Hundreds of asylum seekers could be housed in two military sites in Inverness and East Sussex as the government aims to end the use of hotels. Discussions are under way over the use of the sites to accommodate 900 men, as first reported in the Times. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has instructed Home Office…

60 years ago today, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri was completed. Clad in stainless steel and standing 630 feet high, it is the tallest monument in the Western Hemisphere. The arch sits on the west bank of the Mississippi River as a tribute to the great westward explorers, Lewis and Clark, and other…

AFP via Getty Images Efforts are continuing to find the bodies of the hostages that are still in Gaza Israel has received, through the Red Cross, a coffin that Hamas says contains the body of another deceased hostage held in Gaza. The Israeli prime minister’s office said the coffin would be taken from Gaza back…

Defense Delivered’s sprinklers in action – credit, retrieved from Defense Delivered A pair of Colorado innovators have designed an autonomous sprinkler system to hose down a home if it detects an approaching wildfire. With both men having experienced the threat of wildfires first hand, each said they were driven to try and do something about…

Tessa Wongin Kuala Lumpur AFP via Getty Images US President Donald Trump and Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim oversaw the signing ceremony on Sunday As US President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One in Kuala Lumpur, it was at the end of a busy 24 hours that, by the White House’s account, included a flurry of…

62 years ago today, one man in the right place, at the right time, did the right thing, saving the world from probably nuclear war. Vasily Arkhipov is known as the “man who saved the world,” during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis when he stood down the other two officers aboard the Soviet submarine B-59…

A woman in her 20s has been raped in what police have called a racially aggravated attack. West Midlands Police were called to the Park Hall area of Walsall at about 19:15 BST on Saturday, and said the woman had been attacked at a nearby property by a man she did not know. The attacker…

80-year-old Natalie Grabow becomes oldest female finisher in triathlon competition – Credit: Ironman With every step toward the finish line, Natalie Grabow was proving it’s never too late to get started. Earlier this month, the 80-year-old grandmother from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, became the oldest woman to ever finish the punishing Ironman World Championship triathlon…

Reuters Donald Trump arrives in Kuala Lumpur as he kicks off a tour of Asia. US President Donald Trump has arrived in Asia for a whirlwind week of diplomacy, which includes a much-anticipated meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Top of the agenda will be trade – an area where tensions between the world’s…

200 years ago today, the Erie Canal opened a passageway from New York to the Great Lakes. The canal was built to create a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Midwestern US and took 8 years to construct the 36 locks which overcame a total elevation differential of about 565 feet (172 m).…