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‘Involuntarily celibate man, 23, accidentally amputated his own hand making a bomb to blow up hot cheerleaders’ Cole Carini arrived at a hospital on Tuesday with a missing hand, missing fingers on his other hand, and shrapnel wounds on his neck Carini was subsequently interviewed by police who obtained a warrant to search his home … Read more
Former IT technician, 57, who is accused of leaving ‘fake bomb’ on Downing Street claims rucksack containing eight bottles of Corona beer was ‘spiritual’ message to help fight Covid-19 Toby Champeney, 57, called police after abandoning the rucksack on 21 April IT technician said package will ‘explode’, heard Westminster Magistrates’ Court He told court eight … Read more
This is the shocking moment a protester charged with four counts of attempted murder appears to throw a Molotov cocktail at an occupied NYPD police cruiser. Samantha Shader, 27, is accused of chucking the petrol bomb at the police vehicle – which had four officers inside – in Brooklyn shortly after 10.30pm on Friday. Footage obtained … Read more
A family could have been ‘blown to pieces’ after an ‘old bottle’ they found in their back garden turned out to be a live Second World War bomb. Ed Cawdell, 43, and his family were clearing out the mysterious concrete structure in his back garden in Quorn, Leicestershire when they found the explosive. They had … Read more
Atomic bomb tests in the US during the Cold War changed rainfall patterns thousands of miles away in the Shetland Islands, a new study has found. Researchers from the University of Reading studied Sheltand rainfall data from between 1962 and 1964, and compared days when there was known to have been a nuclear bomb test … Read more
Homeowner dug up live WW2 bomb in her garden before scrubbing it with a Brillo pad thinking it was a Victoria relic before the army took it to the beach for a controlled explosion Lulu Cirillo was digging out the roots of an old plant in her garden in Weymouth She found the unexploded bomb … Read more
In 1936, when tensions were rising across Europe, the War Office acquired Monkton Farleigh, a disused quarry near Bath. It transformed the mine into the largest underground ammunition depot in the world, keeping thousands of weapons secure and hidden throughout the Second World War. The mine fell into disrepair, but in 2008 it was acquired … Read more
China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test explosions despite claiming to observe an international pact banning such blasts, the U.S. State Department said in a report on Wednesday that could further fray U.S.-Chinese relations. The finding may worsen ties already strained after President Donald Trump said the U.S. is investigating the possibility … Read more
Cold War atomic bomb testing from more than 50 years ago has helped scientists correctly determine the age of whale sharks for the first time. An international team of scientists measured levels of a carbon isotope in shark bone that permeated the oceans during atomic bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s. The presence of the … Read more
A member of Basque terror group ETA has been acquitted of a bomb attack on two Costa Blanca hotels, which left a British student among the injured. Ellie Carr, 20 at the time of the July 2003 blast, needed 20 stitches after it rocked the Hotel Bahia in Alicante next to the Spanish school where … Read more