A 15-meter-wide sinkhole has recently opened up in a city in Mississippi and swallowed at least 15 vehicles, police said, adding that what caused the sinkhole is still unknown and is being investigated. The sinkhole appeared in the parking lot of the new IHOP restaurant on Frontage Road in the city of Meridian. The customers at the restaurant told local WTOK-TV that they heard several booms that were... 

President Vladimir Putin has agreed with the Federal Security Service to halt all Russian flights to Egypt following an October 31 passenger plane crash in Sinai that killed all 224 people on board. “As long as we haven’t established the causes of the incident, I consider it appropriate to suspend the flights of Russian aircraft to Egypt. This primarily applies to the tourist flow,” FSB... 

The world’s richest man, Bill Gates, has said that the private sector is too selfish and inefficient to produce effective energy alternatives to fossil fuels. While announcing his plan to spend $2 billion of his own wealth on green energy during an interview with The Atlantic, the Microsoft founder called on fellow billionaires to help make the US fossil-free by 2050 with similar philanthropy. He... 

Jeb Bush’s numbers are in the single digits. Jeb Bush, who was the early frontrunner for the Republican nomination, has plummeted to the low single digits in a latest national poll. The Quinnipiac University survey released on Wednesday found Bush taking only 4 percent support, down from 10 percent in September. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Ben Carson continued to lead the crowded Republican field,... 

Socialism, Communism, Maoism, and National Socialism are all offshoots of Marxism. What once was taboo is now embraced by Democrats. For the first time ever, a majority of Democrat voters view Socialism favorably. Doug Ross reported: Over at Rasmussen, the pollsters have discovered that, for the first time in history, self-identified members of the Democrat Party now view socialism favorably. The... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin says global warming is being used as an economic weapon against his country. He characterized climate change as a “fraud” used to prevent Russia from tapping its vast oil and natural gas reserves. Greenpeace claims 85 percent of CO2 equivalent emissions in Russia come from its energy industry. According to a political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky, Putin believes... 

How scary are your jack-o’-lanterns? Scarier than you think, according to the Energy Department, which claims the holiday squash is responsible for unleashing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Most of the 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkins produced in the U.S. end up in the trash, says the Energy Department’s website, becoming part of the “more than 254 million tons of municipal solid waste... 

Toddlers in Australian childcare centres would inevitably come under the radar of spy organisations and counter-terrorism police, a gathering of hundreds of Muslim men, women and children has been told. More than 500 people flocked on Sunday to a forum in south-western Sydney addressing the “criminalisation” of the Islamic community in Australia. They were told Muslim children should not... 

The British government has abandoned a controversial plan to allow the police and security services full access to people’s Internet browsing history. The Home Office said it removed several contentious proposals from the surveillance bill, as it fears that the plan to snoop on Internet users would be rejected in parliament over civil liberties concerns. Back in May, British ministers claimed the... 

Saudi Arabia has been hit by unprecedented ice flash floods, as seasonal low pressure brings huge downpours to Iraq and Iran as well. The shocking video shows chunks of hail ice the size of large ball bearings for the first time ever in its history. Extreme weather conditions have been lashing the country since October 28, as the low pressure area concentrated over the northern part of the Persian... 

Heat-seeker ‘grenades’ have been developed by a group of British scientists to annihilate cancer tumors. In military, missiles equipped with infrared homing are the ones that dash towards targets giving off infrared radiation like the emissions of a jet engine. They are simply called heat-seeker missiles. In the realm of biology and medicine, cancer cells have been observed to grow and multiply... 

The elusive Omura’s whale has been documented for the first time ever by an international group of scientists, over a decade after the mysterious mammal was described as a new species. Previously, no living Omura’s whales had been observed in the wild, according to the study published in the Royal Society Open Space journal. Researchers confirmed that they are tracing the first-detected living... 

Donald Trump’s team made a big error by not trademarking his famous “Make America Great Again” slogan, and learned their lesson the hard way when a radio host went behind their back and did it himself. The trademark has been transferred over to the candidate, but it came at a hefty price: $100,000 — in donations to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The radio host, Bobby Estell,... 

The corpse of an unidentified figure with human-like hands has been found floating in a stream in Latin America. Locals on the continent believe the creature to have been the mythical vampire-like chupacabra. The body was discovered in the town of Carmen del Parana in southern Paraguay by the locals, who filmed it floating face down in the water. The lifeless creature appeared to be the size of an... 

An Arizona man’s Facebook post describing a routine traffic stop, in which he was let off with only a warning, has gone viral for challenging the narrative that police are waging a war on minorities. Steven Hildreth, a Tucson author and Army veteran, related his tale in a social media post that has since accumulated over 261 thousand likes and over 160 thousand shares. In the post Hildreth describes...