8 d. ago Doctors find 'giant human parasite' living inside man's bladder after cooking mistake

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: A 35-year-old man in India was found to have a foot-long worm living inside him, and it was still alive and wriggling when doctors removed it

Society

9 d. ago Woman with adult nappy fetish slept in human waste bins to find 'comfort'

Abbi Taylor admitted stealing soiled nappy bags from a children's nursery, and smearing faeces on milk bottles before leaving them dotted around the car park

Politics

9 d. ago ‘Strongest evidence yet’ of alien life beyond our planet uncovered by British researchers

The finding inches the human race closer to proving we are not alone in the universe

Science

2 w. ago Schools relying on digital surveillance find security still takes a human touch

America’s educators have been turning to technology — especially digital surveillance — to screen for students who might harm themselves or others

Events

2 w. ago Killer who was jailed after shooting a London mother and her sleeping nephew dead 'had his human rights breached', European court finds

Obina Christopher Ezeoke, 32, sneaked into the family home of student Bervil Kalikaka-Ekofo, 21, and his aunt Annie Ekofo, 53, through their unlocked front door and executed them in September 2016.

Events

3 w. 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

Politics

3 w. 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...

Events

3 w. 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

Economics

3 w. 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

Events

4 w. 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...

Politics