One-eyed, one-legged Taliban founder warns regime will bring back amputation for thieves

The one-eyed, one-legged founder of the Taliban warned today the regime will bring back executions and amputations for thieves – though they may not be held in public.  Mullah Nooruddin Turabi dismissed outrage over the Taliban’s executions in the past, which sometimes took place in front of crowds at a stadium, and warned the world … Read more

Struggling fashion chain French Connection receives £29million takeover bid

Struggling fashion chain French Connection receives £29million takeover bid French Connection is in takeover talks after receiving an approach worth £29m Revealed it received a potential cash offer worth 30p a share from a consortium It marks a 30% hike on the stock’s closing share price of 23.1p on Wednesday By Clare Mccarthy For Mailonline … Read more

$4 million satellite the size of a CHEERIOS box is going into space to search for alien planets

This gives new meaning to the phrase, good things come in small packages. A $4 million satellite likened to a ‘family-sized box of Cheerios’ is headed into space later this month to look at the physics of distant exoplanets known as ‘hot Jupiters,’ including the hottest planet ever found. Known as Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment … Read more

Biden wanted his first call to a foreign leader to be to Angela Merkel, but she blew him off

Biden wanted his first call to a foreign leader to be to Angela Merkel, but she blew him off and he phoned Boris Johnson instead President Biden wanted his first call to a foreign leader to go to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, but she turned him down to spend the weekend away Biden’s second option was … Read more

Footprints in New Mexico made 23,000 years ago are earliest evidence of human activity in New World

Scientists are describing a set of 23,000-year-old human footprints discovered in New Mexico as the earliest evidence of human activity in the Americas, 10,000 years earlier than previously believed. British and American archaeologists uncovered the prints in soft mud adjoining Alkali Flat, a dry lakebed at White Sands National Park in southern New Mexico. Using … Read more