| Trump says U.S. will 'win' fight against opioid epidemic Posted: 08 Aug 2017 02:07 PM PDT  Trump held a "major briefing" at his private golf club to discuss how to properly combat the crisis and "keep youth from going down this deadly path."
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| Colon Cancer Deaths Rising for Young, White Americans Posted: 08 Aug 2017 08:47 AM PDT  Despite higher rates of screening, a growing number of white Americans under the age of 55 are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
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| Tourists Who Stop At Crash Horrified To Find Mom Dragging Daughter's Body Into Woods: Cops Posted: 09 Aug 2017 06:20 AM PDT  Motorists from New York stumbled upon the shocking sight Sunday, officials said.
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| Video Shows Jogger Pushing Woman In Front Of Bus Posted: 09 Aug 2017 05:17 AM PDT  The bus driver, however, was prompt enough to immediately stop the vehicle before it hit the woman.
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| Qatar offers visa-free entry to 80 nationalities Posted: 09 Aug 2017 05:53 AM PDT  Qatar, isolated by its neighbours in a diplomatic crisis, on Wednesday introduced a visa-free entry programme for 80 nationalities to stimulate air transport and tourism. "The visa exemption scheme will make Qatar the most open country in the region," tourism department official Hassan al-Ibrahim told a news conference in Doha. Interior ministry official Mohamed Rashed al-Mazrouei said that nationals of 80 countries would only need to present a valid passport for entry to the energy-rich Gulf state which is to host football's 2022 World Cup.
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| Venezuela army hunts rebels behind raid on military base Posted: 08 Aug 2017 02:09 AM PDT  Venezuela's top military brass appeared on state TV late Monday to show support for President Nicolas Maduro, as the government hunts for leaders of uniformed rebels who raided an army base and made off with weapons. Padrino gave an updated report on Sunday's attack on the base in the northwestern city of Valencia by 20 men in uniform, an incident that fueled fears the country's worsening crisis could tip into armed conflict. Padrino said that ex-National Guard captain, Juan Carlos Caguaripano, and a former lieutenant, Jefferson Gabriel Garcia, were behind the raid.
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| Mazda confirms HCCI engine for 2019 Posted: 07 Aug 2017 11:00 PM PDT  Mazda on Tuesday laid out a company-wide strategy that looks ahead to the year 2030. Chief among the plans is the introduction of the world's first production Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) engine. Mazda says the technology will appear in 2019 in a next-generation Skyactiv-X engine, though no particular models were mentioned.
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| Landlord troubles: rich San Franciscans in uproar after their private street is sold Posted: 07 Aug 2017 06:54 PM PDT  The neighborhood is one of San Francisco's most expensive and exclusive. For most San Franciscans accustomed to being at the whims of speculators in a soaring real estate market, the arrival of a new landlord is a near certain harbinger of bad news. Two upstart real estate investors from San Jose, Tina Lam and Michael Cheng, had snapped up the street, the sidewalks and the landscaped islands of Presidio Terrace at a public auction of tax-defaulted properties in April 2015.
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| Donald Trump says US nuclear arsenal is 'far stronger and more powerful than ever before' Posted: 09 Aug 2017 06:00 AM PDT  Donald Trump has said that thanks to him, the US's nuclear arsenal is "far stronger and more powerful than ever before," a day after he dramatically upped the stakes in the war of rhetoric with North Korea and threatened "fire and fury" against the isolated country. Mr Trump took to his favoured venue Twitter to communicate this morning that his first act as President was to strengthen the US nuclear arsenal. My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal.
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| A Woman Is Suing Costco For A Chicken Salad That Ruined Her Life Posted: 08 Aug 2017 12:15 PM PDT  She's still recovering two years later.
