The former soldier arrested after a shooting spree inside a Florida airport killed five and injured six has been charged with murder. Esteban Santiago, 26, is alleged to have opened fire in baggage collection at Terminal 2 in Fort Lauderdale International Airport (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on December...
Ever wondered what would happen if the earth actually found itself in the path of a huge asteroid? Would we send a team of oil rig workers to destroy it with a nuke a la Armageddon or is there something less extreme involved? Well, according to the outline of an emergency plan that has been unveiled in a White House paper, we...
Two stars are set to collide, creating a huge explosion that will be visible from Earth with the naked eye. The cosmic crash is to take place in 2022, give or take a year, and will see one of the stars increase in brightness 10,000-fold – meaning it would be one of the brightest stars in the night sky, for a period....
The National Health Service (NHS) is facing a "humanitarian crisis" in England, the British Red Cross has warned, as its volunteers help frontline NHS staff at 100 hospital. The warning comes days after two patients died after long waits on trolleys and a third was found hanged, in a suspected suicide in...
London has already exceeded pollution guidelines for the whole of 2017 just days into the year. Legal air pollution limits for the entire year were broken just five days into 2017 in London, figures show. Teen repeatedly whipped and stabbed by thugs in brutal chicken shop attack Brixton Road, Lambeth has claimed the dubious...
Venezuela search teams have found survivors six days after a military helicopter crashed in the Amazon area of the country, the BBC reported citing local media. Liborio Guarulla, the governor of the Amazonas state, took to Twitter to say that the helicopter was found by members of the Yecuana indigenous tribe on the slopes of...
Joe Biden has never shied away from expressing his dislike of Donald Trump and has, on multiple occasions slammed the president-elect for his inflammatory statements. In a recent interview with PBS NewsHour, the out-going vice president once again voiced his opinion of Trump and said that it was time for him to "be an...
The Ebola virus may replicate in the lungs of survivors, while they are recovering from an infection, scientists have discovered. The findings suggest that the respiratory tissues could be implicated in promoting human-to-human transmission of Ebola. The Ebola epidemic that hit West Africa between 2013 and 2016 was the...
Fossilised groundcherries − a type of lantern fruit − have been discovered preserved in amazing detail next to the remains of a volcanic lake in Patagonia, Argentina. The age of the fossils suggests that lantern fruits evolved much earlier than previously thought, according to a paper published in the journal...
Youths who used a stolen car in a ram-raid at a Hokianga grocery store fled empty-handed and crashed after the shop owner gave chase. Senior Constable Jeff Cramp, said four to five youths used a stolen car to smash down the doors of the Rawene Four Square on Wednesday night, then tried to force the cigarette cabinet open with a...
Leading Formula 1 teams could be forced to revise their suspension systems on the eve of the 2017 season amid a row brewing following a Ferrari query over trick technology that Mercedes has pioneered. Even though the high-tech FRIC (Front and Rear InterConnected) suspension system was effectively banned in 2014, it has not...
For centuries it was thought that the mesentery was a fragmented collection of folds in the membrane lining the abdominal cavity. But now doctors have said that it is a distinct organ, which could change the way diseases of the digestive tract are understood. Leonardo da Vinci was the first to characterise the mesentery in a...