World leaders declared progress Friday in safeguarding nuclear materials sought by terrorists and wayward nations, even as President Barack Obama acknowledged the task was far from finished. Closing out a nuclear security summit, Obama warned of a persistent and harrowing threat: terrorists getting their hands on a nuclear...
April Fool’s is here and everyone has a get-out-of-free card for the most inventive lie. Aside from the holiday of hoax, most people lie on occasion to avoid consequences or spare another person's feelings. But your doctor will tell you that fibbing may be harmful to your health. While many people lie to doctors for...
The parents of Ashley Fallis, the wife of Tom Fallis, who was acquitted of murder charges Thursday in connection with her shooting death, said they are in “complete shock” over the not guilty verdict. “I don’t understand how they came to the conclusion that they did,” Ashley’s mother Jenna...
Google has removed an April Fool's Gmail button, which sent a comical animation to recipients, after reports of people getting into trouble at work. The button appeared beside Gmail's normal send button and allowed users to shut down an email thread by sending a gif of a Minion dropping a microphone. However, a flurry...
“Just black emptiness. No thoughts, no consciousness, nothing.” That is the view of the afterlife from a man who has ‘died’ in hospital TWICE. The Reddit user got all philosophical, not to say nihilistic, telling the social media site what it is like to be dead. A man who goes by the screen-name r00tdude...
DONALD TRUMP has sparked global outcry after revealing his nuclear weapons policy — with the US presidential hopeful even refusing to rule out bombing BRITAIN. The controversial property tycoon caused a new storm this week with his claim he is not willing “to take it off the table” when quizzed over whether he...
DALLAS — A Frisco mother who had been missing for days was found dead in her sport-utility vehicle in a McKinney parking lot Thursday evening. Her three children were found alive inside the vehicle and taken to a nearby hospital. Christine Woo and her children — Lauren, 5, Nathan, 3, and Leah, 16 months — had...
CHICAGO — Murders in the nation's third largest city are up about 72%, while shootings have surged more than 88% in the first three months of 2016 compared to the same period last year, according to data released Friday by the Chicago Police Department. Police say the disturbing rise in violence is being driven by...
WASHINGTON — The United States released a public inventory of its supplies of highly enriched uranium, the material that can be used to make nuclear weapons, President Obama said Friday as he opened the second day of the biennial Nuclear Security Summit. "That inventory is one that we have reduced considerably,"...
KRISTEN Stewart’s new love has revealed that she once dated the actress’s old love Robert Pattinson. As if the showbiz world and its relationships weren’t small enough, French musician SoKo has spoken about the time she went on a blind date with the Twilight hunk. The Sun reports that SoKo, 30, who has been...
A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fatally stabbed his fellow pupil in the heart during a row over a biscuit will be sentenced today. Bailey Gwynne, also aged 16, died from a single knife wound to the heart after a fight broke out at Cults Academy in Aberdeen in October last year. The 16-year-old accused, who cannot be named for legal...
EUROPEAN UNION chiefs are drawing up secret plans ordering member nations to incorporate the ‘ring of stars’ emblem of the Council of Europe into their flags. Graphic artists in Brussels have even drawn up proposed designs which show the blue and gold Flag of Europe either displayed in the top left hand corner or...