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Specialist divers searching a river for an English woman who vanished while walking her dog have ended their mission with no answers, saying she was "categorically not" in the area of the river police believe she fell in. Nicola Bulley, 45, was last seen walking her dog by the Wyre River in St Michael's on Wyre, in Lancashire, on January 27. Her phone, which was connected to a work call, and her dog leash, were found on a steep bank overlooking the river. READ MORE: Legendary pop song composer Burt Bacharach dies at 94 Police have said they believe Bulley fell into the river in unsuspicious circumstances. But divers searching the area of the Wyre it was believed Bulley fell into have found no trace of her, the BBC has reported. "We've done very thoroug...

Melbourne mum and hairdresser Gillian Jenkins was in the salon cutting a client's hair when she suddenly felt her hand go numb. "I walked over to the basin and I was thinking, 'This isn't normal'," the 34-year-old said. "Then my arm went numb, and my leg and my face. I started freaking out." READ MORE: Woman loses $37k to catfish posing as Aussie actor But, almost as quickly as it came, the strange episode passed. Within minutes, Jenkins said she felt fine. On the advice of a colleague, Jenkins saw a GP at a local medical centre, who did a blood test that didn't show up anything out of the ordinary. But, a week and a half later on Boxing Day, almost exactly the same thing happened again. "I was out having lunch with a girlfriend and I went c...

The appearance of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's daughter alongside her father during a military parade this week has fuelled speculation the girl is being groomed as his eventual successor. The girl – believed to be Kim's second child, Ju-ae, who is aged about nine – on Wednesday watched with Kim as massive intercontinental ballistic missiles were paraded through Pyongyang's Kim Il-sung square in a military parade. Earlier on Tuesday, she joined the North Korean leader and his wife, Ri Sol-ju, during a visit to a military barracks and subsequent banquet to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army, state media reported. READ MORE: North Korean troops encouraged by Kim Jong-un and his daughter North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, second from...

In a ray of hope for rescue workers amid an increasingly grim recovery mission, a two-year-old boy has been pulled alive from the rubble in Turkey 79 hours after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Mert Tatar was alert and smiling as he emerged from a hole in the rubble of a collapsed building in Antakya, prompting cheers from the surrounding rescue team, who quickly wrapped him in a blanket. READ MORE: Earthquake death toll surges as survivors struggle to stay warm, fed Mert Tatar smiles as he emerges from a hole in the rubble. (Today) Mert Tatar embraces his rescuers and elated relatives after 79 hours under the rubble of a collapsed building in freezing temperatures in the Turkish city of Antakya following a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake. (Today) It is on...

The president of SpaceX, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has revealed the company is moving to prevent Ukrainian forces from using the critical Starlink satellite technology with Ukrainian drones that are a key component of their fight against Russia. "There are things that we can do to limit their ability to do that," Gwynne Shotwell said, referencing reports on Starlink and drone use. "There are things that we can do, and have done." READ MORE: Zelenskyy calls Russia 'most anti-European force' in address to EU Starlink was never meant to be used militarily in the way that it has, Shotwell argued, saying the company didn't foresee how profoundly - and creatively - Ukrainian forces would rely on the technology. "It was never intended to be weaponised," Sh...

It sounds like a science fiction plot from the 1950s: In the far future year of 2023, one researcher has proposed we blast dust off the moon to shield us from the sun. But no - scientists from the University of Utah have calculated that it would be theoretically possible to shoot moon dust into space to block the sun's rays before they reach Earth, in an attempt to stop the planet from warming. The researchers say dust grains in the right place in space could shade the Earth for up to a week, and moon dust takes less energy to launch than dust from Earth. Using moon dust also avoids any long-term impacts on Earth or its atmosphere. And given the dust clouds would disperse relatively quickly, it would allow for some level of control over the shading between seasons...