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| Kenya election chief rejects opposition's hacking claims as protests erupt Posted: 09 Aug 2017 01:31 PM PDT  By Humphrey Malalo and Rajiv Golla NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's election commission dismissed claims on Wednesday by opposition leader Raila Odinga that its systems and website had been hacked to produce a "fictitious" lead for Odinga's long-time rival President Uhuru Kenyatta. Angry protests erupted in opposition strongholds in the capital Nairobi and the western city of Kisumu as the counting of votes from Tuesday's election continued, but the election commission said the election had been free and fair. As of 1900 GMT, provisional results from the election commission website put Kenyatta in front with 54.3 percent of votes counted to 44.8 percent for Odinga - a margin of 1.4 million ballots with 97 percent of polling stations reported.
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| Florida man discovers huge snake has been living in his attic for years Posted: 09 Aug 2017 12:23 PM PDT  Out of all the stuff that can go wrong in Florida, finding out that a snake has been hiding out in your attic is probably low on the list. Bob van der Herchen recently had the pleasure of discovering a 6-foot boa constrictor living in the attic of his home in Englewood, Florida, rent free. According to WFLA, van der Herchen's son and wife often complained about noise coming from the attic, but he payed no attention to it. SEE ALSO: Commuting snake hitches a ride home on a Boston train "He used to complain he'd hear sounds in the attic. I didn't think much of it, I thought maybe it was rats," van der Herchen told WFLA. Just rats, nothing to see here. Well, the attic intruder was actually a massive snake. A snake trapper helped the family safely remove the boa from the attic, and in the process found it had shed some skin. The man estimates the snake had been living in the attic for years. According to van der Herchen, the snake's cozy resting spot was right above the chair his wife sat in. "It was actually bunking in the rafter space right above the Florida room chair where my wife sits," he said. The man believes the snake was once a pet, a common problem in Florida, and entered his home by a tree branch that was hanging close to his house. "He hopes this story serves as a reminder to homeowners to trim overgrown trees," WFLA wrote. Yeah, that's the problem here. Overgrown trees. WATCH: Rogue deer tackles innocent man in a parking lot
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| Elon Musk Reveals How the $35,000 Model 3 is So Cheap Posted: 09 Aug 2017 06:07 AM PDT  It's all under the hood.
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| Google fires employee behind anti-diversity memo for 'perpetuating gender stereotypes' Posted: 08 Aug 2017 09:10 AM PDT  Google has fired a computer engineer who caused a storm in Silicon Valley by asserting that the gender gap among technology workers was down to biological differences between men and women. James Damore, a Harvard university graduate who had worked at Google for four years, ignited a sexism row last week when he distributed a 10-page manifesto that accused the company of "political bias" against conservatives and said initiatives to encourage female programmers were "unfair". On Tuesday Damore revealed he had been dismissed by Google for "perpetuating gender stereotypes" and said he was considering legal action against the company. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who is holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, offered him a job and accused Google of censorship. Google's CEO Sundar Pichai Credit: Reuters Damore's manifesto had accused the company of a "left bias" and a "politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence". It said the yawning gap in jobs and pay for male and female computer experts was partly due to biological causes such as "men's higher drive for status" and women being "more prone to anxiety" rather than any biases and called for an end to the company's initiatives to promote minorities. Google employees publicly criticised the memo but Damore said he had received many private messages of support from staff who felt the same way. Sundar Pichai, the company's chief executive, said that while parts of the memo were fair to debate, much of it violated the company's code of conduct. "To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK," he said in an email to staff. The controversy has come at a sensitive time for Google, which is under investigation by the US government after accusations of gender pay inequality, and has been forced to hand over pay records. Former Google staff member Joshua Damore (centre) with two colleagues Assange, who has repeatedly attacked Google over privacy issues, tweeted: "Women and men deserve respect. That includes not firing them for politely expressing ideas but rather arguing back." Damore said he was exploring all possible legal remedies against the company. Debate over the treatment of women in the male-dominated tech industry has raged for months. Claims of persistent sexual harassment in the ranks of Uber and of several venture capital firms led to management shakeups. Management at the largest tech firms, including Google, have publicly committed to diversifying their workforces, although the percentage of women in engineering and management roles remains low at many companies. Inside Google London offices
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| The Latest: Officials in Guam say it's safe from North Korea Posted: 08 Aug 2017 10:17 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on North Korea's nuclear and missile programs (all times local):
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| Facts, Photos On 72nd Anniversary Of Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Posted: 09 Aug 2017 05:23 AM PDT  Aug. 9 marks the anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the U.S. during World War II.
