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UK immigration minister confirms work to start on £1.9m Calais wall
Work is about to begin on “a big, new wall” in Calais as the latest attempt to prevent refugees and migrants jumping aboard lorries heading for the Channel port, the UK’s immigration minister has confirmed. Robert Goodwill told MPs on Tuesday that the four-metre high wall was part of a £17m package of...
Can ‘Sex Robots’ Replace Relationships With Human Beings?
Humans should be "very careful" about developing intimate relationships with robots, experts have warned. The Human Choice and Computers Conference, held on Wednesday, will study the question of technology and intimacy and examine whether humans could ever fall in love with a robot. Dr Kathleen Richardson, a senior...
World’s First Face Transplant Patient Isabelle Dinoire Dies
The world's first face transplant recipient has died, 11 years after the pioneering surgery. Frenchwoman Isabelle Dinoire had reportedly suffered from two types of cancer following years of taking anti-rejection medication. Doctors at Amiens University Hospital have only just confirmed that she died in April following a...
WHO recommends safe sex for people returning from Zika-affected zones
The World Health Organisation has said that men and women returning from areas in which the Zika virus is actively spreading should practise safer sex or abstinence for six months, regardless of whether they are trying to conceive or showing symptoms. The guidance is a change from WHO’s interim recommendation on 7 June,...
Dinosaur footprints found on Western Australian beach
Dinosaur footprints have been spotted on an Australian beach by a woman who was collecting shells when she chanced upon the giant prints. Bindi Lee Porth, 37, was at Cable beach, a popular tourist destination in the Western Australian town of Broome. Broome is known for a 130-million-year-old set of dinosaur footprints which...
Man breaks into home and paints dog purple
And in today’s weird news we bring you the story of a man who was arrested after breaking into a family home and painting their dog purple. Police went to the scene in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, to reports of a stolen car that had crashed. Moments later they got another call to reports of a break-in at a home...
Philippines’ Duterte Threatens to Curse at Obama Over Drug War Killings
Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte warned Barack Obama Monday not to question him about extrajudicial killings or "I will swear at you" at an upcoming summit. The leader — often described as southeast Asia's answer to Donald Trump — was speaking at a news conference ahead of this week's ASEAN...
One in four supermarket chicken samples contain antibiotic-resistant E coli
One in four samples of chicken bought from major supermarket chains contained antibiotic-resistant E coli in a study by the University of Cambridge. The bacterium was discovered in packs of meat sold at Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Aldi, Waitrose, the Co-op and Morrisons. Scientists tested products such as whole roasting...
Panic at Paris railway station after reports of ‘bomb on train’
Terrified passengers were evacuated amid reports of a suspicous package on a Thalys train at the city's Gare du Nord railway station. The French bomb squad have carried out a controlled explosion following the discovery. Paris is on high alert following a string of bloody terror atttacks, carried out by Islamist...
German Anti-Immigrant Party Beats Angela Merkel’s Party in Her Home State
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats fell to third place in a state election on Sunday behind the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) and anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, TV projections showed. In a stinging defeat for Merkel in her home district one year ahead...
Australia’s new bank note is like something from a sci-fi movie
If you’ve been to Australia you’ll know its money is pretty awesome. Woman glances up from phone; comes face to face with a 300lb bear Features like it being waterproof, and therefore untearable, have for a long time made our dull collection of cotton notes seem pretty archaic. And just when we thought the...
China ratifies Paris climate change agreement ahead of G20
China has announced its ratification of the Paris climate change agreement, paving the way for a hotly anticipated joint US-China statement on the fight against global warming later on Saturday. In a brief dispatch on Saturday morning, China’s official news agency, Xinhua, said members of the country’s rubber-stamp...
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