Britain’s £38bn Covid loans TIME BOMB: Government’s rescue schemes leave taxpayer facing huge bill By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 23:21 BST, 16 June 2020 | Updated: 23:21 BST, 16 June 2020 Struggling firms have received more than £38billion in emergency money – fuelling fears that taxpayers will foot the bill for huge … Read more
‘Involuntarily celibate man, 23, accidentally amputated his own hand making a bomb to blow up hot cheerleaders’ Cole Carini arrived at a hospital on Tuesday with a missing hand, missing fingers on his other hand, and shrapnel wounds on his neck Carini was subsequently interviewed by police who obtained a warrant to search his home … Read more
This is the shocking moment a protester charged with four counts of attempted murder appears to throw a Molotov cocktail at an occupied NYPD police cruiser. Samantha Shader, 27, is accused of chucking the petrol bomb at the police vehicle – which had four officers inside – in Brooklyn shortly after 10.30pm on Friday. Footage obtained … Read more
In 1936, when tensions were rising across Europe, the War Office acquired Monkton Farleigh, a disused quarry near Bath. It transformed the mine into the largest underground ammunition depot in the world, keeping thousands of weapons secure and hidden throughout the Second World War. The mine fell into disrepair, but in 2008 it was acquired … Read more
China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test explosions despite claiming to observe an international pact banning such blasts, the U.S. State Department said in a report on Wednesday that could further fray U.S.-Chinese relations. The finding may worsen ties already strained after President Donald Trump said the U.S. is investigating the possibility … Read more
Cold War atomic bomb testing from more than 50 years ago has helped scientists correctly determine the age of whale sharks for the first time. An international team of scientists measured levels of a carbon isotope in shark bone that permeated the oceans during atomic bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s. The presence of the … Read more