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| Japanese fighters conducted air drills with U.S. B-1B bombers on Tuesday Posted: 08 Aug 2017 06:36 PM PDT  Japan said it had conducted joint air drills with U.S. supersonic bombers in Japanese skies close to the Korean peninsula on Tuesday as tension in the region escalates amid North Korea's continued ballistic missile tests. The exercise around Japan's southern Kyushu island involved two U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers and two Japanese F-2 jet fighters, Japan's Air Self Defence Force (ASDF) said in a news release.
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| 'El Chapo' moves to hire top-flight NY mafia defender Posted: 08 Aug 2017 03:19 PM PDT  Drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman wants to dump his US public defenders for a quartet of top-flight criminal defense lawyers, including attorneys who got an infamous New York mafia boss out of prison. Guzman, one of the world's most notorious criminals who twice escaped prison in his native Mexico, has moved to hire Jeffrey Lichtman, Marc Fernich, Eduardo Balarezo and William Purpura, three of the lawyers confirmed to AFP.
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| Delta Jet Blows Two Tires on Takeoff Posted: 09 Aug 2017 09:33 AM PDT  No one was hurt.
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| Vietnam wins U.S. defense pledges as tension with China grows Posted: 09 Aug 2017 01:08 PM PDT  Vietnam has won the promise of a visit from a U.S. aircraft carrier and deeper defense cooperation from the United States as strains show with China over the disputed South China Sea.
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| Exclusive San Francisco street auctioned for £70,000 after wealthy residents ‘failed to pay $14 property tax’ Posted: 08 Aug 2017 04:15 AM PDT  The wealthy residents of an exclusive San Francisco street have threatened legal action after learning that the communal areas outside their homes have been sold to a private investor for a combined total of just £70,000. Despite the street's mansions selling for millions of dollars, an unpaid tax bill saw the carefully manicured lawns and pristine pavements of Presidio Terrace auctioned for a mere $90,000. Michael Cheng and his wife Tina Lam bought the gated street and now own the road, footpaths and other areas of "common ground" in the private development.
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| Chloe Ayling: Who is the British model who was drugged and kidnapped in Italy? Posted: 09 Aug 2017 07:52 AM PDT  Chloe Ayling, 20, is the glamour model who was drugged and abducted in Italy after reportedly being duped into attending a bogus photoshoot. Italian police say she was snatched last month by at least two men who claim to be part of dark web group Black Death, who say they sell women as sex slaves online. The kidnapping The place where a man identified as Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish citizen with British residency, held a young British model Credit: ITALIAN POLICE PRESS OFFICE / HANDOUT Miss Ayling was snatched last month by a group calling itself Black Death and is believed to have been drugged and transported in a bag to an isolated village near Turin, where she was held for six days as her captors tried to auction her online. She described how she was drugged, handcuffed, gagged and put in a bag in the boot of a car by kidnappers before being driven off to the farmhouse where she was held captive. "A person wearing black gloves came from behind and put one hand on my neck and one on my mouth to stop me from screaming," she said in her statement. "A second person wearing a black balaclava gave me an injection in my right forearm. I think I lost consciousness. When I woke up I was wearing a pink bodysuit and the socks I am wearing now. "I realised I was in the boot of a car with my wrists and ankles handcuffed, adhesive tape on my mouth. I was inside a bag and was only able to breathe through a small hole." What is the dark web? 01:33 As she screamed for help she was driven 120 miles to the tiny hamlet of Borgial near the French border where they forced her to lie on the floor next to a chest of drawers and handcuffed her hands and feet to the legs, leaving her " totally immobilised". She was kept handcuffed to furniture in the village of Borgial but was freed after six days and taken to the British Consulate in Milan, despite the ransom not being paid, police said. They had taken photographs of her whilst she was