The Met Office has extended a weather warning for thunderstorms into Monday across large parts of Wales.

It said there was a chance of flooding or lightning strikes with Sunday’s alert in place until 21:00 BST.

A new thunderstorm warning covers a large swathe of Wales on Monday between noon and 21:00.

And a warning for heavy rain is in place between 19:00 on Sunday until 09:00 on Monday in a number of areas.

The warning for heavy rain covers a large part of the nation apart from the six council areas in the north.

Obo Natural Park, also known by its original name Parque Natural Ôbo, is a natural, national and very important park which is located in the southern part of the island of São Tomé that forms the island nation of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Principe.

Covering an area of some 235 square km (91 square mi), better yet 30% of the island area, there is also small section that was created in 2012 which is included from the island of Príncipe making the grand total area of some 300 square km (116 square mi).

Covered with lush green forests, mangroves, swamps and Savannah grasslands, there are also plenty of alluring waterfalls which are cascading down the slopes of the mountains, all the way to the black and white beaches.

There are plenty of gorgeous features that Obo can offer to its visitors, especially the village of Bombaim which is overlooked by the nation’s tallest summit, Bom Successo, nonetheless, Pico Cão Grande which is in the central part of the park is among the most well known places.

Rising dramatically above the park area, it is surrounded by lush green forest which is interesting for the scientists.

As a matter in fact, the flora in Obo Natural Park includes also the evergreen coniferous Afrocarpus mannii, orchards, ferns and mosses. With some 100 different kinds of unique orchids, and over 700 species of flora, this place is a paradise for the fauna that thrives in between the trees.

Being a perfect place for bird watchers, there are some 230 birds that can be found here, and since 1988, scientists classified the forests of Sao Tomé and Principe as the second most important in terms of biological interest of the 75 forests of Africa.

All in all, a true treasure that deserves to be well known around the world, this small nation in the Gulf of Guinea is absolutely proud to have this rare gem on its territory.

Four children have been found alive after surviving a plane crash and spending weeks fending for themselves in Colombia’s Amazon jungle

Colombia’s president said the rescue of the siblings, aged 13, nine, four and one, was “a joy for the whole country”.The children’s mother and two pilots were killed when their light aircraft crashed in the jungle on 1 May.

The missing children became the focus of a huge rescue operation involving dozens of soldiers and local people.

President Gustavo Petro said finding the group was a “magical day”, adding: “They were alone, they themselves achieved an example of total survival which will remain in history.”

The children belong to the Huitoto indigenous group. Mr Petro shared a photograph of several members of the military and Indigenous community caring for the siblings, who had been missing for 40 days.

One of the rescuers held a bottle up to the mouth of the smallest child, while another fed one of the other children from a mug with a spoon.

A video shared by Colombia’s ministry of defence showed the children being air-lifted into a helicopter in the dark above the tall trees of the jungle. They have been flown to the nation’s capital Bogota, where ambulances have taken them to hospital for further medical treatment

The children’s grandmother, Fatima Valencia, said after their rescue: “I am very grateful, and to mother earth as well, that they were set free.” She said the eldest of the four siblings was used to looking after the other three when their mother was at work, and that this helped them survive in the jungle.”She gave them flour and cassava bread, any fruit in the bush, they know what they must consume,” Ms Valencia said in footage.

The Cessna 206 aircraft the children and their mother had been travelling on before the crash was flying from Araracuara, in Amazonas province, to San José del Guaviare, when it issued a mayday alert due to engine failure.

The bodies of the three adults were found at the crash site by the army, but it appeared that the children had escaped the wreckage and wandered into the rainforest to find help. A massive search began and in May, rescuers recovered items left behind by the children, including a child’s drinking bottle, a pair of scissors, a hair tie and a makeshift shelter.

Small footprints were also discovered, which led search teams to believe the children were still alive in the rainforest, which is home to jaguars, snakes and other predators. Members of the children’s community hoped that their knowledge of fruits and jungle survival skills would give them a better chance of remaining alive.

Indigenous people joined the search and helicopters broadcast a message from the children’s grandmother, recorded in the Huitoto language, urging them to stop moving to make them easier to locate. After they were found, their grandfather, Fidencio Valencia, called on the authorities to allow the children to be moved closer to their family in Villavicencio, roughly 130km (142 miles) from Bogota.
“I am asking the president as the highest authority, I am sorry to bother him, but it is my right and my duty, it is my blood, it is my family. I want to see the children, here in Villavicencio,” he said in an interview.

Earlier Mr Petro said he had spoken to the children’s grandfather.

The president came under criticism last month when a tweet published on his account mistakenly announced that the children had been found.

He erased the tweet the next day saying that the information – which his office had been given by Colombia’s child welfare agency – could not be confirmed.

A 5.0-magnitude earthquake has struck the South African city of Johannesburg, waking up people and causing damage to some buildings, seismologists and residents say.

The shaking was widely felt across the city and the region as a whole.

The earthquake happened at 2:38 a.m. on Sunday and was centered just 6 kilometers south of Alberton, or roughly 16 kilometers southeast of central Johannesburg, according to seismologists.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.0, while South Africa’s Council for Geoscience put it at 4.7. The quake struck about 10 kilometers below the surface, which is very shallow.

People said the shaking was strong enough to wake them up and some homes suffered relatively minor damage, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. “The whole house shook for about 40 seconds,” one resident in Alberton said.

This is the strongest tremor in the Johannesburg area since March 2019, when a 4.9-magnitude earthquake hit near Soweto. In 2017, a 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit near Stilfontein.