A mountain lion with a bizarre deformity has left Idaho wildlife officials baffled. The cougar, who was legally shot last week, had a set of fully-formed teeth and what appeared to be whiskers, growing out of the left side of its forehead. On Friday, Idaho Fish and Game said the abnormality may possibly be a result of a...
Assi Ali Mohammed Nasser al-Obeidi, the second deputy of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed during an Iraqi air force strike in the city of Barwana, just east of Haditha, the Iraqi military said Saturday, CNN reported. Assi Ali Mohammed Nasser al-Obeidi was a top ISIS military commander in western Iraq and eastern...
South Korea and the United States said Sunday they had deployed the B-52 Stratofortress, a long-range strategic bomber, over the Korean Peninsula, three days after North Korea said it had tested a hydrogen bomb, according to South Korea's largest news agency Yonhap. It is reported the B-52 bomber left U.S. Andersen Air...
Obama has been stagnant when it comes to the fight against ISIS. That’s why the military is now largely being led by its leadership who are gung-ho about beating back the ISIS scourge and hitting them wherever they live. Not only that, but as ISIS grows stronger because of social media, they also grow larger because of...
A volcanic eruption with the potential to “return humanity to a pre-civilization state” could happen within the next 80 years, according to a study by the European Science Foundation. Have we now heard the last argument in the debate the study triggered? Authors of the Extreme Geohazards: Reducing the Disaster Risk...
Ever wonder what winds up at the bottom of a canal after 15 years? For the first time since 2001, the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris was drained so it could be cleaned, and the photos of the operation do a pretty neat job of answering that question. The project began on Monday, Jan. 4, and is expected to continue for the next...
A violent hailstorm has wreaked havoc in Johannesburg, South Africa, causing the roof of a shopping mall to collapse and local residents to take shelter in their homes. It’s summer in South Africa, but dark clouds gathered over the African nation’s largest city at around 3pm on Saturday, covering the streets with an...
In his first book as Pope, Francis has described the Church as a “field hospital” offering people “first aid.” The pontiff also spoke of his “special relations” with people in prison and the need for the Church to show compassion to homosexuals. “I like to use the image of a field...
In a massive protest against controversial airport construction outside the western French city of Nantes, up to 20,000 demonstrators blocked roads, demanding the reversal of the city’s plan to expand the air hub by forcefully evicting locals. Halting traffic on the Nantes ring road using dozens of tractors and blocking...
At least four people have been killed in a missile strike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres medical facility in Yemen, a spokesman has confirmed. The organization “strongly condemns this,” while adding that 10 people have been injured in the attack. The facility, which was hit by a rocket on Sunday, is in Razeh in the...
Soon after Andrew Lees embarked on his medical career at University College Hospital London, one of his superiors gave him a rather strange reading list. Rather than the usual fusty anatomical volumes, it included The Complete Sherlock Holmes. What on earth could the fictional detective teach an aspiring neurologist? As it...
Speaking at the "round table", the singer Alla Pugacheva has lashed out at the so-called law on the organization of concerts, which the lower house adopted in the first...