unconscious which were posted on the dark web with the view to auctioning her off. Why was she released? According to Ms Ayling, one of her kidnappers confessed to her that they had made a mistake seizing her because she was the mother of a young child. He said it was against the "rules" of his organisation and his superiors were angry. Afterwards they removed the cuffs from her feet and allowed her to move around the farmhouse, she said. The captors demanded £270,000 from her agent but eventually dropped agreed to accept £50,000 and Herba took her to the British Consulate in Milan on July 17 where he was arrested. Her captor Photo released by police of a man identified as identified as Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish citizen with British residency Credit: Italian Police Photo via AP Lukasz Pawel Herba is accused of being part of a Black Death gang which drugged and kidnapped Chloe Ayling, who had been lured to Milan on the promise of a fashion shoot. Herba, 30, a Polish national who was living in Oldbury, in the West Midlands, told the 20-year-old glamour model as she was held prisoner in a remote farmhouse that unless her agent paid a ransom of $300,000, she would be sold as a sex slave in the Middle East. His home in Oldbury, in the West Midlands, has been raided by British officers. Under questioning by Italian police, he claimed he became part of the kidnapping gang because he was suffering from leukemia and desperately needed to raise half a million pounds for treatment. He could provide no medical proof of having the illness. He was arrested as he dropped the model off at the British Consulate in Milan on July 17. Who are the Black Death group? The Black Death group operates on the Dark Web and allegedly sells kidnapped women as sex slaves in online auctions. The group was investigated in 2016 amid fears that they were selling a 15-year-old British girl in an online auction. Europol had monitored the group's Dark Web site of as they advertised two teenagers for auction, one of whom was under the age of consent and described as "pure". A screenshot of a "Black Death Group" document on a laptop belonging to Lukasz Pawel Herba, Credit: REUTERS The auction of the 15-year-old, whose name was given as Laura, started at $750,000 and was due to take place at the end of May 2016, with the Black Death website warning that it was "fully booked". A second auction for a 17-year-old girl born in the UK named only as Gemma had been scheduled to take place just days earlier with a starting bid of $120,000. The age, hair colour and measurements of both teenagers were posted alongside their auction adverts. It is unknown whether these auctions went ahead. Questions over shoe shopping incident The Italian media has raised questions over the kidnapping after it was revealed the model went shoe shopping with her captor. Newspaper La Repubblica claimed Ms Ayling burst into tears when police investigators asked her about the trip. The newspaper reported: "That the kidnapping was real or that she was doped with ketamine is not put into question by the investigators. "But it is also tremendously true that many details do not add up. "Starting with a question that the police investigators suddenly asked Chloe, causing her to cry, 'But don't you think it is strange to go and buy shoes with your kidnapper? "Because that also happened and, of course, the shop assistant, identified by the cops, recognized her, and recognized the person she calls MD [Herba]." Her lawyer has called people who raised these questions "evil", defending his client's shoe shopping trip. He told Radio 4's Today programme: "She was told that she was going to be sold to somebody in the Middle East for sex. "She was told that people were there watching her and ready to kill her if she tried anything. "So she thought that the best idea was to go along with it and to be nice in a way to her captor because he told her that he wanted to release her somehow and sometime and she thought that the best thing to do was not to go in conflict with him. "So she abided to his request, 'let's go and buy groceries' and 'you need shoes, let's go buy shoes' and she didn't try to flee. "But I believe she was terrified at the moment and even if she could've asked for help she didn't because she was subjugated to this person, or people as she was given to understand." She told police she had developed a trusting relationship and even shared a bed with her kidnapper, who gave her chocolate and underwear, but she said he had not sexually assaulted her.
