise has release eight new games on their website, and they expect all these games to be great hits among the customers.

2. PokerStars announces that the 2015 World Championship of Online Poker will be launched on 27 September, and will feature a total prize pot of USD 10 million.

3. Football authorities seem incapable of challenging other inherent problems besides corruption.

4. MPN Poker Tour announces that additional seats will be added to the Only Seats satellites of the tour’s Dublin leg.

5. Win A Day Casino offers great promotional deals and a brand new slot game as a celebration for the casino’s seventh birthday.

6. MGM and Wynn Resorts prepare for a merger according to some sources.

7. The FIFA scandal continues getting ever more ridiculous day by day with the latest victim being their head of Communications, Walter De Gregorio.

Meanwhile Billionaire Johann Rupert has amused many with his comments made at a Financial Times summit in Monaco. The owner of Cartier, the high-class jewelery company is quoted as having said “How is society going to cope with structural unemployment and the envy, hatred and social welfare? We are destroying the middle classes at this stage and it will affect us. It’s unfair. So that’s what keeps me up at night.” Which seems to indicate the man worth seven and a half billion dollars is frightened the poor are going to rise up and smite him down. He may well be right.