A $1 million prize has been announced for anyone who can solve an allegedly "simple" chess puzzle. Researchers have thrown down the gauntlet to computer programmers to find a solution to a chess puzzle -- but it could take thousands of years to solve. Computer scientist Professor Ian Gent and...
A teacher has been fired after being caught on CCTV slapping a pupil 40 TIMES in the face - because he failed to answer the register. Disturbing footage shows Ritesh Gupta, eight, weeping as teacher Retica V John hands out the brutal punishment in front of his stunned classmates....
A self confessed Diana "superfan" splashed £3,000 travelling from Australia to lay flowers at her former home, Kensington Palace, on the 20th anniversary of her death. An emotional Trish Hoskin, 56, told how she desperately wanted to attend Princess Diana's funeral in 1997, but couldn't due to work commitments. The...
A female health spa boss accused of drunkenly groping a male client claimed he had been in a gay relationship with his masseur, a court heard today (thurs). Kerry Brocklebank, 43, said she may have interrupted an "inappropriate relationship" when she walked in on her alleged victim as he was...
A pair of drug dealers were caught with 11 kilograms of cannabis - and a SUBMACHINE GUN. Dajour Shakeem Da Costa, 21, and Jordan Oxley, 22, were arrested after police discovered their Skorpion submachine gun, a type of submachine gun once used by Soviet Union special forces. Cops seized the...
A couple loved the church they got married in so much they decided to buy it, renovate it and turn it into a stunning HOLIDAY HOME. Anne Monroe, 65, and her husband Bill, 71, married at St Luke's Church in the Kielder National Park in 1987 and have since had...
Twin girls have defied the odds and are due to start their first day of school after being born at 26 weeks weighing a tiny 1lb 14oz - as much as just half a bag of sugar. Little Grace and Olivia Oman both arrived three months premature in July 2013...
A binman pleaded guilty today (Thurs) to supplying drugs to a 15-year-old girl shortly before she died, a court heard. Jacob Khanlarian, 20, admitted five counts of supplying cannabis and MDMA to tragic teen Leah Kerry and some of her friends. Khanlarian, from Newton Abbot, Devon, supplied MDMA, a class...
A father has told of his heartbreak after his son inherited the same rare degenerative condition as him and is now struggling with mobility -- aged just five Andrew Frerichs, 51 and son Calum, 5, both live with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), a condition which affects the dexterity of their hands...