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Raul Flores pulled 511kg off the platform at Birmingham's Utilita Arena and no human has ever lifted more.The Mexican st...
09/10/2026

Raul Flores pulled 511kg off the platform at Birmingham's Utilita Arena and no human has ever lifted more.

The Mexican strongman took the deadlift world record away from Hafthor Bjornsson, whose 510kg mark had stood as the benchmark.

"When you want to be the best, you do whatever it takes." - Hafthor Julius Bjornsson

Bjornsson stands 6ft 9in and weighs 32½st, and he built his 510kg record while reigning as Strongman Open Champion and appearing in Game of Thrones.

Flores's 511kg lift happened at the Giants Live event in Birmingham, one kilogram beyond the previous global ceiling.

The lift lands inside a strongman scene wrestling openly with performance-enhancing drugs.

Mitchell Hooper, the reigning World's Strongest Man champion, has spoken candidly about his own PED use.

"The cost is that I'll die younger than I would without it, for sure. I'm playing with a bit of fire." - Mitchell Hooper

Adam Bishop, a 37-year-old English strongman with a 470kg deadlift personal best, has won Britain's Strongest Man twice and reached multiple World's Strongest Man finals.

"We're all fans of seeing big lifts. I'll be cheering on the other guys, even if it means that they'll beat me in an event, because I want to see massive, massive lifts, and see impossible things done." - Adam Bishop

"It is always a super supportive space to be in." - Adam Bishop

Bishop traces the sport back to a simpler test.

"It was things like who could pick up the heaviest rock, and we still have that kind of ethos today." - Adam Bishop

Lee Brockhouse, a 48-year-old amateur competitor with a 455kg deadlift best, watched Flores's number land against his own frame of reference.

"They aren't just breaking records, they are breaking boundaries of what the human body can do." - Lee Brockhouse

Flores's 511kg now sits as the figure every strongman in the sport has to chase next.

A Boeing 767-33A cargo plane ran 1,300 feet past the end of Runway 30 at Miami International Airport and slammed into gr...
09/10/2026

A Boeing 767-33A cargo plane ran 1,300 feet past the end of Runway 30 at Miami International Airport and slammed into ground vehicles.

Five people died in the crash on September 6, 2026, at roughly 1:53 p.m. local time.

"No indication in the recorded data that speed brakes or thrust reversers were deployed," - Chihoon Shin.

Shin, an NTSB investigator, presented that flight data finding to reporters covering the crash.

Both pilots aboard 21 Air LLC Flight 7598 survived the overrun.

The captain, 55, had logged 7,145 flight hours and earned his Boeing 767 rating in May 2026.

The first officer, 37, had 2,655 flight hours and received his 767 rating in April 2025.

Five civilians in two vehicles on the ground died when the plane struck them after leaving the runway.

NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy led press briefings on September 7 and 8 to detail the early findings.

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz announced the identifications of the victims killed in the vehicles.

"Before we knew it, we saw that massive plane engulfed in flames and the road ahead destroyed," - Olvin Henriquez.

Henriquez witnessed the crash firsthand near the airport.

"We were all in shock witnessing such a dramatic event," - Olvin Henriquez.

"The mere thought that, just moments earlier, my entire family could have been dragged along by the plane - as other vehicles and people unfortunately were - is terrifying," - Olvin Henriquez.

Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel addressed the tragedy in a statement tied to Amazon Air operations.

"Our deepest sympathies remain with the families, loved ones, and all those affected by this devastating tragedy," - Kelly Nantel.

Investigators are now focused on why the aircraft's speed brakes and thrust reversers showed no sign of deployment during the overrun.

The NTSB has not yet released a full timeline explaining what happened between touchdown and the moment the plane left the runway.

An elderly woman in Massachusetts had a mass in her stomach for a month, and 1.5 liters of Diet Coke a day dissolved it ...
09/10/2026

An elderly woman in Massachusetts had a mass in her stomach for a month, and 1.5 liters of Diet Coke a day dissolved it within 48 hours.

Doctors published the case in the New England Journal of Medicine.

"Bezoars formed from food material may be initially managed with oral administration of cola in patients in a clinically stable condition." - from the case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine

The patient had lost 40 pounds over the previous year and had been using semaglutide, a GLP-1 agonist drug.

Semaglutide slows gastric emptying, and undigested food built up in her stomach until it formed a solid mass called a bezoar.

She suffered burning abdominal pain for about a month and tried two over-the-counter acid reflux medications before seeking further care.

Neither medication worked.

An endoscopy confirmed the mass, a diagnosis that shows up in fewer than 0.5% of all endoscopies performed.

Doctors put her on cola therapy, a treatment with an established but poorly understood track record.

The standard protocol calls for 3 liters of cola within a 12-hour window, given orally or through a nasogastric tube, but her medical team prescribed a reduced dose of 1.5 liters per day.

By the second day of treatment, the bezoar had dissolved.