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| How Much Does Tesla's Model X SUV Cost Now? Posted: 08 Aug 2017 08:09 AM PDT  As Tesla looks to boost sales in the second half of the year, the Model X gets a price cut.
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| 32 Unbelievably Good Thanksgiving Appetizer Recipes Posted: 09 Aug 2017 09:27 AM PDT |
| Former Pakistan PM Sharif says ouster was 'insult to voters' Posted: 09 Aug 2017 02:19 PM PDT  Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the Supreme Court's decision to depose him last month was a "joke" and an insult to voters as he addressed a rally in Rawalpindi late Wednesday. The speech marks the first time Sharif has publicly commented on the court's ruling and comes as the former prime minister leads a defiant procession from Islamabad to his party's stronghold in the eastern city of Lahore. "No prime minister in Pakistan has ever been allowed to complete his term.
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| The Truth About In-Flight Turbulence Posted: 09 Aug 2017 05:31 AM PDT  A rundown of statistics, recent incidents, and what pilots and airlines do to avoid hitting potholes in the sky.
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| Let’s All Tell Indian Motorcycle What to Do Posted: 09 Aug 2017 11:16 AM PDT  Let's All Tell Indian Motorcycle What to Do Iconic name has grown considerably under Polaris' guidance, but is it doing enough? Not too long ago we here at RideApart got it into our heads that it would be a clever idea to sit down and tell Harley-Davidson
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| This Carl Sagan Prediction from 1995 Is Surprisingly Correct Posted: 09 Aug 2017 09:00 AM PDT  "When awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few..."
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| Trump lashes out over criticism from Senate leader Mitch McConnell Posted: 09 Aug 2017 02:02 PM PDT  Donald Trump has pushed back against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's contention that the President had "excessive expectations" about the speed of the democratic process, further displaying the strained relationship between the White House and Congress over the failure of Republican efforts to dismantle Obamacare. "Senator Mitch McConnell said I had 'excessive expectations,' but I don't think so," Mr Trump tweeted. Mr Trump and Congress failed to secure a major legislative victory during the President's first 200 days in office.
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| Water trapped inside Ohio fair ride may have led to accident Posted: 08 Aug 2017 11:01 AM PDT  A manufacturer's explanation that corrosion caused an amusement ride to fly apart in a deadly accident at the Ohio State Fair doesn't answer why or when it began rusting away or how it went unnoticed.
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| Where is Guam, the paradise island threatened by North Korea, and why is it important? Posted: 09 Aug 2017 06:41 AM PDT  The apparently sudden threat by North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, of a missile strike on the Pacific holiday paradise island of Guam is not as obscure as it first sounds. The remote 210-square mile island in the western Pacific Ocean, known for its white beaches and crystal blue waters, is also a strategic US military outpost and host to nuclear bombers and at least 6,000 US service members. Japanese soldiers take part in joint military exercises between the US, Japan, France and UK on Naval Base Guam Credit: AP On Monday night, two US B-1 bombers flew from Guam over the Korean peninsula, joining the South Korean and Japanese airforces in joint exercises that were bound to have riled Pyongyang, which over the weekend accused America of devising a "preventive war." The exercises are one likely reason why North Korea, located roughly 2,100 miles away to the northwest, selected the island as a potential target shortly after President Donald Trump vowed "fire and fury like the world has never seen" in response to Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme. An aerial view of U.S. Naval Base Guam Credit: Reuters The North's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported on Tuesday that the pariah nation's military may send a strong message that it can neutralise military assets on the US territory. Pacific Air Forces