A 102-Year-Old Woman Is Accused Of Murdering Her Roommate
A 102-year-old woman accused of killing her 100-year-old roommate in a nursing home nearly five years ago is facing a second-degree murder charge.Laura Lundquist - the oldest murder defendant in...
View ArticleHere's What It's Like To Come Out Of A Coma
Michael Schumacher’s return to consciousness brings back powerful memories for a writer who was considered lost to the world after suffering bacterial meningitis.When Michael Schumacher was brought out...
View ArticleThis App Allows You To Watch Entire Seasons Of TV Shows In 20 Minutes
No time to catch up on your favourite soap opera or the box set everybody is talking about? Now you can thanks to technology that can condense a film or television episode into two or three minutes.The...
View ArticleNew Pacemaker Extends Lives By Synchronizing Heart Rates With Breathing
A new pacemaker which synchronizes heart rate with breathing could "revolutionize" the lives of people with heart failure, scientists say.The device, which is being developed at the Universities of...
View ArticleGoogle's $3.2 Billion Nest Labs Is Going To Transform Homes, And It's Already...
Google-owned thermostat and smoke alarm maker, Nest Labs, has announced a new programme to encourage developers to integrate their products and services with Nest's own devices.Over the past year, a...
View ArticleWitless Foreigners Are Being Lured Into Karaoke Honey Traps In China
Fifteen members of a “karaoke crime gang” have been arrested by Shanghai police for allegedly luring witless foreigners into underground crooning dens and forcing them to pay thousands of pounds for...
View ArticleWhy Pele Is Overrated
Why, Jesus? Why are we being punished?”In 1962, a plane carrying the Brazilian football team was crossing the Andes on the way to the World Cup in Chile.Suddenly, the plane hit a pocket of turbulence,...
View ArticleRussia Sent A Mysterious Warship To The Baltic Sea
A British frigate on exercise in the Baltic Sea was dispatched to investigate an unknown Russian warship last week, the Ministry of Defense said.HMS Montrose was sent to investigate the Russian vessel...
View ArticleHere's What It Was Like Being A Bodyguard For Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson was so broke before he died he had one of his bodyguards carry around two Oscar statuettes in a briefcase in case he had to pay a bill."The Oscars were in a silver briefcase and I had...
View ArticleLethal Stun Guns Disguised As iPhones Seized By Canadian Police
Canadian police have seized two potentially lethal stun guns disguised as iPhones and warned that anyone buying or carrying one faces arrest and prosecution.Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Hinton,...
View ArticleTinder Use In Brazil Has Skyrocketed During The World Cup
Tinder has experienced a 50 per cent increase in downloads and use in Brazil fueled by amorous tourists as the country hosts the World Cup.The dating app, which was launched 18 months ago, has more...
View ArticleMH370 Investigators Find Evidence Of A Mysterious Power Outage During The...
Air crash investigators probing the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH-370 have discovered possible new evidence of tampering with the plane's cockpit equipment.A report released by Australian air...
View ArticleNew Flu Strain Created For Research Leaves The Human Immune System Completely...
A scientist who carried out research on making influenza viruses more infectious has deliberately created a potentially lethal strain of flu that can evade the human immune system.Yoshihiro Kawaoka of...
View ArticleThe Nazi's 'Perfect Aryan' Poster Child Was Jewish
When Hessy Taft was six months old, she was a poster child for the Nazis. Her photograph was chosen as the image of the ideal Aryan baby, and distributed in party propaganda. But what the Nazis didn’t...
View ArticleThis Artist Sold Her Messy Bed For $4.4 Million
Tracey Emin's controversial My Bed modern artwork has sold at auction for £2.2 million.The 1998 work, which features an unmade bed and a littered floor including empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts...
View ArticleChina Arrests More Than 500 Anti-Communist Protesters In Hong Kong, As...
State-run newspapers in mainland China fight to discredit one of the largest pro-democracy rallies in the country’s recent history after hundreds of thousands hit Hong Kong’s streets to protest against...
View ArticleThe Time Greedo Asked George Lucas To Get Him Coffee — And Other Crazy...
Earlier this year, a photo appeared on the internet of the cast and principal crew of the new Star Wars film gathered for a script reading.For a global fan community, this represented the culmination...
View ArticleFrench Schoolteacher Stabbed To Death In Front Of Her Students
A French primary schoolteacher has been stabbed to death in front of her pupils on the last day of term by one of their mothers in an attack described by President François Hollande as an "abominable...
View Article6 Massive Chinese Projects That Are Reshaping The World
In recent years, Chinese companies have begun a huge wave of construction that is already reshaping the world. Here are six of the most ambitious projects.$32 billion - China-Pakistan economic...
View Article7 Fun Things You Probably Didn't Know About Germany
Following Germany's 7-1 drubbing of the hosts, here are seven facts you didn't know about Germany — and one you didn't know about Brazil.Germany1. Watching the slapstick 1963 British comedy sketch...
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