Larz, 21, from Beverly Hills, revealed on Twitter that he had caught coronavirus  He uploaded video of himself licking a toilet bowl last week as part of craze Follows trend set by TikTok user Ava Louise, 22, who licked toilet seat on flight It comes as the number infected by COVID-19 rose to more than 55,000 […]

Emergency Room Footage on CBS Matches Footage from Italian Hospital! This is footage from SKY News on March 22 from Italy. And here is footage from CBS News during their New York City report on March 25. CBS News painted a dire picture from New York City this week in their coronavirus coverage. On Wednesday morning CBS aired this footage from a New […]

In Venice, the often murky canals recently began to get clearer, with fish visible in the water below. Italy’s efforts to limit the coronavirus meant an absence of boat traffic on the city’s famous waterways. And the changes happened quickly. Countries that have been under stringent lockdowns to stop the spread of the coronavirus have experienced an […]

Former English Defence League leader, Tommy Robinson whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, 37, from Bedford has been arrested on ‘suspicion of common assault’ after allegedly ‘smacking’ a male holidaymaker square in the face in an altercation at a Center Parcs swimming pool. Robinson is well known for his far-right and anti-Islam views and activism in politics for many years – […]

Sometimes terrible things happen without any human malfeasance, and the novel Wuhan coronavirus may in fact be one of those things. It is entirely plausible the virus emerged from “wet markets” in the Hubei Province of China rather than as a fumbled (or worse, intentionally released) bioweapon cooked up by the Xi Jinping government.  We may never know, of […]

A bizarre fashion has appeared in China and many people and activists who support animal rights are appalled. It’s about soulless traders who keep living fish, turtles, small lizards, and other animals, captive inside some key chains. Those key-chains are made of plastic and contain only a little water and oxygen for the little animal […]

A search engine that uses its advertising revenue to fund the planting of millions of trees has seen a 1,000% surge in users during the Amazon rainforest fires. Ecosia said they had ‘mixed feelings’ about their growing popularity as ordinary people look at how they can help the stricken areas of Brazil. Scientists have recorded […]

Not a Call of Duty fan, then? Politicians rarely have anything good to say about video games, and former US vice president Joe Biden is particularly unimpressed by the industry, calling developers he met at the White House “creeps” and “arrogant” who make games that teach people how to kill. Biden, who is currently campaigning to […]

At an emergency meeting in Beijing held last Friday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke about the need to contain the coronavirus and set up a system to prevent similar epidemics in the future. A national system to control biosecurity risks must be put in place “to protect the people’s health,” Xi said, because lab safety is a […]

There’s first class and there’s business class. But on this flight, everyone flew coronavirus class. These exclusive photos show the surreal, polyethylene-wrapped aerial hell suffered by 329 American passengers of the Diamond Princess cruise ship as they were flown back to the US this week — after two weeks quarantined in their cabins off the […]

The 40’s and 50’s were rife with the misleading mania of printed advertisements. Back when newspapers served a broader purpose than lining an assortment of animals’ cages and making pinatas, they ran on the ads that filled them. Wholesome as the elderly love to portray their hayday as having been, the many ads they were […]

More than 50 million people in China are practically quarantined because a deadly new virus has suddenly erupted in Wuhan. The disease is said to have originated in a meat market in Wuhan and spread rapidly to other areas of China, then to Japan, Thailand, South Korea and the United States. Suspicious cases have also been […]

Are deepfakes a threat to democracy? The creator of a series of viral clips says he is raising awareness of their subversive potential You’ve heard of deepfakes – doctored videos fabricating apparently real footage of people – and their potential to disrupt democracy. But this might be the clip that makes you believe it. A YouTube […]

On Friday, September 13, a truck bound for the Georgia-based tabletop and video game company Trivium Studios took a turn too sharply, spilling 216,000 gaming dice onto Interstate 75 in Atlanta in what could be the biggest unintentional dice roll ever. According to Trivium Studios’ community manager, speaking to Kotaku about the incident, the truck […]

Last week, a Korean TV special called Meeting You aired which focused on a family’s loss of their 7-year-old daughter. And in an unsettling finale, the program attempted to reunite the girl with her mother using a virtual reality recreation, complete with audio. You can see it below. Not only was the girl fully replicated in 3D, […]