Police are increasingly using drones to monitor criminal suspects, but in Australia, the criminals are suspected of using drones to monitor the police. An international drug gang consisting of four Australians, one Briton and two Canadians were arrested by Australian police for smuggling in three large bags of cocaine from Panama with a estimated street value of $30 million, police said . The men were arrested in different locations during the course of several police raids around Melbourne and were subsequently charged with drug traff…
The US military's experiments shooting lasers from vehicles continue with another important milestone: Laser-equipped attack helicopter fired at targets for the first time. The US Army keeps getting better at nailing UAV targets with ground-based truck lasers, but it's harder to fire accurately from helicopters. Not only does their position fluctuate with airborne conditions, but their whole frame vibrates as their rotors spin fast enough to keep the whole vehicle aloft. Hitting a target almost a mile away from t…
Heart disease is the leading killer of U.S. women, but many women and their doctors don't recognize the danger. A survey of more than 1,000 women between 25 and 60 years of age found 45 percent were unaware that heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death for women in America. Most respondents said they had had a checkup in the past year, but only 40 percent said the doctor had assessed their heart health. "Eighty percent of heart disease is preventable, yet women's heart disease is underdiagnosed, under-researched and und…
Recycle that plastic water bottle, or else archaeologists will be digging it up thousands of years from now. What you probably haven't heard is that archaeologists are already digging up plastic water bottles that are thousands of years old. This not evidence of time travel. These bottles aren't clear, and they don't have labels. They're pitch black—made by indigenous tribes who coated large, woven bulbs with a tar-like substance called bitumen. Scientists have known about these bottles for years. But what they hadn…
Virgin Media has issued a warning to nearly 800,000 customers after it discovered that some of its routers are vulnerable to hacking, asking users to change passwords to remain protected. A research conducted by consumer group Which? revealed that Super Hub 2 routers offered by Virgin Media to its UK customers can be hacked to access connected devices, including CCTV cameras, that would basically give attackers the power of spying on users. The notification concerns customers still using default network and router passwords, with Virgin …
Two Russian Navy frigates and a submarine have fired six Kalibr cruise missiles on Islamic State targets in Syria, the Defense Ministry said. Militants who survived the attack were later killed in airstrikes. The missiles were launched from Russian Navy frigates, the Admiral Essen and the Admiral Grigorovich, as well as a submarine, the Krasnodar, from the eastern Mediterranean, the Defense Ministry said in a Friday statement. The submarine fired its missiles while submerged. The strikes targeted Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)…
A police officer was stoned to death Friday morning by an irate mob in Srinagar that believed he had shot at a group of people who caught him taking photographs outside Jamia Masjid. Police identified the officer as deputy superintendent of police Mohammed Ayub Pandith. Police sources told TOI Pandith was part of Kashmiri separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq's security grid deployed outside the Jamia Masjid on Shab-e-Qadr. He was on duty when the mob attacked him, a police spokesman said. Police sources said that Pandith was seen tak…
McDonald’s has long been the first job for legions of teenagers, but they soon could be getting competition from a new source: the fast food chain’s automated kiosks. McDonald’s share price hit a record $154 Thursday, and analysts credited the company’s gradual move toward self-serve kiosks, CNBC reported. Within the past year, McDonald’s eateries across the country have installed large kiosks where customers can place their own orders. Through the kiosks, you can construct orders and customize burgers or meals without needing a human cashi…
The Mexican government has deployed sophisticated software to spy on journalists, activists and anti-graft groups as they worked to highlight some of the country’s most notorious cases of crime, corruption and abuse of authority. Targets received SMS messages with links which appeared legitimate but led to false sites and the installation of malware on their mobile phones, according to an investigation by the press freedom organisation Article 19 and Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. The malware recorded keystrokes and compro…
The big #FireTrap in Portugal have killed 60 people At least 60 people have been killed in huge forest fires in central Portugal, many dying in their cars as they tried to flee the flames. Portugal’s prime minister, António Costa, described the blazes – which have injured dozens more people – as “the greatest tragedy we have seen in recent years in terms of forest fires”, and warned the death toll could rise. Three days of national mourning were declared. A fire in the municipality of Pedrogao Grande has left 25 pe…
Scientists have developed a simple three-in-one blood test they believe could transform treatment of advanced prostate cancer, helping to extend or save lives. The test, developed by researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London and the Royal Marsden NHS foundation trust, picks out men suitable for treatment with olaparib, part of a revolutionary class of drugs called “ PARP-inhibitors ”, which stops damaged cells from repairing themselves. The liquid biopsy, less invasive than a tissue biopsy, also detects early si…
Seven Navy sailors were missing and the captain and at least two others were injured after a US destroyer and a container ship collided off the coast of Japan before dawn Saturday, the US Navy and Japanese coast guard reported. The ship's captain, Cmdr. Bryce Benson, was airlifted to the US Naval Hospital in Yokosuka and was in stable condition, the US 7th Fleet said in a statement. Two other crew suffered cuts and bruises and were evacuated, it said. It was unclear how many others may have been hurt. The Fitzgerald had limited prop…
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday it is checking on information indicating that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was reportedly killed in a Russia-led airstrike in Syria.
Weeks ahead of presenting the revised Afghan strategy to the US President Donald Trump, the Defense Secretary James Mattis on Thursday called for a regional construct to bring lasting peace in this country. “ Our military posture is part of a larger regional context in South Asia, ” Mattis said before a Congressional subcommittee Thursday morning. “ The revised Afghanistan strategy with a new approach will be presented to the president for his approval in the coming weeks, ” Mattis said. A day earlier, Mattis told the Senate Appropriat…
The relatives of an Afghan father and two of his sons, who they say were killed and disfigured by heavy US fire in the country’s Nangarhar province, told RT they demand the American troops be punished. The US military says it’s unaware of civilian casualties. However, the accounts on the ground in Ghani Khel are different, with local police saying that three civilians – an owner of a small brick factory and two of his sons – were killed by the indiscriminate firing of the US troops. Forty-five-year-old Zir Gul Khan and his sons were guar…
The Pentagon will send almost 4,000 additional American forces to Afghanistan, a Trump administration official said Thursday, hoping to break a stalemate in a war that has now passed to a third U.S. commander in chief. The deployment will be the largest of American manpower under Donald Trump's young presidency. The decision by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis could be announced as early as next week, the official said. It follows Trump's move to give Mattis the authority to set troop levels and seeks to address asserti…
President Donald Trump responded on Thursday to a new report indicating he is under investigation for obstruction of justice. TOPIC RELATED : President Donald Trump twice branded James Comey as a “leaker” TOPICS about Mr President Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey. The FBI's special counsel, Robert Mueller, is looking into whether Trump tried to quell the bureau's investigation into his presidential campaign's ties to Russia, according to The Washington Post . Trump called the report &quo…
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