POLICE in Canada are looking for a man who fired a crossbow point blank at a woman after posing as a parcel delivery man. The event happened at the end of last year in Ontario, but the police have asked the public for help after failing to identify the aggressor despite several clues. The biggest of these is the presence of CCTV footage taken at the residence where the victim lived and released for...
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BIRDS kill a handful of people each year, usually after collisions with cars or aeroplanes while avian flu threatened to develop into an epidemic after crossing over to humans. However, the sub-category of the bird deaths mortality tables (if there is such a thing, and there probably is) of people killed by actual bird attacks is so small as to be virtually unmeasurable. It now seems that the actuaries or...
A well-known actress is among the dozens of people who could be facing jail time after admitting to their parts in a huge college admissions scandal in the US. Felicity Huffman, probably best known for her starring role in American Housewives as well as parts in series such as the X-files, has pleaded guilty to paying someone to falsify her daughter’s SAT scores, the key criteria for entrance into top...
AS China’s economy begins to boom, many of the trappings of western society are also becoming more popular there. These include theme parks, with marine-themed parks proving particularly popular with 76 built and another 25 in the pipeline. Not everyone gives much thought to where the larger creatures that are the main attraction come from, and the answer is quite disturbing - they are being captured...
THERE has been international condemnation as this week the Kingdom of Brunei brought in laws that included death by stoning for gay sex and adultery. The small South East Asian state is effectively a complete dictatorship, with the Sultan acting as both king and prime minister, giving him unprecedented powers. The global LGBT community think he has hugely abused these powers by making Brunei the first...
AN eight meter (26 foot) sperm whale that washed up on the Italian coast last week was found to have an astonishing 22 kilos of plastics in its stomach, leading environmentalists to question how much damage human consumption is doing to marine life. The whale had been pregnant but the foetus was also dead while the state of decomposition led scientists to believe it had probably died before its mother,...
PRESIDENT Trump has been accused of many things since becoming leader of the free world, collusion, misogyny, racism, abuse and downright stupidity to name but a few. However recent allegations may prove too much for some of his conservative supporters - he is accused of cheating at his beloved golf. The sport, both a hobby and a business for him, takes up an inordinate amount of his time according to...
WHILE India celebrates its achievement in shooting down an orbiting satellite saying it has elevated them to the “elite tier of space powers”, others have a very different viewpoint. Jim Brindenstine, the head of NASA, called the demonstration “a terrible thing” citing the additional 400 pieces of debris that are now orbiting the planet as a result of the military exercise. He said the space...