Month: July 2019

Animal left incontinent, paralysed and with fluid in lungs, owner says Via: Police dog mauls pet cat to death

Bill and Hillary Clinton were all smiles as they arrived to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City Monday evening to meet their daughter Chelsea and welcome their new grandson baby Jasper. Via: Chelsea Clinton and husband Marc Mezvinsky welcome their third child, a son named Jasper

Chris Kraft, the founder of NASA’s mission control, died Monday just two days after the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Via: Legendary NASA flight director Chris Kraft dies at 95

On 14 July, Donald Trump used Twitter to tell four unnamed Democratic congresswomen to ‘go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came’. His racist language shocked many around the world, but he has refused to back down. The Guardian’s Jamiles Lartey looks at Read more…

Public Health England is urging people to cover their windows to keep rooms cool, and not to go out between 11am and 3pm if they are vulnerable to the heat. Via: Health alert is issued as UK heatwave is set bring record-breaking temperatures

Inventor Franky Zapata (pictured at Bastille Day celebrations in Paris) wants to fly around 37 miles from Calais to Dover on Thursday, refuelling halfway across the water. Via: French 'flying soldier' plans to cross the Channel on his hoverboard

Nationwide outages caused by ‘electromagnetic attack’ on hydroelectric system, government claims Venezuela has been hit by a nationwide power outage which the government has blamed on an “electromagnetic attack” on the nation’s hydroelectric system.The blackouts affected at least 14 of Venezuela’s 24 states, including the capital Caracas where power went Read more…

The shocking killing of 18 people in a highlands village may have ‘changed everything’, warns police minister The pictures that came out of a remote highlands village in Papua New Guinea two weeks ago were not, at first glance, particularly graphic: bulging cocoons of blue mosquito nets hanging from wooden Read more…