What it's like having dysphagia — the disease that makes it feel like you're...
Toast is an unlikely agent of death. But there you are in your kitchen on a Saturday morning, inexplicably choking on a mouthful, trying not to panic. The day begins like any other for Samantha...
View ArticlePSNI in dark over drug that's killed 21, inquest is told
Police have been unable to identify how a sinister new drug that has killed 21 people is brought into Northern Ireland or who is supplying it, an inquest has heard. A top detective expressed...
View ArticleNASA Announces New Director of Ames Research Center (NASA - The National...
(Source: NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Monday the selection of Dr. Eugene L. Tu as the next director of the agency's Ames...
View ArticleAlberta man risks life using experimental drugs – then writes online reviews
Many of the 45 vials contain research chemicals, experimental drugs that produce euphoria. Swaths of them are not regulated by federal laws. Some are available for sale only on the dark web. An...
View ArticleKilled... by drug bought for price of a pint
The sparkling blue eyes and relaxed smile frozen in time by the camera are memories the family of Alice Devlin will always treasure. A precious photograph, taken four days before her death last summer,...
View ArticleNew Year's Honours list 2016 in full
Here is the full list of recipients in the New Year's Honours list 2016. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CIVIL Share Go To DBE (Dame) Professor Lesley Jean Fallowfield. Director, Sussex Health Outcomes...
View ArticleNew year honours 2015: the full list
The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas, plus military and police honours...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleNew Year's honours 2016: the full list
The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas...
View ArticleThe most unmissable culture of 2016
Tarantino goes bounty-hunting, Botticelli takes you to hell, Bowie goes dark, and Jericho fills that Downton-shaped hole … in our bumper guide to the best 150 arts events to look forward to this year...
View ArticleSmuggling star: Champ in drug bust
A world champion Kiwi bodybuilder has been caught smuggling about $100,000 worth of illegal party drugs into the country. Stephen Michael Raymond Orton, 24, also regarded as one of Christchurch's top...
View ArticleSwedish House Mafia concert death caused by overdose
A man who collapsed after attending a Swedish House Mafia concert in Phoenix Park died as a result of ecstasy and cocaine toxicity, a coroner has found. Shane Brophy (21) from The Swan, Crettyard in Co...
View ArticleBayonne man charged with trying to sell drugs in front of church: police
A 19-year-old city man has been accused of intending to distribute marijuana, ecstasy and methylone near a school and park, police said. BAYONNE -- A 19-year-old city man has been accused of intending...
View ArticlePilots remanded in custody 'for being under influence of alcohol' at Glasgow...
Two Canadian pilots arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol as they prepared to fly a passenger jet have...
View ArticleLife for man who killed man with heroin overdose (Greater Manchester Police)
(Source: Greater Manchester Police) A man who killed another man with a heroin overdose and then stole cash from him has been jailed for life. Christopher Sawyers (born 17/04/78) of no fixed abode, was...
View ArticleGlasgow bin lorry crash driver suspended by city council
Harry Clarke suspended ‘on precautionary basis’ ahead of disciplinary investigation into allegations made during fatal accident inquiry...
View ArticleMotorists warned of dangers of driving under the influence of drugs on...
(Source: Merseyside Police) Merseyside Police is warning motorists of the dangers of driving while under the influence of drugs on the 12 month anniversary of the introduction of a new national drug...
View ArticleVideo: Ex-bath salts addict says 'zombie attack' drug is 'evil'
An ex-baths salts addict talked to CNN Sunday about the drug used in the "zombie attack," that police believe is behind the Miami cannibal incident. In the telling video, the former drug abuser...
View ArticleMore than 130 people questioned in Glasgow shooting probe
15 May 2015 From the section Glasgow & West Scotland The shooting incident took place on Royston Road Police investigating a shooting and an unrelated attack in Glasgow have spoken to more than 130...
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