It’s Black Friday – no, not the year’s biggest shopping day, but the unluckiest one: Friday the 13th.
Over the years many tragic events have proved it: the Uruguayan rugby team’s crash in the Andes (1972); Buckingham Palace being bombed by the Germans (1940); and 500,000 people killed by a cyclone in Bangladesh (1970).
And put April 2029 in your calendar as asteroid ‘99942 Apophis’ will give us the closest intergalactic shave of modern times.
Who said that staying home was safe!
