US government warns iOS users their devices may be in danger

Revealed: How one Big Mac contains meat from 100 cows... McDonald’s shows burger’s journey from cow field to takeaway

• Four decades has passed since first McDonald's opened in South London
• Company has launched campaign to counter a range of McDonald’s ‘myths’ …

Father lifts his son and uses him as a human shield to avoid being pepper-sprayed by the police

• Taron Boddie brought another child with him when he went to pick his son up early from South Scranton Intermediate
• Boddie was without identification and engaged in a verbal dispute with school…

First solar storm from huge sunspot reaches Earth and knocks out satellites - and more could be on their way

• Solar radiation knocked out some radio communication on Earth yesterday
• It came from a giant sunspot seen on the surface of the sun…

Ebola Could Strike 20,000, World Health Agency Says

By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE and ALAN COWELLAUG. 28, 2014…

True scale of police corruption claims revealed: Almost 100 officers a year are suspended over misconduct allegations

• 460 police officers suspended for alleged corruption since the start of 2009
• Offences include lying about suspects and stealing drugs from police…

Cop suspended over Facebook post branding Ferguson protesters ‘rabid dogs’

'My mission is vengeance': Man says he killed four in response to US foreign policy

Published time: August 21, 2014 16:23

A Seattle man has told investigators he killed four people in Washington state and New Jersey this year in a mission to avenge the “millions” of lives “taken every single day” by the United States government, according to court documents.

Ali Muhammad…

Life in space? Sea plankton discovered attached to ISS outer hull

'American bombing had signed my death certificate': Missing US journalist James Wright Foley goes unflinching to his death as ISIS behead him in horrific video, as a warning to Obama

• American photojournalist James Wright Foley has been beheaded by ISIS forces
• Foley has been missing since Thanksgiving 2012 while working in…

Suspect dead after officer-involved shooting in St. Louis near Ferguson

Robots on the streets of America could soon become a reality, says US Defence Agency

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 01:10 GMT, 11 April 2012 | UPDATED: 01:10 GMT, 11 April…

Two top American bankers commit suicide in London as one jumps 500ft to his death from JP Morgan skyscraper and another hangs himself in luxury home…

The little-told story of the massive WWII pet cull

By Alison Feeney-Hart

BBC News Magazine

At the beginning of World War II, a government pamphlet led to a massive cull of British pets. As many as 750,000 British pets were killed in just one week. This little-discussed…

British warship HMS Brilliant torpedoed WHALES during Falklands War after mistaking them for enemy submarines

• Radar on the war ship registered whales as 'Wolf Packs' enemy submarines
• New eyewitness testimony has emerged of the tense days in 1982
  
  

By TOM…

Norwegian Vikings grew hemp

The Sosteli farmsted, in Norway's southermmost Vest-Agder County, offers strong evidence that Vikings farmers actively cultivated cannabis, a recent analysis shows. The cannabis remains from the farmsted date from 650 AD to 800 AD.

This is not the first sign of hemp cultivation in Norway this far back in time, but the find is much more extensive than previous…

MI5 ‘tried to recruit’ Woolwich murder suspect

Published time: May 25, 2013 08:45 

Edited time: May 26, 2013 08:28

UK intelligence service MI5 approached Woolwich killing suspect Michael Adebolajo to offer him a job, a friend of the alleged murderer claimed in a BBC interview. Meanwhile police have arrested three more people suspected of plotting the brutal killing.…

What is killing sugar-cane workers across Central America?

Chronic kidney disease has killed tens of thousands of young men and is becoming more deadly. But nobody knows exactly what it is, or what to do about it…

Libyan arms fueling warfare in Syria, Mali, Gaza Strip – UN report

Published time: April 10, 2013 10:23

Arms out of post-Gaddafi Libya are empowering militant groups, including terrorists and criminal gangs across the Middle East and Africa, a UN report said. Twelve countries are involved in the illicit trade of weapons, including portable SAM missiles.

Eighteen months after the…

Soda kills 180, 000 people a year

Published time: March 20, 2013 18:59

Your sweet tooth could be deadly: researchers have found that 25,000 people died from drinking sugary beverages in the US in 2010 – and 180,000 have died worldwide. The data presents new evidence on the public health hazard triggered by artificial drinks.

Nearly half of all Americans, 48 percent, last year…