A businessman who travelled to space with William Shatner last month has died after a small plane crashed in New Jersey. Glen de Vries, 49, had been aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft on 13 October, spending more than 10 minutes in space after launching along with Shatner and others. He was killed along with […]
A black teenager was allegedly stunned with a taser on Halloween night by high school students donning Ku Klux Klan garb. Attorney Matt Manning, who is representing the teen victim, detailed the attack in a news conference in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Wednesday. The hateful Halloween attack involved high school students in Woodsboro, a small […]
LONDON (NYTIMES) – Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who is fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges, has been granted permission to marry in London in the prison where he has been held since 2019. The news that Assange would be allowed to wed his fiancee, Stella Moris, in Belmarsh Prison was announced […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Moderna held a brief conference call to defend the safety of its Covid-19 shot from a barrage of questions about associated heart risks in young people. Chief medical officer Paul Burton acknowledged on the Thursday (Nov 11) call that the company’s vaccine does appear linked to increased chances of an inflammatory […]
A boy from Alabama, who was born after 21 weeks, has set a world record as the most premature baby to survive. Guinness World Records and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) announced on 10 November that Curtis Means weighed 14.8 ounces (419.5g) at birth and has set a new world record. He was […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Australian company Ellume is recalling 2.2 million at-home Covid-19 tests because they risk returning false positives, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said. The regulator classified the action on Wednesday (Nov 10) as a class I recall, the most serious kind, saying it has received 35 reports of false positives from […]
UNITED NATIONS (REUTERS) – The United Nations Security Council expressed deep concern on Wednesday (Nov 11) over increased violence across Myanmar and in a rare statement, agreed by the 15-members, called for an immediate end to fighting and for the military to exercise utmost restraint. There are reports of a buildup of heavy weapons and […]
Jacob Chansley, who proclaimed he was the ‘QAnon Shaman’ and became the infamous face of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, is facing the strictest penalty yet for any insurrectionist. Chansley, 34, pleaded guilty to felony obstruction of Congress in early September and faces a minimum of three years in prison. The Trump […]
WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – The Asia-Pacific region must not return to the tensions of the Cold War era, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday (Nov 11), ahead of a virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden expected as soon as next week. Mr Xi, in a recorded video message to a CEO forum on the […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – After a series of delays, SpaceX is set to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday night (Nov 10) on the “Crew-3” mission. The orbital outpost is currently operating with just one Nasa astronaut in the US segment to welcome the incoming crew, after the astronauts of the […]