Boys were sleeping over at an apartment above the Reptile Ocean pet store in Campbellton in New Brunswick, Canada Serpent escaped its cage and slithered up to the apartment through the air ducts Punched a hole in the ceiling and dropped onto boys who were sleeping Royal Canadian Mounted Police have seized the snake and are investigating Two small brothers, age 5 and 7, have been tragically strangled to death […]

Japan’s nuclear watchdog has said the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is facing a new “emergency” caused by a build-up of radioactive groundwater. A barrier built to contain the water has already been breached, the Nuclear Regulatory Authority warned. This means the amount of contaminated water seeping into the Pacific Ocean could accelerate rapidly, it said. There has been spate of water leaks and power failures at the plant, devastated by […]

Deep sea divers have captured images of the elusive Pyrostremma spinosum in open water off the coast of Tasmania Its hollow, cylindrical body is made up of thousands of tiny creatures called zooids that feed on plankton Also known as the sea squirt, they are incredibly rare and only rarely spotted by diving groups Divers in Australia have captured rare images of the Pyrostremma spinosum, or pyrosome, sea creature off […]

Michal Navratil dreamed he could fly like his favourite cartoon hero Superman when he was a child So when he took part in the High Diving World Championships he chose to jump wearing the man of steel’s cape The stunt was captured on camera and has become an internet hit When professional diver Michal Navratil was a boy he dreamed he could fly like his favourite cartoon hero Superman. So […]

Paulo Henrique Machado has lived almost his entire life in hospital. As a baby he suffered infantile paralysis brought on by polio, and he is still hooked up to an artificial respirator 24 hours a day. But despite this, he has trained as a computer animator and is now creating a television series about his life. The Brazilian’s first memories are of exploring the hospital he has lived in for […]

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The airliner of the future may feel very alien to our fuel-guzzling planes, at least if one ambitious quest to build the Prius of the skies is anything to go by. How would you feel about flying on an electric airliner? Current planes may be noisy, rattly, and relatively inefficient, but there’s something reassuring about being able to hear the constant roar of the engines, or glance out of the […]

A ban on sales of older models of Apple’s iPad and iPhone in the US has been overturned by the Obama administration. In June, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that Apple infringed a patent of rival Samsung. President Barack Obama’s trade representative has now vetoed that decision because of its “effect on competitive conditions in the US economy”. Such a veto is a relatively rare event. The patent […]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS The 25-year-old woman escaped an attack and vanished Her family says she is recovering, but still in bad shape A man is charged with aggravated assault, sexual assault, obstructing an officer The family of a 25-year-old Canadian woman, who authorities say survived 12 days in the bush, said Thursday she is recovering but still in bad shape. Before reappearing last week, she was last seen on July 14 […]

A space telescope aimed at the sun has spotted a gigantic hole in sun! A dark spot that covers nearly a quarter of our closest star, spewing solar material and gas into space. The so-called coronal hole over the sun’s north pole came into view between July 13 and 18 and was observed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO. NASA released a video of the sun hole as seen […]