Brit shouts BOMB at Schiphol airport and everything shuts down
What happens when a Brit shouts BOMB at Schiphol airport in the Netherlands? Everything gets shut down, people are evacuated and the man is...
New coins representing Shakespeare Potter and the Battle of Hastings for 2016
New coins released in 2016 include those representing William Shakespeare, Beatrix Potter, the Battle of Hastings, the First World War, and the Great Fire of...
FTSE 100 one of the worst performing global markets in 2015, down 4.9%
The UK’s FTSE 100 index was one of the worst performing global markets in 2015 as plunging commodity prices triggered slumps in the value...
BBC websites suffered cyber attack and not technical issues
Nearly all BBC websites suffered a cyber attack on the last day of the year - the problem was not caused by technical issues, which the...
Google robot BigDog too noisy and Spot no good either says US military
The Google-owned Boston Dynamics' robot called BigDog, that the US military had intended to deploy, is too noisy. The smaller version - Spot -...
Comet Catalina giving you last chance to see it
Comet Catalina, known technically as nC/2013 US10, will be visible for just a few days in the Northern Hemisphere as it passes Earth by,...
800 year old mobile phone has everybody talking about aliens
If you came across an 800 year old mobile phone fossil you might wonder whether intelligent aliens visited us in the past, or somebody...
Fossils galore at Charmouth on Jurassic Coast after cliff fall
It’s fossils galore at Charmouth, a West Dorset village on the Jurassic Coast, after a major cliff fall, which keen collectors know means the...
Irish come from all over the place ancient genomes show
The Irish people come from all over the place, as far afield as the Middle East, Southern Europe and Eurasia, according to the ancient...
Oculus Rift VR headset will come with a free game when it launches
When the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset goes on sale next year it will come with a free adventure game called ‘Lucky’s Tale’.
The game...