Anthony Hall lost his sight two years ago.He got behind the wheel anyway, drove 150 miles up the M6, and steered by foll...
09/10/2026

Anthony Hall lost his sight two years ago.

He got behind the wheel anyway, drove 150 miles up the M6, and steered by following a truck's headlights.

'I wanted to get as far away from home life,' Hall told police, citing 'ongoing disagreements' at home.

The 50-year-old, registered blind and never holder of a driver's licence, drank four bottles of wine before taking his wife's car without her knowledge on June 29, 2026.

He drove north from Huddersfield toward Cumbria, weaving across lanes and clipping the hard shoulder near Kirkland before officers pulled him over.

Hall retained some light perception but no useful vision for driving, and he admitted to police he was 'aware of the dangers he posed on the road.'

He had followed the taillights of an HGV for guidance until he overtook it and lost his only reference point on the motorway.

Police stopped him shortly after.

Hall pleaded guilty to five counts connected to the incident at Kirklees Magistrates' Court.

His defence solicitor pointed to psychological distress and a breakdown behind the decision to drive.

A judge handed him a 36-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, on September 8, 2026.

The sentence includes 10 rehabilitation activity days, 90 days of electronic alcohol monitoring, and a 12-month driving ban.

Hall never held a licence before the incident and now faces a year without the legal right to apply for one.

The alcohol tag will track his sobriety for three months starting from sentencing.

A 50-episode Chinese short drama collapsed after the platform rejected it for containing more than sixty kissing scenes....
09/09/2026

A 50-episode Chinese short drama collapsed after the platform rejected it for containing more than sixty kissing scenes.

The lead actor, 23-year-old Zhong Yufei, says the woman who financed the entire production also cast herself as his co-star and harassed him repeatedly during filming.

"I've seen more short dramas than you've ever made," the investor reportedly said when crew members questioned the volume of kissing scenes in the script.

Zhong had only supporting roles before this project, and people close to the production treated the lead part as his breakthrough.

Producer Meng Xing came forward to corroborate the account, confirming details about how the production was run.

The investor held three roles at once: sole financier, lead actress, and final authority over the script.

That combination meant no one on set could object to the number of kissing scenes without risking the production itself.

Objections from crew members reportedly went nowhere, and the scenes stayed in the script.

Filming continued, and Zhong alleges the harassment happened repeatedly throughout the shoot.

Once the series wrapped, the platform rejected it outright, citing rules against excessive explicit content.

A show built entirely around one person's money and one person's script never reached an audience.

Meng Xing's disclosure pushed the story onto social media, where the debate over the investor's control has spread.

Zhong Yufei's account and Meng Xing's corroboration now sit at the center of that debate, with no response yet from the investor.

Two thieves broke a window at the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer before dawn and walked out with four paintings worth a...
09/09/2026

Two thieves broke a window at the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer before dawn and walked out with four paintings worth an estimated 9 million euros.

"This morning, two individuals broke into the Renoir Museum and stole four works of art," - Bryan Masson, Mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer.

The museum alarm went off at 5:48am.

"At 5.53am, just five minutes later, our municipal police were on the scene," - Bryan Masson.

Municipal police arrived within five minutes, but the thieves had already fled the coastal French town.

"Spotted thanks to the town's video surveillance cameras, the two individuals fled, abandoning one of the stolen paintings as they ran," - Bryan Masson.

Masson's statement referenced one abandoned painting, though his office says two of the four targeted works were left behind overall.

The Renoir Museum has stood in Cagnes-sur-Mer since 1960, decades after the painter's death in 1919.

Surveillance footage shows two individuals entering and exiting the building, but neither has been identified publicly.

A police organized crime squad has taken over the investigation.

The theft lands eleven months after thieves stole 88 million euros in art from the Louvre in October 2025.

Two high-value heists in under a year now put French museum security under direct scrutiny.

Investigators have not released the identities of the stolen Renoir works or their individual values.

The organized crime squad's next update will show whether the five-minute police response led to any arrests.

A dried crocodile head, wrapped in ordinary paper and packed inside a suitcase, could cost one Italian man a year of his...
09/09/2026

A dried crocodile head, wrapped in ordinary paper and packed inside a suitcase, could cost one Italian man a year of his freedom.

Financial police at Turin's Caselle airport found the item on September 8, when the man arrived on a flight from Miami via Istanbul.

"Specifically, the reptile's head had been dried and wrapped in ordinary wrapping paper, thus evading security in the country of departure." - Financial police statement

Customs officials worked with the financial police squad in Turin to increase checks on protected species trade before the discovery.

The passenger, whose name has not been released, now faces investigation for smuggling an endangered species without the required certification.

Crocodiles have been protected under the Washington Convention since 1973, and Italy has been identified as a hub for illegal exotic animal trade tied to organized crime.

Dried crocodile heads are sold openly as souvenirs in Florida shops, and many tourists carry them home without knowing the legal risk.

If convicted, the man faces a fine between €20,000 and €200,000.

He also faces a possible prison sentence ranging from six months to one year.

The criminal investigation is ongoing, and no court date has been set.

