File photo: UK’s RAF Fairford base Iran is seeking to expand its attacks in Britain to include military installations, with the suspected plot against the US-run RAF Fairford air base in September being “not unique”, MI5 chief Ken McCallum said on Tuesday.Speaking in his annual assessment of threats to the UK, the head of Britain’s…
Michael Jackson (AP photo) Michael Jackson suffered severe scalp burns on January 27, 1984, when his hair caught fire while he was filming a Pepsi commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The shoot featured a staged musical performance complete with pyrotechnics, but sparks ignited his hair as he descended a staircase. The accident…
The shed features an 18-foot gaming table, storage for equipment and miniatures, and a tea-making station. A garden shed built by a group of friends in Lancashire for their tabletop gaming sessions has won Britain’s 2026 Shed of the Year competition. Known as Otty’s Hobby Shed 2.0, the building belongs to Chris Otterburn and serves…
The research examined more than 450 snake species from around the world. Rather than looking at colour in isolation, researchers considered how snakes appeared against the backgrounds of their natural habitats. In the wild, survival often depends on staying out of sight. But for some snakes, the opposite may be true. A flash of red,…
A Delta Air Lines flight arriving from New York was evacuated. A Delta Air Lines flight arriving from New York was evacuated after landing at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday following a bomb threat, Israeli media reported. Security officials searched the aircraft but found no suspicious items.Passengers were escorted from the Airbus A330 to…
The identification tags were found among old military records at Beverly Veterans’ Services (Credit: CBS) A 104-year-old woman in Massachusetts has received her brother’s military identification tags 83 years after he died in a plane crash during World War II. Dorothy Stewart, who was 21 when her brother Bernard Parnell died in 1943, was reunited…
According to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC), Antarctic sea ice likely reached its annual maximum extent for the year on September 14. On the date, the ice covered an estimated 17.59 million square kilometres, making it the third-lowest maximum on record. It has fallen a million square kilometres or almost…
The two-day sale offered old subway signs, seats and MetroCards once used across New York City. New Yorkers waited for hours in south Brooklyn to buy old subway signs, plastic seats and other items removed from the city’s transit system at an annual sale organised by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on Sunday.The two-day sale…
Sydney’s Opal Tower declared defect-free after 8 years of repairs, relocations and legal disputes (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Sydney’s Opal Tower has been declared defect-free nearly eight years after structural cracks forced residents to leave their homes on Christmas Eve 2018. What began as an emergency evacuation at the newly built residential complex led to years…
Train travelling from Karachi to Peshawar derails in Pakistan (Representative image) (PTI) At least five people were killed and several others injured after a passenger train derailed in Pakistan’s Punjab province early Tuesday, Pakistan-based Geo News reported.The Rehman Baba Express, travelling from the southern port city of Karachi to the northwestern city of Peshawar, derailed…
