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Australian Islamic leaders are pushing for a Muslim alternative to Peppa Pig
Islamic leaders in Australia are urging Muslims to donate money to help fund an alternative to children’s cartoon Peppa Pig which will be set in a “predominantly Muslim town”. The Australian National Imams Council (ANIC) has issued an online plea for parents to support the development of a TV show that teaches...
Navy admiral’s Pearl Harbor speech trolls Colin Kaepernick
A decorated US Navy admiral took the time to troll Colin Kaepernick during the 75th Anniversary Pearl Harbor Day Commemoration ceremony on Wednesday — saying those who died on that fateful day “never took a knee and never failed to stand” during the national anthem. The remarks were made by U.S. Pacific...
Three students charged with kidnapping classmate for sex
Three teens are accused of kidnapping their high school classmate from school so they could try to take turns having sex with her, according to police. An 18-year-old girl said that a male student abducted her on Nov. 28 while walking to class in Cypress Springs, Texas, the Houston Chronicle reported. She was dragged from the...
Greenland’s ice sheet once did a vanishing trick that lasted 280,000 years
Two studies this week on the history of Greenland's ice sheet, home to the some of the world's fastest-melting glaciers, have found that at least once almost the whole country was laid bare of ice for hundreds of thousands of years. The pair of studies are published together in the journal Nature. The first, led by...
WikiLeaks releases over 57,000 personal emails of Erdogan’s son-in-law Berat Albayrak
WikiLeaks has released over 57,000 personal emails of Turkey's Minister of Oil Berat Albayrak, the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The emails spanning from 2000 to 2016 allegedly detail exchanges between Albayrak and the Turkish "ruling elite" and highlight his influence across the country's...
Pakistan Airlines crash: Pop star turned cleric Junaid Jamshed feared among 47 victims
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane is feared to have crashed shortly after taking off from the northern city of Chitral on Wednesday (7 December), according to officials. 42 passengers and five crew were on board the aircraft, which was reportedly bound for Islamabad. "We regret to inform that PIA's ATR-42...
Hillary Clinton gets 2.7 million lead in the popular vote
Hillary Clinton has 2.7 million more votes than Donald Trump, despite losing the presidential election, and the number is expected to rise. Ms Clinton is on track to get more votes than president Barack Obama did in 2012. He won 65.9 million, and she is only about 400,000 votes behind him. The votes are being tallied by David...
Alien life could be found in the clouds of failed stars, according to scientists
If we're going to one day find life beyond Earth, then we need to know where to look, and scientists have identified another potential habitat where aliens could be lurking. That habitat is the upper atmosphere of cold brown dwarfs — massive stellar objects that are somewhere between planets and stars in size, but...
Dinosaurs may have survived extinction events by having a huge range of body sizes
A single dinosaur species contained a huge amount of diversity in terms of the size that the animals grew to, a new study has found. This sets dinosaurs apart from birds, which lost these broad ranges in size within a species or genus, according to a paper published in the journal PNAS. In the study the authors focused on the...
A Donald Trump tweet has been blamed for a temporary fall of Boeing’s shares
United States President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to cut government costs by cancelling the order for new planes to carry the American president, the BBC reported. Six weeks ahead of taking office, he tweeted: "Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control,...
Wolves ‘at the door of Paris’ for the first time in 100 years
Wolves have been spotted near Paris for the first time in more than 100 years, scientists have said. "The wolf is at the door of Paris," Jean-Luc Valérie, chairman of L'Observatoire du Loup (The Observatory of the Wolf), told the Times. He said that the wolves had been spotted in parts of the Paris commuter...
Antarctica is still reeling from rapid melting in the last ice age
Antarctica warmed at 2 to 3 times the rate of the rest of the planet when the last ice age thawed, and records of how the temperatures changed are still present deep in the ice, new research finds. Over a period of 10,000 years, Antarctica warmed by up to 7C more than the rest of the planet. The ice age began to decline 20,000...
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