command, based in Hawaii, upped the rhetoric shortly afterwards, declaring "US ready to fight tonight" on its official Twitter account, linking to details of Monday's ten hour sortie. S. Dakota #Airmen arrive on Guam; conduct #bilateral missions w/Japan & ROK--U.S. ready to #fighttonighthttps://t.co/DhOTTdNT19pic.twitter.com/HSOkYKHPQ4— PACAF (@PACAF) August 8, 2017 "How we train is how we fight and the more we interface with our allies, the better prepared we are to fight tonight," said a B-1 pilot, quoted in an official press release. "The B-1 is a long-range bomber that is well-suited for the maritime domain and can meet the unique challenges of the Pacific." The tense stand-off puts Guam, and its population of just over 160,000, at the centre of one of the world's most volatile flashpoints. American military bases, including the sprawling Andersen Air Force Base and the Naval Base Guam, occupy nearly 30% of Guam's land. Governor of Guam reassures the island's residents after North Korea threat 00:48 The island, which was captured by the US from Spain in 1898 during the Spanish-American war, is America's most western territory but it is not a state. It has a seat in the US House of Representatives, currently occupied by Democrat Madeleine Bordallo, and it is run by an elected governor, Eddie Baza Calvo. Guam's citizens, 40% of whom are comprised of the Chamorro ethnic group, are American citizens by birth. Map: Guam in relation to North Korea Chamorros first settled the island about 4,000 years ago but over the past 400 years Guam has been ruled by Spain, the US and Japan. Located in the Micronesia region of the Pacific, it is positioned just over 3000 miles from both Sydney and Hawaii. The territory's tropical climate, with an average temperature of 28 degrees Celsius, makes it a popular location for tourists. At a glance | Guam North Korea and Donald Trump: Timeline of tensions North Korea & Donald Trump: Timeline of tensions 02:27
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| Night swim leaves Australian teen bloody and bewildered Posted: 08 Aug 2017 08:01 AM PDT  An Australian teenager emerged from a night-time dip in the ocean with blood streaming from his feet and ankles in a gruesome mystery that doctors have struggled to explain. Sam Kanizay waded waist-deep into the water at Brighton Beach in suburban Melbourne on Saturday evening, standing still for about 30 minutes. Washing the blood off his legs in the shower did little to stem the flow from what his family believed was an attack by sea lice.
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| Video Captures Moment When Gunmen Open Fire On Mexico Beach Posted: 08 Aug 2017 03:24 AM PDT  The shooting resulted in the deaths of three people and injured another two.
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| 17 Terrific Turkey Breast Recipes for Thanksgiving and Beyond Posted: 09 Aug 2017 09:08 AM PDT |
| Putin Heads to Occupied Georgia Territory on War Anniversary Posted: 08 Aug 2017 09:23 AM PDT  It's a slap at Mike Pence and Georgia itself nine years after the Russian invasion.
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| The Reason China Can’t Find Anyone to Operate Its Alien-Hunting Telescope Posted: 08 Aug 2017 09:11 AM PDT  Even for a million dollar salary.
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| Philippine president on human rights: "Don't go there" Posted: 07 Aug 2017 06:51 PM PDT  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte met Monday with America's top diplomat, where he voiced solidarity with the U.S. amid global concerns over North Korea's nuclear program and angrily dismissed media questions about human rights abuses by his government.
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| Trump says North Korea will be met with 'fire and fury like the world has never seen' if it escalates nuclear threat Posted: 08 Aug 2017 12:29 PM PDT  Donald Trump has claimed the threat from North Korea will be met with "fire and fury like the world has never seen" if they continue to expand their nuclear and missile programmes. The comments come after reports that North Korea had produced a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). In a press conference at his Bedminster, New Jersey property, Mr Trump warned that North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un "best not make any more threats to the US".
