World's longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Switzerland

The world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge opened in Switzerland on Sunday, a ribbon-thin span nearly a third of a mile long that challenges hikers to proceed in places at nearly 28 stories above ground. Officials in the south of Switzerland unveiled the bridge after just 10 weeks of construction. It measures 1,620 feet long and rises as high as 278 feet above the Grabengufer ravine. The span is also impossibly...

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Lightning DOES strike twice! Quebec man, 69, rakes in a cool $1.22million in his SECOND huge lottery win in nine years

Those who say lightning never strikes twice clearly have never met Jules Parent. The 69-year-old retiree from Quebec, Canada, has won the lottery for the second time in nine years. Parent, who posed with a check for $1,222,06 CAD after he won $1million in 2008, asked: 'I don’t know who did this. Was I born under a good star?'  Parent, who won his latest jackpot from an online play worth $3.20, had about a one in 23 million...

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President’s daughter speaks out after backlash over her breastfeeding photo

The Kyrgyz president’s youngest daughter has spoken out about the furore sparked by a photo of her breastfeeding her child. Aliya Shagieva posted a photo of herself feeding her baby on social media back in April, with the caption: ‘I will feed my child whenever and wherever he needs to be fed.’ The backlash to the image was so huge, with people accusing her of acting immorally, that she was forced to take it down. Her parents – the President...

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Angelina Jolie denies 'cruel' Cambodia child auditions

Angelina Jolie has fiercely denied playing tricks on Cambodian children while casting for a film. The actress and UN special envoy recruited local children to star in her film about Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, First They Killed My Father. She spoke to Vanity Fair about the film and explained how they used a casting game which involved giving money to poor children then taking it away. The interview caused outrage, with many accusing Jolie...

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Apple imagines AR glasses that fulfill the dream of Google Glass

Tim Cook has not-so-subtly hinted that Apple is working on some sort of augmented reality product. And while ARKit may be the start, a patent application published today hints at what Apple could be picturing down the road. The application describes how a device could overlay information on the real world. Apple is imagining some pretty broad possibilities here. It could be as simple as putting an indicator on a point...

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Apple to discontinue iPod nano and shuffle

Apple has announced plans to kill off the iPod nano and shuffle. They were the company's last two music players without the ability to run streaming service Apple Music and hadn't been upgraded for ages. The move is part what's been described as a "simplification" of the iPod range to leave just the Touch model. That product, which is like a slimmed down iPhone but without the ability to be used as a phone, has been updated. Nanos...

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Cruise ship passenger 'killed wife because she laughed at him'

A Utah man killed his wife aboard an Alaska cruise and told an acquaintance who later walked into the couple's blood-splattered room that he did it because she laughed at him, the FBI said in documents released on Thursday. Kenneth Manzanares was charged with murder after he was found with blood on his hands and clothes and blood spread throughout the cabin on the Princess Cruises ship on Tuesday night, according to a criminal...

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Stephen King's child-killing clown returns in latest It trailer

Pennywise is back to scare a new generation in the latest take on the bestselling novel, arriving in a year filled with King adaptations Stephen King’s evil clown Pennywise returns in the full trailer for this year’s big screen adaptation of It. The bestselling novel was previously turned into a small screen mini-series in 1990, but the latest version will be spread over two theatrical releases, the first of which lands in September. Director...

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Indian court rejects abortion for 10-year-old rape victim

India's Supreme Court has refused to allow an abortion for a 10-year-old girl allegedly raped by her uncle on the grounds that she is too far into her pregnancy. A doctors' panel told the court that, at 32 weeks, termination of the pregnancy would be "too risky". Her pregnancy was discovered two weeks ago when she complained of stomach ache and her parents took her to hospital. A lower court had earlier turned down her plea on similar grounds. Without...

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Donald Trump Drew a Picture of the New York City Skyline and You Can Buy It

A sketch that President Donald Trump drew of the New York City skyline will be up for auction starting Thursday.  The sketch, which is listed by Nate D. Sanders Auctions, was drawn by Trump in 2005 for an auction benefitting a global literacy initiative, according to Mashable. Charlize Theron, Jennifer Garner, and John McCain also contributed work to the auction 12 years ago.  The Trump Tower can be seen at the the center of the...

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Alice Cooper's 'forgotten' Warhol found after four decades in storage

Alice Cooper can be forgiven for forgetting some of the finer details of the early 1970s. After all, the rock star was touring the world and riding high off the success of tracks like "School's Out." But amid the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, Cooper forgot something that few others would -- that he owned an Andy Warhol painting. And now he has remembered where he kept it. The recently uncovered silkscreen image, titled "Little Electric...

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Electric Mini to be built in Oxford

A fully electric version of the Mini will be built at the Cowley plant near Oxford, BMW has confirmed. BMW said that the car, which will be a variant of its existing three-door model, would go into production in 2019. The carmaker said Oxford would be the main "production location" for the Mini three-door model. However, the electric motor will be built in Germany before being shipped to Cowley for assembly. A BMW spokesman said the company...

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007 will be back in 2019

The next installment in the James Bond franchise has set a release date of Nov. 8, 2019. This will be the 25th installment in the long-running series.  Daniel Craig, who has held a license to kill since first playing Bond in 2006's Casino Royale, has not been announced as being back as the British Secret Service agent, with EON Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer saying casting will be announced at a later date. A director...

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