Electrical phenomena

Scientists said on Jan. 16 they have used a laser beam to guide lightning for the first time, hoping the technique will help protect against deadly bolts and one day maybe even trigger them.

Lightning strikes between 40-120 times a second worldwide, killing more than 4,000 people and causing billions of dollars worth of damage every year.

The phenomena will be locally intense

Lightning strikes illuminate Ankara's sky as rainy weather continues throughout the capital. (AA Photo)

A bolt of lightning struck at the Turkish parliament's garden on March 22 noontime.

A plane tree was split into two parts after the lightning.

The broken piece of the tree fell on a vehicle that moved into the parliament's parking garage.

There is no injured in the incident, while material damage occurred.

More than 3,000 lightening strikes were recorded Greece on August 15, with the biggest frequency detected in central regions of the country during rainstorms, according to the National Observatory of Athens.

The biggest architecture festival in Kosovo has opened its seventh session, with two documentaries and a lecture from Italian photographer Jessica Bizzoni on the disturbing impact of electric light on our planet.

Millions of people living in Britain were treated to a stunning spectacle of beauty in the skies on Sunday. They were lucky enough to observe one of the most amazing celestial phenomena ever, the North Selas, or as it is scientifically known the ‘Aurora Boraelis’. These magnificent natural light displays produced at the ends of the earth’s poles, can are visible in high altitudes.

Four amateur soccer players were discharged on Friday from a hospital in Mantoudi, Evia, where they were treated for shock following the fatal injury of a 28-year-old fellow player who was hit by a bolt of lightning during a training session in Cirinthos on Thursday.

One worker was slightly injured when he was struck by lightning during a sit-in protest over 18 workers who were fired in the western province of Kütahya, late on June 15.

Ömer Tuncan, 25, was injured when lightning struck him in an open area where he had been holding a sit-in protest with other workers since June 10.