Residents of Coventry have been left mystified after hundreds of apples fell from the sky over their homes. People in the Keresley area of the city said the fruit came raining down at about 19:00 GMT on Monday, hitting passing vehicles. Parish councillor Sandra Camwell said the apple storm lasted a few minutes and was [...]
A man in Dorset has been left mystified after tiny blue spheres fell from the sky into his garden. Steve Hornsby from Bournemouth said the 3cm diameter balls came raining down late on Thursday afternoon during a hail storm. He found about a dozen of the balls in his garden. He said: “[They're] difficult to [...]
Imagine a landscape of narrow country roads hemmed in by dry stone walls. Imagine village after honey-colored village, each with its church tower punctuating the skyline. Imagine golden-stoned houses blending softly into the scenery. The cotswolds in the UK? No, believe it or not this is a description of the Tur Abdin, the strangely named [...]
Demolition workers were given a fright after photographing a ghostly figure peering through the window of a derelict Victorian guesthouse in Kendal, Cumbria. The image is said to bear an eerie resemblance of Frances Grimshaw, who worked at the guesthouse and stood for hours at the same window taking bookings. David Grimshaw, a former resident [...]
Think twice the next time you call someone as quiet as a mouse—the rodents are actually sophisticated singers, a new study says. For the first time, scientists caught wild male house mice and used digital audio software to examine the durations, pitches, and frequencies of their sounds. The results revealed that the males’ songs are [...]
An Oklahoma Republican is pushing a bill to outlaw the use of human fetuses in food, because, as he says, “there is a potential that there are companies that are using aborted human babies in their research and development of basically enhancing flavor for artificial flavors.” State Sen. Ralph Shortey introduced a bill on Tuesday [...]
Thirteen-month-old Imad Aleeyan, who has six teeth, was found chewing on the head of the 12 inch snake by his mother, who alerted the neighbourhood with her screams. “I was making his milk and I looked over and saw he had a snake in his mouth,” said his mother, Ghadir Aleeyan who lives in the [...]
CAIRO — A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment. The genetics-environment question is key to understanding cancer. AUC professor Salima Ikram, a member of the team that studied the mummy in Portugal for two years, said Sunday [...]
In the latest UFO news, a man videotaping two silvery orbs catches the sight of a bird flying into one of them and plummeting to the ground. The video, posted on YouTube, shows one silvery orb hovering high above, passing through what looks like the chemtrail of an airplane. Suddenly, a second orb appears nearby, [...]
Fillet of dolphin? Polar bear steak? As world population increases, people in coastal poverty-stricken areas are turning to the ocean for their meals, consuming marine mammals such as dolphins and seals, new research suggests. Since 1990, at least 87 species of marine mammals — including dolphins, porpoises and manatees — have been served up in [...]