Monthly Archives: January 2017

Maybe it was just popping round for a sleepover?Image: Tony Harrison/youtube screenshot They’re aren’t many good places for a venomous snake to pop up, but dangling from above a young child’s bed is a particularly bad one. Yet that’s the scenario seasoned reptile handlers Tony Harrison and Brooke Smith found themselves in after being called […]

In this Sept. 10, 2011 file photo, Carrie Fisher kisses her mother, Debbie Reynolds, as they arrive at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.Image: AP Photo/Chris Pizzello A procession of stars arrived at the next door homes of Debbie Reynolds and her daughter Carrie Fisher on a gloomy Thursday afternoon amid reports […]

A lone gunman with a history of mental illness legally checked a 9mm semiautomatic handgun into his baggage on Friday, flew to Ft. Lauderdale airport, and killed five people. He was also accused of attacking his girlfriend in a domestic violence case last year. In January of 2016, according to charging documents obtained by the […]

Washingotn (CNN)US Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy wants to set the record straight about President-elect Donald Trump’s private security team and whether it’s causing conflict with his agents. In an exclusive interview with CNN — his first since Trump’s election — Clancy also offered a wide-ranging look at the unique logistical challenges of providing security […]

Literary detective Heather Wolfe reveals how her passion for manuscripts helped unravel mystery of who the bard really was Deep in the Folger Library, in Washington DC, Heather Wolfe says that studying Shakespeare makes an ideal preparation for the onset of Trumps America. You can see her point: Shakespeare would have revelled in the mad […]

The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s iconic 1985 novel, imagines a bleak future ravaged by environmental disasters and plummeting birth rates. The United States has fallen, replaced by the totalitarian Republic of Gilead, where women are treated as property of the state, and the few who remain fertile are forced into sexual servitude in an attempt […]

Robots at the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US Warren Stamping PlantImage: Getty Images/bill pugliano What if people were paid just for being alive? It may sound like some radical utopian ideal, but that’s the essential proposal at the heart of a growing movement now drawing mainstream support from a diverse array of economists, policy wonks and […]

Image: Getty Images/blue jean images RF Its not a new concept. In the late 1790s, American statesman Thomas Paine called for a universal payment of 15 per year to all his countrymen in exchange for the right to hold private property. First suggested over 200 years ago, the idea of universal basic income never quite […]

Washington (CNN)One of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden’s 11 sons has been placed on a State Department terror watch list after he reportedly threatened terror attacks against the US. Hamza bin Laden was named as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist,” which “imposes sanctions on foreign persons determined to have committed, or pose a serious risk […]

his victory speech in Chicago That night, I was 16 and I didn’t know a damn thing about politics. But I knew that Obama looked like me and he looked like my great-grandmother, who never thought she would see the day that a black man would become the leader of the free world. We watched […]