13 h. ago Woman freaked out after finding 'human remains' in chimney during home renovation

A woman has gone viral after sharing the 'creepy' discovery she made in her home while she was remodelling it - and people are seriously divided over what she should do

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35 h. ago LA wildfires death toll climbs to 30 after officials find more human remains

Discovery in Altadena months after fires brings deaths in Eaton fire up to 18, while 12 people killed in Palisades fireMonths after wildfires tore through Los Angeles communities, officials announced this week they had discovered another set of human remains, bringing the death toll in the disaster up to 30.Investigators were dispatched to Altadena on Wednesday to investigate possible human remains in the community, which was hit hard by the Eaton fire in January. The special operations response team confirmed that the remains were human, the Los Angeles county medical examiner’s office said in a statement. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago Workers at Biffa recycling plant find human bones as major UK police inquiry begins

The discovery at a Biffa plant in Hartlepool will require a lengthy police investigation, detectives say

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3 d. ago Woman survives car crash only to die in freak accident moments later as body found in well

Mum of four Shirley Obert, 67, disappeared after being involved in a car crash in Georgia last Saturday and then 24 hours later her body was found down a well by search teams

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5 d. ago Just like McCarthy, Trump spreads fear everywhere before picking off his targets | Kenan Malik

Arrests, blacklists and deportations are chilling reminders of the red scare that transformed America‘Gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that goes into the finding and getting of it.” It’s a line spoken by Walter Huston in the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a story about greed and moral corruption directed by his son, John Huston. That line was to have appeared on screen at the beginning of the film. It didn’t, on orders from the studio, Warner Bros. “It was all on account of the word ‘labor’,” John Huston later reflected. “That word looks dangerous in print, I guess.”It was a relatively insignificant moment in the drama of America’s postwar red scare. McCarthyism proper had still to take flight. Yet, so deep ran the fear already that a single, everyday word could create consternation in Hollywood. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Scientists uncover vast 'hidden city' concealed 4,000 feet beneath Giza Pyramids

Researchers in Italy unveiled evidence suggesting multi-thousand-foot-tall wells and chambers exist beneath the Khafre Pyramid - a finding that could radically reshape both Egyptian and human history

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8 d. ago Study finds the age at which human brain starts ageing faster

Findings may lead to new interventions against Alzheimer’s like supplements to slow brain ageing

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9 d. ago Malaria breakthrough as scientists find drug makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes

Researchers say the drug is able to kill older mosquitoes that are most likely to transmit malaria

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1 week ago Tennessee woman suffers 'blunt force trauma' in FREAK dolphin accident that 'felt like a car accident'

A Tennessee mother was rushed into emergency surgery after she was injured in a freak accident while swimming with dolphins in Jamaica.

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3 w. ago CCTV captures last movements of missing Julie Buckley, 54, as police probing her murder find human hair in nearby river

Julie Buckley, 54, from the village of Christchurch in Cambridgeshire, can be seen buying a small bag of shopping including what appears to be kitchen roll at her local Budgens.

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3 w. ago Bungalow owner finds human skeleton while trying to landscape his garden as grim discovery rocks sleepy village

The bones were discovered by a member of the public at a house in Ancaster, Lancashire, with police launching an investigation.

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3 w. ago Bungalow owner finds human skeleton while trying to landscape his backyard as grim discovery rocks sleepy village

The bones were discovered by a member of the public at a house in Ancaster, Lancashire, with police launching an investigation.

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3 w. ago Urgent probe launched after human skeleton find in sleepy village home

The bones were discovered by a member of the public at a house in Ancaster, Lancashire, with police launching an investigation.

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