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An armed intruder has been arrested after he brought a weapon onto the Windsor Castle grounds on Christmas, per British authorities. NBC News reports that the 19 year-old is being charged with breaching or trespassing a protected site, as Thames Valley Police claim he carried an “offensive weapon” at 8:30 a.m. local time. Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, and other members of […]
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has been ordered by a court to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in a divorce settlement that’s among the largest in British history. Per an Associated Press report on the latest surrounding the divorce, a November ruling made public this week saw a High Court judge stating that […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets When the England national football team were defeated at penalties by Italy in the Euro 2020 finals, a dark […]
Researchers have found that local wildlife was impacted by public urination that contained traces of drugs at the 2019 Glastonbury Festival. BBC reports dangerously high levels of cocaine and MDMA were found in the Whitelake River, which runs adjacent to the festival’s Somerset, United Kingdom location. According to researchers, the finding could hinder conservation efforts of rare European eels that are located […]
Sarah Harding, member of the British band Girls Aloud, passed away on Sunday at the age of 39, Pitchfork reports. Her mother, Marie, shared the news on Harding’s Instagram account, writing that the singer died from breast cancer. Harding had revealed her diagnosis in August 2020 and that cancer had spread to other places in […]
Researchers at the University of Hull in England have determined that a plastic additive found in certain ocean pollution can elicit a response from hermit crabs that is comparable to sexual attraction. The study, which was conducted along the Yorkshire coast, shows that oleamide, a noted pheromone for particular ocean species, such as shrimp, causes the respiration rate of hermit […]
A United Kingdom man was sentenced to six years last month after reportedly going to three banks and passing notes to cashiers, demanding they hand over money. The only problem with his plan was that his notes were hard to understand. Alan Slattery, 67, was sentenced after his two-week robbery stint, according to Sussex Police. His […]
A shooting in the Keyham area of Plymouth, England on Thursday led to several casualties, according to authorities. NBC News reports that the southwest England shooting is being called a “critical incident” by Devon & Cornwall Police, who said they responded to “a serious firearms incident in Biddick Drive, in the Keyham area of Plymouth,” which took place […]
ABC News has learned that an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit on Monday against Prince Andrew, accusing the Duke of York of sexually abusing her on several occasions when she was under the age of 18. Virginia Roberts Giuffre is accusing Andrew of sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and seeks unspecified […]
Nearly 63 years after it was actually supposed to be back, a very, very overdue book has finally been returned to the Fenham Library in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. BBC News reports that the work, a first edition copy of Darrell Huff’s How to Lie with Statistics, was supposed to be back on November 25, 1958. Accompanying the severely behind return was […]
