Honolulu police arrested professional surfer Jill Anjuli Hansen, 30, Wednesday night after she allegedly drove a car into an elderly woman in Waikiki, Hawaii News Now wrote. Hansen was charged with attempted murder and is being held on $1 million bail. Read More »
There is no connection between the development of autism with childhood vaccinations, University of Sydney researchers recently found. The first systematic international review was conducted for the research involved more than 1.25 million children for five cohort studies and a further 9920 for five case-controlled studies. Results from both showed that there was no statistical data to support a link ... Read More »
There’s only one more season to go of the series that started the hunky shirtless vampire and werewolf and hybrid-werewolf-vampire and shapeshifter and quarter-vampire and werepanther trend, and it may be saving its craziest stuff for last. HBO’s True Blood returns for its seventh and final season on Sunday June 22, and to stoke your excitement, the network has released ... Read More »
A flight headed to Miami returned to Boston due to the smell of burning bread crumbs. An airlines spokeswoman says Flight 1532 took off from Boston’s Logan International Airport at 6:36 a.m. Sunday, but passengers soon began smelling smoke. Read More »
Medical researchers discovered that young adults who regularly smoked hookah water pipes in bars are at risk of developing cancer and other kinds of illnesses. Based on the study, elevated levels of cotinine, nicotine, tobacco-based cancer-causing agents and volatile organic compounds (VOC) were discovered in the urine samples of hookah smokers, University Herald reported. Read More »
Many people feel that meditation offers a great way to relax without drugs. Research has shown your brain actually works differently during meditation reported the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on May 15, 2014. More thoughts and feelings are processed by your brain during meditation than when you are just relaxing. Read More »
Children as young as nine will be allowed to take drugs to block puberty, which doctors say provides a crucial delay to allow them to decide whether to undergo gender reassignment later. The treatment, which suspends the hormonal changes that cause puberty, will be offered by one NHS trust to children with gender identity disorder (GID), where a person is ... Read More »
An injured sea turtle whose two left flippers had to be amputated is swimming again with the help of a new prosthetic fin designed like a fighter jet’s wings. Called “Hofesh” after the Hebrew word for “freedom,” the turtle has two stumps after he was found badly injured. In 2009, the green sea turtle was brought in by a fishing ... Read More »
A new report shows that glaciers near Alaska are shrinking rapidly, and climate change is causing this substantial melt. The loss of the tens of thousands of glaciers in Alaska and neighbouring British Columbia, Canada alone is deeply worrying, according to scientists. Not only is this glacial melt accelerating, but it may spell a host of problems for humans, including ... Read More »
At least 25 people have been arrested in Turkey following the May 13 mining disaster in Soma that killed 301 people. Three people had been charged with manslaughter. Turkey’s Dogan news agency reported among those arrested on Sunday were the general manager Ramazan Dogru and the mine’s operations manager Akin Celik. Read More »
“Saturday Night Live” opened its season finale with a sketch about the now-infamous elevator fight between Jay Z and Solange Knowles … as Beyonce just watched from the sidelines. Read More »
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