Category: News

The Boeing 737-700 killed the brown bear but a cub nearby believed to be about 2 years old was uninjured, authorities said. An Alaska Airlines jetliner struck a brown bear while landing early Saturday evening, killing the animal and causing damage to the plane, officials said. None of the passengers or crew members on board […]

What happens when a world-famous independent bookshop finds itself in dire straights due to the global pandemic? It gets creative, of course. As with other struggling bookstores like New York City’s venerable Strand, landmark Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company experienced a devastating drop in revenue as the COVID-19 lockdown forced them to drastically change the […]

For those who like to gaze at the night sky, this week there will be a lively show as the Leonid meteor stream, as well as all seven planets, will be visible throughout the night—the lack of a strong moon helping immensely to see everything. Jupiter and Saturn will be visible in the early night, […]

Centered around the small archipelago of Tristan da Cunha in the Southern Atlantic, governments and ecological organizations have created the fourth-largest marine protected area on Earth, and the largest in the Atlantic Ocean. Spanning 265,347 square miles, Tristan da Cunha is almost three times as big as the island of Great Britain, and will protect […]

A man with cancer posted this powerful yet heartbreaking goodbye letter to a Reddit community. This is what Robert wrote: 41yo suboxone patient with lung cancer. I don’t mean to keep pestering this sub, but I thought I’d drop in to say good-bye. The cancer is in my heart and central cardiovascular area. It’s over. […]

Fire departments in Virginia lined up outside of the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk to show their support for a colleague’s 4-year-old son battling cancer. Firefighters from Norfolk Fire Rescue and Portsmouth Fire Rescue & Emergency Services raised their ladders to the fifth floor of CHKD and surprised four-year-old Nolan Turner who […]

A father claims his young child’s Christmas was almost ruined during a recent shopping trip, thanks to a bauble. The unnamed Australian man recounted the upsetting experience in a post on Facebook, warning other parents to be more careful. Writing in the group Christmas Mums and Dads Australia, the parent explained how his child had […]