Image copyright Elaine Gardiner Image caption Debbie (left) with her mum Elaine More deaths could occur unless action is taken to keep people safe when obtaining medications from online health providers, says a UK coroner. Nigel Parsley has written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock highlighting the case of a woman who died after obtaining opiate […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Don’t ask how many calories a gargantuan burger like this contains I’ve just watched a fresh turkey being covered in fragments of cheese-flavoured crisps and then stuffed with what looks like three kilos of cheddar. The video has more than four million views on YouTube. Call it a stunt, […]
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Image copyright VTech Image caption Which? found that strangers could connect to the walkie talkies from up to 200m A walkie talkie toy and two karaoke devices have been found to be potentially hackable, consumer group Which? has claimed. The toys’ Bluetooth connections were tested by Which? and cyber-security firm NCC Group. They found a […]
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Image copyright Zone 2 Image caption The video has caused shock online for naming people who have been murdered YouTube has taken down a video by a drill group which appears to name people they claim to have killed. Drill artists don’t normally name names in their music but in Zone 2’s No Censor, a […]
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For centuries scientists, even Darwin, couldn’t make sense of it: Tropical water contains so few nutrients, you can see right through it. And yet coral reefs are oases that support about a quarter of all known species on Earth. How could that be? The answer to this paradox, in part, is sugar. We tend to […]
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Of the strange and unexplained terrains in our solar system, the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus is among the most perplexing. Enceladus is an ocean world, with a vast and briny sea tucked beneath its icy crust; this makes it one of the most tantalizing places in the solar system to look for life […]
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Image copyright Take Two The publisher of the much-lauded BioShock video games has announced that a new title is in development. Past games dealt with topics including human genetic modification, Ayn Rand’s philosophy of individualism, racism and quantum physics, in sci-fi inspired alternative versions of history. The series’ fate had been in doubt after its […]
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Image copyright New South Wales Police/Instagram Police in Australia have issued a fresh appeal to trace the founder of the campaign group Privacy International, over child sex abuse and indecent assault offences which took place in Sydney in the 1980s. Simon Davies has not been found despite a warrant for his arrest being issued in […]
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Image copyright Connecticut State Police Image caption The Tesla Model 3 failed to avoid a traffic incident on a highway in Connecticut. A Tesla has crashed into a police car and another vehicle while on Autopilot in the US. Both the police car and the other vehicle, which had broken down, were stationary at the […]
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Image copyright PA Image caption The maximum punishment for revenge porn is two years in prison A woman has told of her shock after finding her personal details on a website that detailed names of girls men were planning to attack and rape. Becky, which is not her real name, found her details and location […]
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