The Metropolitan Opera cast a snake in its new production of Mozart's Così fan tutte, set in 1950s Coney Island."I need ...
09/09/2026

The Metropolitan Opera cast a snake in its new production of Mozart's Così fan tutte, set in 1950s Coney Island.

"I need to know that the animal is comfortable with people and with what we are doing," said Zoe Ziegfeld, the carnival performer-turned-opera actor who ran the evaluations.

Ziegfeld left the carnival circuit for a performing career at the Met.

The snakes came from Nancy Novograd's company, All Tame Animals, which supplies creatures for stage and screen work.

Mozart wrote the original opera in 1790, and the Met's new staging updates it to a boardwalk carnival setting nearly two centuries later.

Auditions judged how each snake handled close contact with performers under stage conditions.

Ziegfeld tested comfort level, not tricks, since a jumpy snake near singers creates real risk during a live performance.

The production places the ancient opera inside a mid-century American amusement park, complete with sideshow-style staging choices.

Rehearsals now move forward with the chosen snake integrated into the Coney Island scenes.

No date for opening night appears in the available details, but casting is complete and the snake has the part.

A yellow-peach sun-glow boa constrictor named Princess just landed a role at the Metropolitan Opera, beating at least th...
09/08/2026

A yellow-peach sun-glow boa constrictor named Princess just landed a role at the Metropolitan Opera, beating at least three other snake candidates including one named Nala.

"I need to know that the animal is comfortable with people and with what we are doing," - Zoe Ziegfeld.

Ziegfeld handles snakes for the Met's new production of Mozart's 'Così fan tutte,' a 1790 opera reimagined as a 1950s Coney Island carnival.

She has performed with snakes at Coney Island for a couple of seasons, doing up to eight shows a day.

This is her third time casting a snake for a stage role.

Selecting Princess required a formal audition process run alongside Nancy Novograd, who owns the animal talent company All Tame Animals.

"Animals have to perform as do human talent," - Nancy Novograd.

"Sometimes they have a set type of behaviors that they have to demonstrate. And sometimes they just have to get along with the talent. So in this case, they have to be the right color, size, and Zoe has to like them," - Nancy Novograd.

Princess made the cut on color, size, and chemistry with Ziegfeld, according to Novograd's criteria.

Ziegfeld confirmed the decision by email: "We will be moving forward with Princess (the big sun-glow boa constrictor who is yellow-peach) in rehearsals on a trial basis!"

"She is a wonderful snake, and the trial is not about her, but rather about me and my strength," - Zoe Ziegfeld.

Ziegfeld sees more overlap between opera audiences and carnival crowds than most would expect.

"The music's different. The money is different. It's a pleasure to entertain," - Zoe Ziegfeld.

"And with snakes, it's a delight to know that there are people watching who are in awe and people who are terrified. And those things happen at the Met and at Coney - so I would say they are more alike than different, to be honest," - Zoe Ziegfeld.

Princess now moves into rehearsals on a trial basis, with Ziegfeld's own stamina, not the snake's temperament, listed as the remaining variable to prove out.

In 100 trillion years, the last star in the universe will go out, and existence itself will go dark."The last star will ...
09/08/2026

In 100 trillion years, the last star in the universe will go out, and existence itself will go dark.

"The last star will go out, and the universe will finally go dark," said Geraint Lewis, astrophysicist at the University of Sydney, speaking at New Scientist Live.

Lewis mapped out a countdown that starts far sooner than that final blackout, beginning with our own solar system.

"In about five billion years, something spectacular is going to happen," he said.

Three billion years from now, Andromeda will slam into the Milky Way, closing in at 5 million km per year.

"The collision will shake-up the Milky Way and it will be lit up like a Christmas Tree as new stars are created," Lewis said.

Gas stirred up by the crash will not last, according to Lewis.

"The gas will be swallowed up by a supermassive black hole," he said.

On the same three-billion-year timeline, the sun's own transformation will erase Earth entirely.

"The burning of helium in the sun will cause the sun to expand and within about three billion years, the Earth will be scorched by the growing sun," Lewis said.

"It will swallow Mercury, then Venus and then Earth," he said.

Long after Earth is gone, the wider universe faces a separate and stranger fate driven by dark energy.

"But the problem is that dark energy is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate," Lewis said.

"And all of the distant galaxies will one day disappear from us completely - we will never be able to see them again," he said.

Star formation itself has a deadline: the universe runs out of gas to build new stars in about 10 trillion years.

What survives that gas shortage are the smallest, longest-burning stars in the cosmos.

"As stars like the sun die, all we are left with are red dwarfs," Lewis said.

Red dwarfs measure only 20 percent the size of the sun, and they will outlast every other stellar type by a wide margin.

Even they cannot burn forever, and their extinction marks the final line in Lewis's timeline.

Ninety trillion years after the last new star ignites, the last red dwarf will flicker out, closing the 100 trillion-year countdown Lewis laid out.

No new light source replaces it, and no known process resets the clock.

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