18 US cruise evacuees have coronavirus after CDC warned against flying sick people

Health officials warned the State Department not to fly 14 American cruise passengers from the Diamond Princess who tested positive in Japan back to the US alongside healthy passengers, for fear the virus would spread.  The State Department batted aside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) staunch warnings and flew all 328 evacuees … Read more

Satellite images reveal that 20 per cent of snow cover on an Antarctic island MELTED in just 10 days

A special issue of Nature has published a series of studies looking at how monitoring Antarctica from space is providing crucial insights into its response to a warming climate.  Here are their key findings:  Three trillion tonnes of ice has been lost from Antarctica since 1992 The Antarctic Ice Sheet lost around three trillion tonnes … Read more

Joaquin Phoenix saves a mother cow and her calf from slaughterhouse after moving speech at Oscars

Joaquin Phoenix helped save a mother cow and her newborn calf from the slaughterhouse just one day after he advocated for animal rights in his Oscars acceptance speech.  The 45-year-old actor was filmed rescuing the cow and her calf from the Manning Beef slaughterhouse in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pico Rivera the day after he accepted … Read more

The Tattooist of Auschwitz Heather Morris is sued over new blockbuster

Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris is based on the harrowing story of Cecilia Kovachova The best selling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz faces legal action after being accused of ‘lying’ about the principal character in her latest blockbuster novel. Heather Morris’s new book ‘Cilka’s Journey’ is based on the real life, harrowing story of … Read more

Joaquin Phoenix saves a mother cow and her calf from slaughterhouse after moving speech at Oscars

Joaquin Phoenix saves a mother cow and her calf from slaughterhouse… after vegan rally cry during Oscars acceptance speech Actor, 45, talked about farming industry at the Academy Awards The day after, he visited a Pico Rivera, California facility There, he chat with its president and helped bring back a mother cow and calf  By Adam … Read more

Meghan and Harry ‘want to move to Malibu California’ after Megxit

Palace fit for a Prince? Brand new $7m Malibu home that has pool and tennis court with Robert Downey Jr and Caitlyn Jenner as neighbours is possible post-Megxit pad for Harry and Meghan Markle £5.4m Malibu home boasts a swimming pool, tennis court and five bedrooms for Meghan, Harry and Archie Mansion used to be … Read more

Family sues 2 California OBGYNs who sent pregnant woman home with dangerously high blood pressure

The family of a 23-year-old pregnant woman who died after signs of dangerously high blood pressure were ignored is suing the two OBGYNs who treated her.  Demi Dominguez, of Bakersfield, California, went to Mercy Hospital on April 15 with swelling and high blood pressure, reported 23ABC. She was kept overnight for observation but was sent … Read more

Top scientist retracts an unrelated paper and admits she was a ‘bit busy’ when it was submitted

Frances Arnold of the US was awarded for using the principles of evolution to develop new enzymes, which are the basic chemical tools of life. At first she tried to force such changes using more traditional methods, but her breakthrough came when she allowed evolutionary forces such as selection and even chance to govern the … Read more

Incredible image of glowing orb that resembles a UFO is revealed to be a lenticular cloud

Incredible image of glowing orb that resembles a UFO is revealed to be a lenticular cloud – a phenomenon that forms on the side of volcanic Mount Shasta in the winter’ California officials shared photos of a lenticular cloud that formed over the Mount Shasta region in California  Lenticular clouds are known for their odd … Read more

Coronavirus cruise ship Diamond Princess will be back in service in April after ‘fully sanitized’

Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. Over 2,000 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 75,000 have been infected. But experts predict the true number of people with the disease could be as high as … Read more