The number of unprovoked shark attacks reached a record high of 98 in 2015 – a massive jump of 26 from 2014, beating the previous record of 88 from back in 2000. The US led the way with 59 unprovoked attacks, surpassing its previous high of 53 in 2012 and 2000, according to the International Shark Attack File, which began...
A newly-released image of Saturn’s ‘moonlets’ from the European Space Agency has delighted astronomy enthusiasts.In the extraordinary picture, the small satellites can be seen disturbing the rings encircling Saturn, our solar system’s second-largest planet at almost 100 times the size of Earth....
South Korea has released the first images of debris believed to be left over from a long-range rocket that North Korea launched into space on Sunday. According to Seoul, Pyongyang’s satellite has reached orbit and passes over South Korea four times a day. “The proportion of the long-range missile’s diameter...
How does it feel to give up your nationality, to renounce the country you were born in, potentially forfeiting the chance to ever return? "It's not going to be easy at all. It's the last thing I ever thought of doing," Jane tells me when I meet her in a Paris cafe. Her voice cracks and her eyes well up. She is...
The 40-year-old mother of six isn’t done getting ink. At ast count, Angelina Jolie was thought to have around 17 tattoos on her body, including a new forearm tattoo she added just in December. But now the count is up to 20 as photos of Jolie on the set of her new film, First They Killed My Father, revealed three new...
At least 10 people were killed and scores more injured, police say, after two passenger trains collided in the German state of Bavaria. The head-on crash happened near Bad Aibling, a spa town about 60km (37 miles) south-east of Munich. The transport minister said the trains had crashed into each other while both travelling at...
Lisa Peskova published photos from her holidays in Sochi in Instagram....
INDIAN authorities say a falling object that killed a bus driver and injured three others was a meteorite. If proven, it would be the first such death in recorded history. Experts said other explanations were possible for the incident on Saturday in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The impact of the object left a 1.5 metre...
The couple left their brood at home to enjoy dinner at the Vogue editor-in-chief's New York home David and Victoria Beckham made a seriously handsome duo as they headed to a dinner party on Monday night. The stylish pair dusted off their finest clothes for a party at Anna Wintour's house in New York City sans their...
Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, aka Umm Sayyaf, 25, is currently in Iraqi custody for her terrorism-related activities The widow of a senior ISIS leader has been charged over the death of American aid worker Kayla Mueller, who was tortured, raped and murdered while held hostage in Syria. Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, aka Umm...
TAINAN, Taiwan — Prosecutors in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan have issued an arrest warrant for the developer of a building which collapsed during an earthquake on Saturday killing at least 39 people, a government official said on Tuesday. The quake struck at about 4 a.m. on Saturday (3.00 p.m. ET on Friday) at the...
A suspected suicide bomber who blew a hole in the fuselage of a Daallo Airlines plane last week and forced it to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu was meant to be on a Turkish Airlines flight, Daallo's chief executive said on Monday. The bomber was sucked out of the plane through the 1-metre-wide (1-yard-wide) hole...