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A mother in the UK took home a $250,000 settlement after she says her employer denied giving her reduced hours to pick up her child from a daycare. Alice Thompson won £185,000, roughly $255,947, on Aug. 12 after she asked real estate agency Manors if she could finish her 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. shift an hour earlier to […]
According to the Metropolitan Police, a man in London was taken into police custody Wednesday “on suspicion of contamination of goods with intention of causing public harm or anxiety” after he allegedly used needles to inject food at several grocery stores. Metropolitan Police were responding to reports of an individual shouting at people in the street when they learned that he […]
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 woman managed to steal £4.2 million worth of diamonds, equivalent to around $5.7 million, by posing as a gemologist and replacing the valuable stones with regular garden pebbles. The elaborate heist took place at the Boodles showroom on New Bond Street in Mayfair, central London. According to The Guardian, Lulu Lakatos allegedly pretended to be examining seven diamonds […]
A UK woman was found guilty of murder last month after pouring a mixture of boiling water and sugar on her husband while he was asleep in their home. It was unclear at the time what motivated her to kill him, but WFLA reports 59-year-old Corinna Smith’s actions were provoked by her daughter’s accusation that her mother’s partner, Michael Baines, sexually abused her and […]
The House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is considering legislation that would ban the boiling of live lobsters, crab, and other crustaceans, The Hill reports. The current Animal Welfare Sentience Bill only takes into account the inhumane treatment of creatures with backbones, but the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has authorized a study […]
A UK woman was found guilty of murder after killing her husband while he was asleep in their home last year by pouring a concoction consisting of boiling water and sugar on him, BBC News reports. The Crown Prosecution Service said Corinna Smith, 59, had gotten into a dispute with her 81-year-old husband Michael Baines and another family […]
The coronavirus variant first identified in the United Kingdom is now the most dominate strain within the United States—just as health experts predicted. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced the news during Wednesday’s White House press briefing, stating the B.1.1.7 variant “is now the most common lineage circulating in the” U.S. […]
A massive iceberg broke away from Antarctica on Friday, CNN reports. A 490 square mile block of ice— bigger than New York City—broke free from the Brunt Ice Shelf near a British scientific outpost. According to a statement from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the ice was separated through a process called “calving.” Calving can be caused by crevasses […]
