A mother is suing the Minnesota State Fair after her son allegedly contracted an E. coli infection and developed permanent kidney damage from touching livestock. According to a lawsuit filed last week, Christina Vonderhaar said that, on August 29, she brought her son, then four, to the State Fair, where he pet several animals. Within two … Read more
A physicist in the UK has created the fifth state of matter from her living room during the coronavirus lockdown using quantum technology. Dr Amruta Gadge from the University of Sussex created a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) – a state of matter where extremely cold atoms clump together and act as if they were a single … Read more
YouTube star KSI who’s worth £16million is teased by GMB viewers about his messy bedroom after they spot a cereal bowl and piles of rubbish in the background of a video call YouTuber KSI, whose real name is Olajide Olayinka Williams, appeared on GMB The vlogger and rapper spoke of his forthcoming first solo album Dissimulation Viewers … Read more
A 96-year-old widow with severe dementia has received more than £117,000 from the Government after being underpaid state pension for 20 years. The Department for Work and Pension is accused of ‘shocking’ treatment of Rosemary Chattell, who lives in a Cheshire care home and is unaware she has been handed the vast sum. In a … Read more
Grandparents can keep state pension credits worth £260 a year if they are childminding over phone or video chat Normal family care arrangements have been upended by Covid-19 restrictions Grandparents keeping children occupied by phone or video can still claim valuable pension credits Find out the rules and how to apply for credits below By … Read more
Chinese state media has claimed the US coerced Australia into calling for an inquiry into the origins and spread of coronavirus. An article in the Global Times, a state-controlled tabloid newspaper, said Australia is America’s ‘lapdog’ and serving as a US ‘pawn to create trouble for China‘. It suggested President Donald Trump told Prime … Read more
BREAKING: Multiple people shot by a ‘terrorist armed with an AR-15’ in an Arizona shopping district, state senator says Sen. Martín Quezada tweeted Wednesday evening: ‘I just witnessed an armed terrorist with an AR-15 shoot up Westgate. There are multiple victims’ Glendale police confirmed the incident in a tweet, writing ‘at least two persons were … Read more
This is Kelly’s Landing, a lobster ‘pound’ (or shack) on a wooden deck jutting into Maine’s Moosehead Lake. The woman next to me starts chatting. She’s a resident of Greenville, and delights in telling me that Moosehead Lake is the holiday destination New Yorkers prefer to keep to themselves. ‘This is a quiet, rustic, relaxed … Read more
Having spent days researching all avenues of possible government help, there is definitively very little financial assistance or available benefits for women who are under the increased state pension age and have recently been widowed. My 69-year-old husband passed away in early April due to Covid-19. I turned 64 a week after his death and … Read more
The startling inequalities in lockdown learning are laid bare today after it was revealed that an estimated 700,000 state school pupils are not being set any work by their teachers. Some schools have simply decided against online lessons because they say many children have only limited internet access. Astonishingly, one head teacher said teachers might … Read more