Blue Scorpion Venom: Cuba's Miracle Drug

By Jean Friedman-Rudovsky Thursday, Apr 18 2013

Six-year-old Leandro Gonzáles sits attentively at the foot of his parents' double bed, his legs dangling along the faded flower-print bedspread. His tiny brown eyes follow …

At least 17 dead after tornadoes cause devastation across central states as forecasters warn another HUNDRED twisters could hit the area this week 

• More than a hundred tornadoes set to hit the central states this week at the start of the nation's tornado season
  
  
• The Arkansas tornado touched down about 10 miles west of Little Rock at around 7…

'Wake up baby!' The chilling words U.S. couple heard in the middle of the night from a man who had hacked their daughter's baby monitor and was WATCHING her sleep

By JOEL CHRISTIE…

Tennessee sheriff's deputy is FIRED after he was caught on camera choking an unresisting college student until he passed out

• Frank Phillips, 47, was found 'unsuitable for continued employment' by Knox County Sheriff J.J. Jones
  
  
• Deputies were called to a University of Tennessee student party that spilled out onto a residential street
• Students threw beer bottles at officers and…

Ukraine vows to 'liquidate' pro-Russian rebels after body of 'brutally tortured' politician is found in river

• Ukraine ends Easter truce after two bodies found near town of Slaviansk
• One was Vladimir Rybak, a member of president's Batkivshchyna…

DNA is 'edited' to cure liver disease for first time - and the technique could be used to treat Down's Syndrome and other genetic disorders within years

• Named Crispr, technique can correct a single ‘letter’ of the genetic alphabet
• It does this by using enzymes to target specific parts of the DNA…

Coming to a street near you - the lights that keep you awake and could make people ill...

• Councils claim LED lights use less energy than conventional sodium bulbs
• Hounslow council agree to dim lights after complaints from residents
• But the local authority won't replace the 16,000 lights across the borough
• Bury…

Islamic school hardliners 'confiscated Easter eggs from pupils' as head of Ofsted takes charge of inquiry into 'Muslim Trojan Horse plot'

• Schools being investigated over plot to introduce radical Islamic teaching
  
  
• Birmingham schools allegedly targeted by Muslim hardliners
• 'Morality squads' of older students allegedly smashed pupil's Easter…

Armed man takes hostages in southwestern Russian bank

Have we finally found EARTH 2.0? Astronomers discover first same-size planet in habitable zone that could support alien life

• The first Earth-sized world in the habitable zone of a star has been found
• Kepler-186f is 1.1 times the size of Earth and orbits its star in 130 days
• The discovery was made by a team…

America's pyramid: Photos reveal the Egyptian-esque missile facility used by the U.S. military to detect and launch ICBMs

• The Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex became operational in 1975
• The Complex's high-tech radars were housed in a pyramid-shaped building in rural Nekoma, North…

Victory for Nevada's last rancher! Federal agents release cattle and back down from 'range-war' after armed protestors rally to support rancher 'kicked off land his family has held since 1870'

• Bureau of Land Management would not enforce court order to remove  cattle and was pulling out of the area
• Politicians have compared the…

Adolf Hitler’s Liverpudlian half-brother in the 1911 census

We’ve unearthed Adolf Hitler’s half-brother in our 1911 census records, and his return makes for fascinating reading.

Alois Hitler Jr had a troubled childhood and is said to have had a rocky relationship with his parents. In 1910 he met a young woman called Bridget Elizabeth Dowling, at the…

• Heidi Wright was forced to take eight-hour bus ride after being denied access to LAX flight
  
  
• Airport staff say disabled woman only had photocopy of expired ID 
  
  

By JESSICA JERREAT…

What the Tamiflu saga tells us about drug trials and big pharma

We now know the government's Tamiflu stockpile wouldn't have done us much good in the event of a flu epidemic. But the secrecy surrounding clinical trials means there's a lot we don't know about other medicines we take…

Obama administration wins Jefferson Muzzle award for restricting free press

The river you can’t see for RUBBISH: Former Indonesian paradise is now clogged with household waste and toxic chemicals dumped by textile factories

• The Citarum in Java is now said to be the dirtiest river in the world
• More than 35million people still rely on it for drinking and washing
• Greenpeace report last year claimed one of the largest textile…

‘Anti-radiation belt’ developed by Israeli firm for nuclear emergencies

Published time: April 09, 2014 19:01

An Israeli company called Stemrad has developed a body belt that protects people from the worst effects of gamma radiation. Called the Stemrad 360 Gamma, the belt could be a lifesaver for the emergency services in a nuclear accident.

Oren Milstein, the co-founder…

Moroccan national planned to use ‘drone-like flying bomb’ on federal building

Published time: April 08, 2014 03:20

A Moroccan national was arrested in Bridgeport, Connecticut for allegedly planning to use a radio-controlled model airplane as a “drone-like flying bomb,” with the aim of slamming it into a school and a federal building.

The FBI arrested El Mehdi Semlali Fahti, 27, after “wires and…

Former executive of bank that helped trigger collapse of RBS found dead along with his wife, 57, and daughter, 22

• Jan Peter Schmittmann, wife and daughter found dead on Saturday
  
  
• Their bodies were discovered by Schmittmann's elder daughter
• The former top banker came under fire for taking a large pay-off
• It…