A delicacy synonymous with Japanese cuisine, fugu (pufferfish) is highly-prized, but potentially more deadly than cyanide. Each fish has enough tetrodotoxin (one of the world’s most powerful neutrotoxins) to kill 30 adults, so it’s hardly surprising it’s banned across the EU. In Japan, only rigorously trained chefs are licensed to ...
Football legend John McGovern is flogging his treasured Championship winning medals at auction - to help pay for his CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. The former midfielder - who was known as Brian Clough's go-to player - is most famous for captaining the Nottingham Forest side that twice won the European Cup. But ...
The UK will concede that there will be no "regulatory divergence" on the island of Ireland, according to a draft text seen by RTE News. Late last week Ireland’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister said he had been in talks with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party on the subject, saying ...
There has been a stark warning from Britain’s largest business group about the future of the UK economy. The CBI has said that the UK will face a sluggish period of growth at the same time the global economy will enter a strong and positive economic outlook. The Eurozone will ...
A company has made a virtually indestructible glove that can survive fire, crushing and CHAINSAWS. Schmitz Mittz have built the tough hand protection to repel extreme heat, pressure and cutting from sharp objects and jagged metal - and electric power saws. Invented by Randy Schmitz, a former Canadian firefighter in ...
Hundreds of thousands more children and pensioners have been plunged into poverty over the last four years. A devastating report has today revealed some 400,000 more youngsters and 300,000 more elderly people are now living in poverty compared to 2012/13. The results track the period in which the Conservative's austerity ...
The National Rifle Association is expected to score its first big legislative win of the year just two months after the deadliest mass shooting in US history. The new gun bill will force states with strict gun laws to recognise firearms permits from states with lower thresholds - even if they're ...
Director David Gordon Green doesn’t shy away from the stark realities that come with being a victim of a terrorist attack in this gritty true-life dramatisation of one man’s journey to recovery following the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Rather than opt for a traditionally uplifting portrayal of a resilient man ...
A horrified pest control expert claims he has killed Britain's biggest ever rat - which is a whopping 20-inches long. Daren George, 48, snared the 'beast it in the garden of a suburban three-bed semi - as the UK is swamped by millions of the disease-ridden rodents. The three-year veteran ...