Ever wondered what would happen if the earth actually found itself in the path of a huge asteroid? Would we send a team of oil rig workers to destroy it with a nuke a la Armageddon or is there something less extreme involved? Well, according to the outline of an emergency plan that has been unveiled in a White House paper, we...
Two stars are set to collide, creating a huge explosion that will be visible from Earth with the naked eye. The cosmic crash is to take place in 2022, give or take a year, and will see one of the stars increase in brightness 10,000-fold – meaning it would be one of the brightest stars in the night sky, for a period....
The National Health Service (NHS) is facing a "humanitarian crisis" in England, the British Red Cross has warned, as its volunteers help frontline NHS staff at 100 hospital. The warning comes days after two patients died after long waits on trolleys and a third was found hanged, in a suspected suicide in...
Nine people have been shot, with reports suggesting five fatalities, in an attack at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. One shooter is believed to have been responsible for the attack, which left at least eight hospitalised, and the gunman has been taken into custody. Fort Lauderdale Airport attack: First picture...
Venezuela search teams have found survivors six days after a military helicopter crashed in the Amazon area of the country, the BBC reported citing local media. Liborio Guarulla, the governor of the Amazonas state, took to Twitter to say that the helicopter was found by members of the Yecuana indigenous tribe on the slopes of...
Joe Biden has never shied away from expressing his dislike of Donald Trump and has, on multiple occasions slammed the president-elect for his inflammatory statements. In a recent interview with PBS NewsHour, the out-going vice president once again voiced his opinion of Trump and said that it was time for him to "be an...
Amanda Nunes blasts 'overrated' Ronda Rousey: This is what I really think about her. Ronda Rousey made her professional MMA debut in March 2011 and won her first 12 fights, becoming UFC's first female champion in the process. But her four-year unbeaten streak came to an end in November 2015 when she was knocked out...
Maria Sharapova has been enjoying some bikini beach time in Hawaii over New year. The currently suspended professional tennis player, 29, showed off her rock hard abs over the weekend as she frolicked on the island of Lanai. The Russian blonde looked stunning in the tiny black two-piece that revealed almost all of her...
This may possibly be the best job in the world. All you have to do is take three Instagram pictures a day while cruising around the world and while getting paid the equivalent of a £52,000 salary. Royal Caribbean International is looking for someone to join their team who will simply document their travels on three...
A newborn baby has died after being given vitamin drops in France. The ten-day-old child suffocated after receiving a dose of Uvesterol D, which is used for Vitamin D deficiency. The baby died of cardio-respiratory arrest two hours after initially getting into trouble on December 21. Officials have now suspended sales of the...
Cape Town — South African golfing star Wayne Westner has died in an apparent hostage drama on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast on Wednesday morning. According to the South Coast Herald website, police spokesperson Captain Vincent Pandarum confirmed the identity of the deceased man, who died as the result of a gunshot...
For centuries it was thought that the mesentery was a fragmented collection of folds in the membrane lining the abdominal cavity. But now doctors have said that it is a distinct organ, which could change the way diseases of the digestive tract are understood. Leonardo da Vinci was the first to characterise the mesentery in a...