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Saturday, 16 May 2015

Giant sinkhole appears in a field in southern Turkey

Residents of Konya Province in southern Turkey have spoken of their terror when a giant sinkhole suddenly appeared in a local field. "We are very afraid (for) our lives. It is luck that no one fell into it," said one local farmer. Measuring 10 metres wide and 90 metres deep, the crater is thought to have formed in the space of 24 hours. No one was injured as a result of the ground caving in...

Ohio teacher fired for 'public humiliation' after scolding student bullying other children

© NBC Nicole LeMire was fired by the school board Thursday.      Glen Oak Elementary School teacher told the Olentangy school board she'd fight to keep her job after a split board voted Thursday, May 14, to terminate her contract over bullying accusations. Board members Roger Bartz, Dave King and Kevin O'Brien voted to suspend fifth-grade teacher Nicole LeMire without pay pending the final termination of her contract. Board...

Texas high school student finds 'ginormous bugs' in Michelle O's healthy lunch

© Eagnews      Parents knows it can be difficult to get kids to eat their greens, but after an incident at a Texas high school some students may never eat vegetables again. "There's no way they could've missed (them), picking up a handful of broccoli like they do with their gloves on and not seen these ginormous bugs," Melissa Evans, mother of Caney Creek High School junior Falyn Evans, told Click2Houston. Falyn Evans and her...

Families heading towards homelessness: UK rental property evictions hit record high

© Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett      Housing campaigners are calling for a drastic intervention in the housing market as the number of individuals being evicted from rental properties is at its highest level since records began. The latest government figures show the number of evictions in the first quarter of this year rose to 11,307, an increase of 8 percent on the same period in 2014 and the highest level in a single quarter since...

Every man, woman and child: Why NSA surveillance is worse than you've ever imagined

© Matt Mahurin      Last summer, after months of encrypted emails, I spent three days in Moscow hanging out with Edward Snowden for a Wired cover story. Over pepperoni pizza, he told me that what finally drove him to leave his country and become a whistleblower was his conviction that the National Security Agency was conducting illegal surveillance on every American. Thursday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York...

Family outraged after cop pulls over entire funeral procession for driving too slow

© KTLA Grieving daughter Rachel Behn-Humphrey arguing with CHP officer      Hollywood, CA — The CHP is under fire this week after one of their finest pulled over an entire funeral procession for driving too slow. In an ostensible attempt to prevent a traffic problem caused by the procession, the CHP officer caused a far worse problem after having 100 cars stopped along the freeway. The incident was captured on cell phone video...

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Five ingredients that poison your brain

     There is no shortage of things driving us crazy in the world today, but there are some things that could do it in a shorter amount of time. These gut disturbing, liver compromising, and brain damaging ingredients have come from the "infinite genius" of man, and have clearly ruined our ability to think clearly. Avoid these 5 ingredients scrupulously, and watch your brain function improve: Gluten Gluten is a common protein...

Hailstorm causes injuries in Germany

Residents described seeing large hailstones      At least nine people have been injured and dozens of homes damaged in a hailstorm in southern Germany. There were reports of hailstones the size of golf balls in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Winds of up to 120 km/h (75mph) were reported on Wednesday night and residents near the Bavarian city of Augsburg spoke of seeing a tornado. Roofs were badly damaged, blocks of flats...

Ohio cops shoot unarmed man who was skateboarding

image used for illustrative purposes from COPS episode 2733      Police officers in Cincinnati, Ohio are investigating an officer-involved shooting of a man riding a skateboard in the neighborhood of College Hill. Cincinnati Police Department detectives say that officers had been called to the 6000 block of Hamilton Avenue on Friday, but they have revealed little else about the shooting. Eyewitnesses, however, say that the...

Electric wound care developed in England

© Thinkstock Hospitals might need to capture this in the future.      Researchers at the University of Manchester are developing a shocking new solution to an age old problem: A medical method that can improve wound healing by electrifying a patient's skin. Dr. Ardeshir Bayat and his colleagues recruited 40 volunteers and gave each of them a harmless, half-centimeter cut on their upper arm. Those study participants were then...

Odd animal behaviour: A beaver walks into a hardware store in Fairbanks, Alaska

© Angelesa Ward A beaver pauses in the middle of an aisle at the Lowe's store in Fairbanks, Alaska, Friday, May 15, 2015.      Sometimes driftwood just isn't enough, one beaver decided when it took an impromptu trip to Lowe's early Friday morning. The beaver wandered into the parking lot of the Lowe's construction and home improvement store on the Johansen Expressway at about 7 a.m., triggering the automatic doors and strolling...

8 inches of snow falls in May in Flagstaff, Arizona

© National Weather Service The National Weather Service office in Bellemont just west of Flagstaff had received 8.4 inches of snow from the storm through late Friday afternoon.      May is looking like March in Flagstaff -- and the National Weather Service in Bellemont is right in the middle of it. The most recent storm to roll through the Flagstaff stalled over the Weather Service office early Friday, dumping more than 8 inches...

Rare rainbow phenomenon 'circumhorizontal arc' appears in Tennessee sky

© Wate.com      As you look up into the sky, you will see a different view each day. Many saw a fairly rare weather phenomenon Thursday called a circumhorizontal arc, which may look similar to a sun halo, but it's not the same thing. A number of viewers sent in photos of the circumhorizontal arc, but many didn't understand what exactly was in the sky. The sun refracts off of ice crystals in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds to form...

Rare rainbow phenomenon 'circumhorizontal arc' appears in Tennessee skies

© Wate.com      As you look up into the sky, you will see a different view each day. Many saw a fairly rare weather phenomenon Thursday called a circumhorizontal arc, which may look similar to a sun halo, but it's not the same thing. A number of viewers sent in photos of the circumhorizontal arc, but many didn't understand what exactly was in the sky. The sun refracts off of ice crystals in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds to form...

Thousands of criminals including murderers, paedophiles and heroin dealers seek work in British schools

Two people who applied to work in classrooms had been convicted of murder, three for attempted murder and one for soliciting to murder      Murderers, paedophiles and heroin dealers are among thousands of convicted criminals who have applied to work in classrooms across Britain. More than 16,000 people with criminal convictions have applied to work as teachers, teaching assistants and even heads in the past three years, despite...

Human Rights Watch: Mentally ill prisoners suffering abuse in facilities across the US

© prisonpath.com      Human Rights Watch has issued a report stating that mentally ill prisoners are being abused in detention facilities across the US, and that these practices are happening in over 5,000 facilities. US prison staff use excessive & even malicious force on prisoners with mental disabilities http://bit.ly/1IIbcYN http://pic.twitter.com/sK3QqDDPjh — Human Rights Watch (@hrw) May 12, 2015 The activist group...
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