A 76-year-old man has appeared in court facing child cruelty charges after children fell ill at a summer camp in Leicestershire. Jon Ruben was arrested as part of Leicestershire Police investigation after eight children and one adult at the camp at Stathern Lodge, Stathern, were taken to hospital on Monday. All have since been discharged.…

82 years ago today, in combat with the Japanese during the Solomon Islands Campaign in World War II, Patrol torpedo boat PT-109 was rammed by the Japanese Destroyer Amagiri. It’s commanding officer, a certain Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, undertook almost single-handedly to rescued his crew of 12 men, saving all but two in the process, while being…

Getty Images Donald Trump did not say where the two submarines were being deployed US President Donald Trump says he has ordered two nuclear submarines to “be positioned in the appropriate regions” in response to “highly provocative” comments by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Trump said he acted “just in case these foolish and inflammatory…

Maria Kovalets via Unsplash Last year, an Australian R&D team proposed a revolutionary new way to create and transport renewable hydrogen energy. The partnership from Curtin University and Velox Energy Materials devised a circular hydrogen industry consisting of hydrogen generation, the capacity to turn it into a powdered storage form, and the infrastructure to refill…

Dan Hunt BBC News, Leicester NEMM Eight children from the camp at Stathern Lodge were taken to hospital Police have been given more time to question a man arrested on suspicion of administering poison at a children’s summer camp in Leicestershire. Eight children from Stathern Lodge, Canal Lane, and an adult were taken to hospital…

60 years ago today, Frank Herbert’s epic science-fiction novel Dune was published. Set in the distant future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which various noble houses control planetary fiefdoms, it tells the story of young Paul Atreides, whose family accepts the stewardship of the planet Arrakis. While the planet is an inhospitable and sparsely populated…

Photo courtesy the Complex of Landscape Parks of the Wielkopolska Voivodeship. A pair of ancient tombs have been found in Poland that point to a distinctive Stone Age culture famous for earthen mounds. Discovered through remote sensing technology during routine fieldwork in the Dezydery Chłapowski Landscape Park, they seem similar to a famous group of…

Grace Wood BBC News, Yorkshire Handout Yusuf Nazir died eight days after he was sent home from hospital with antibiotics A new report into the death of a five-year-old boy who died days after being sent home from a hospital emergency department has found the NHS failed to listen to a “mother’s instinct”. Yusuf Nazir…

Happy 60th Birthday to J.K. Rowling, the author and humanitarian who, before writing the first of seven books in the Harry Potter series, was a single mom supported by welfare—but she transformed herself into the world’s first female billionaire novelist. Her artful wizarding fantasies became the best-selling book series in history, translated into 73 languages,…