Watch: How the Catholic school shooting unfolded in Minneapolis Two children have been killed and 17 people injured after a shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. The attack happened after 08:00 local time (14:00 BST) at Annunciation Church, where children had been attending a worship service during their first week of school. The FBI…

A polish drone used for mosquito control in Wroclaw – credit, UMW, released Pixabay Reprinted with permission from World at Large In Ghana, Kenya, Japan, Poland and probably other countries as well, it’s now the mosquitos who fear the sound of buzzing—from drones built to detect and destroy them. Economies of scale and widespread adoption…

The moment before a teenage girl stabs teachers at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman A teenage girl who stabbed two teachers and a pupil last year had previously been found with a knife, BB gun and war memorabilia in her school bag, a review has found. The girl, who cannot be named due to her age, was…

credit – Evelina Sabaliauskaite and Lukas Gruseckas, retrieved from Facebook In Lithuania, Welsh Corgi owners from around Europe came to celebrate the breed “and life in general” at the annual Corgi Race. Held in Vilnius for the fifth time, the Corgi Race is about as joyful an event as one could hope to see. The…

Paul Kirby Europe digital editor Russian ministry of defence Russia’s defence ministry released an image claiming to show Russian troops inside the village of Zaporizke, but Ukraine says it is still in control there Ukrainian forces have acknowledged that Russia’s military has crossed into the eastern industrial region of Dnipropetrovsk and is trying to establish…

– the location of the woman’s iPad, transmitted after the device was powered on From the popular social media platform Reddit comes the incredible story of a young woman recovering her iPad lost two years before while traveling in the US. It started on a forum, called a sub-Reddit on the site, for Columbus Ohio—a…

Reform UK says it would offer payments to countries like Afghanistan as part of a plan to enable hundreds of thousands of migrant deportations if it won power. Party leader Nigel Farage set out a five-year plan to detain and deport all migrants who arrive in the UK without permission and suggested 600,000 people could…

This image of the teenager was used to identify him and confirm he was uninjured – credit, policja.gov.pl Police in the Polish town of Rybnik are calling this teenager a hero after he reacted when no one else did to a random act of violence and allowed the victim to escape. Located in the Silesia…

US aviation giant Boeing and Korean Air announced a deal worth about $36bn (£24bn) on Monday for 103 planes as President Donald Trump presses trading partners to do more business with American firms. The deal includes 787, 777 and 737 passenger jets, according to a joint statement from the two companies. The new jets will…

An islet cell (pink) in the midst of pancreas tissue (magenta) – credit CC 3.0. Polarlys A patient with type 1 diabetes has become the first in the world to produce his own insulin via transplanted cells edited with CRISPR. The edits halted his own immune system from attacking the cells, leading to production of…