Month: March 2023

A gargantuan mass of seaweed that formed in the Atlantic Ocean is headed for the shores of Florida and other coastlines throughout the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump smelly and potentially dangerous heaps across beaches and put a big damper on tourist season. The seaweed, a variety called sargassum, has long formed large blooms in the Atlantic, and scientists have been tracking massive accumulations since 2011. But this year's sargassum mass could be the largest on record — spanning more than 5,000 miles from the coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico. The blob is currently pushing west and will pass through the Caribbean and up into the Gulf of Mexico during the summer, with the seaweed expected to become prevalent on beaches in Florida around July, according to Dr Brian L...

An escaped pet monkey has been shot after it ripped a woman's ear in half in the United States. Brittany Parker told a local reporter in Oklaholma she was sitting on her couch when the monkey launched at her front porch and tried to rip the door handle off so she called police. "I looked out the window and saw a monkey looking at me," Parker told Oklahola's local news service KOKH. READ MORE: Aussie city lurching towards 165-year-old weather record Police said they received a call about a monkey on someone's porch. (Dickson Police Department) "He crawled, jumped up my back, grabbed handfuls of hair and just ripped it out. "Then just ripped my ear almost completely off of my head." The monkey ran away after the attack. Parker said she can't work...

Australia was one of only 13 countries and territories with a "healthy" air quality last year, according to a new report, as air pollution surged to alarming levels. The report by IQAir, a company that tracks air quality worldwide, found that average annual air pollution in roughly 90 per cent of the countries and territories analysed exceeded the World Health Organisation's air quality guidelines, which are designed to help governments craft regulations to protect public health. IQAir analysed average air quality from 131 countries and territories, and found that just six countries — Australia, Estonia, Finland, Grenada, Iceland and New Zealand — and seven territories in the Pacific and Caribbean, including Guam and Puerto Rico, met the WHO air quality guidelines, which call f...

The City of Light is losing its lustre with tons of garbage piling up on Paris sidewalks as sanitation workers were on strike for a ninth day. The creeping squalor is the most visible sign of widespread anger over a bill to raise the French retirement age by two years. The stench of rotting food has begun escaping from some rubbish bags and overflowing bins. Neither the Left Bank palace housing the Senate nor, across town, a street steps from the Elysee Palace, where waste from the presidential residence is apparently being stocked, was spared by the strike. More than 7000 tonnrs of garbage had piled up by Tuesday. Some of that was seen being tossed into white trucks from a private company along the protest route ahead of a planned march Wednesday, the third in nine days. Polic...

Lindsay Lohan is expecting her first child. The "Mean Girls" star announced her pregnancy in an Instagram post on Tuesday, sharing an image of a baby onesie with "Coming soon..." written on it. The post was captioned "We are blessed and excited!" READ MORE: No Harvey Weinstein retrial on rape, sex assault charges Lindsay Lohan announces she's expecting her first child with husband Bader Shammas. (Instagram / @lindsaylohan) Lohan married financier Bader Shammas in 2022, People magazine reported. A message sent to Lohan's representative was not immediately returned. The 36-year-old actor, who was once a tabloid mainstay, has lived overseas for several years and kept a lower public profile. She recently returned to acting, starring in Netflix's "F...

When a Russian fighter jet collided with a large US surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday, it was a rare but serious incident that triggered a US diplomatic protest and raised concerns about the possibility Russia could recover sensitive technology. US and Russian officials had conflicting accounts of the collision between the MQ-9 Reaper drone and the Russian Su-27 fighter jet - each blaming the other. But a Pentagon spokesman raised the possibility that the Defence Department could eventually declassify and release video it has of the collision. READ MORE: US drone hit by Russian warplane over Black Sea A Russian fighter jet struck the propeller of a US Air Force MQ-9 drone surveillance drone (pictured) over the Black Sea on March 14, causing American for...