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| When is the Perseid Meteor shower and how can I see it? Posted: 09 Aug 2017 07:32 AM PDT  The Perseids is an annual meteor shower that peaks around mid-August,with this year's peak expected between 11 and 13 August. It's regarded as one of the brightest and most visible meteor showers. Here's everything you need to know about the spectacle, including dates and where to see it. #perseids are coming!! pic.twitter.com/F19pqGL3nO— GaryFildes (@TheGaryFildes) July 9, 2017 A post shared by Anders Nilsson (@fotoandersnilsson) on Aug 9, 2017 at 1:33am PDT Lucky snap! I caught this early bird #perseids #meteor just before packing up. It may look like daytime in this image, but it's only the effect of a bright and just off frame #Moon. The #perseid #meteorshower will peak the night of August 12th so grab a blanket, buds, and some #darksky. #nightsky #astronomy #landscapeastro #nightscape #sonyalpha #sonya7s @weownthenight_az @instagramaz @earthskyscience @visitsedona #sedona #cathedralrock #redrocks #az #arizonasky @joanwood01 @_tzr_ A post shared by jarredpd (@jarredpd) on Aug 7, 2017 at 11:27am PDT What is a meteor shower? Ameteor shower occurs when Earth passes through the debris stream occupying the orbit of a comet, in this case comet Swift-Tuttle. Perspective makes meteor showers appear to emanate from a single point in the sky known as the shower radiant. A typical meteor results from a particle the size of a grain of sand vaporising in Earth's atmosphere when it enters at 134,000mph. Something larger than a grape will produce a fireball and this is often accompanied by a persistent afterglow known as a meteor train. This is a column of ionised gas slowly fading from view as it loses energy. The Perseids appear to originate from within the star constellation Perseus, hence the shower's name. A shooting star, top left, is seen during the Perseid meteor shower in Poland in 2016. Credit: EPA/LUKASZ OGRODOWCZYK When can I see the Perseid meteor shower? The window for this year's meteor shower is from July 17 to August 24. Stargazers stand a chance of seeing the shower at any point in this window, however the peak will occur around August 11, 12 and 13. The best time to take a look at the sky will be from about 1am BST in the Northern Hemisphere until the onset of dawn twilight. Space.com says the moon, which will be three-quarters full at the time of the peak, will rise around 11pm meaning the spectacle will be trickier to see this year. However, sky-watchers should still be able to see the shower, despite the moon's glare. Peak rates of 150-200 meteors per hour were recorded in 2016, but typical rates are about 80 meteors an hour streaking across the night sky, each leaving a trail. Complete list of every full moon in 2017 The worlds best stargazing locations How can I see it? Choose a dark location away from stray lights and give yourself at least 20 minutes in total darkness to properly dark adapt. Look at a height approximately two-thirds up the sky in any direction. If you want a recommendation, east through south offers some great background constellations in the early hours during August. Look for the shower's "radiant" from the north-east corner of Perseus. Here are a few great places to view the shower. Galloway Forest Park: Galloway is a couple of hours from Glasgow and an hour from Carlisle. The park's most popular spot for stargazing is Loch Trool. Exmoor and around: Exmoor was granted International Dark-Sky Reserve status by the International Dark-Sky Association in 2011. Light pollution is managed to make the area more appealing to amateur astronomers. Romney Marsh: Night once provided cover for smugglers known as Owlers, but today Romney Marsh offers celestial bounty, arching over a landscape adorned with the spires of ancient churches. Kielder: Kielder Forest is officially the darkest place in England – 250 square miles of wooded beauty where Northumberland brushes against Scotland. It has its own fabulous, modern, wood-clad observatory on the slopes of Black Fell above Kielder Water. North York Moors: As well as stunning night skies, the North York Moors boast historic market towns such as Helmsley and Pickering, plus appealing coastal spots, including Scarborough and Whitby. Reader sends in beautiful Perseid timelapse 00:15 Tell me more about Comet Swift-Tuttle The wonderfully named Comet Swift-Tuttle, the parents of the Persied meteor shower, is the largest object known to repeatedly pass Earth (it's 16 miles wide). It orbits the sun ever 133 years and each time it passes through the inner solar system, it warms up releasing fresh comet material into its orbital stream, according to earthsky.org. The last time it was closest to the sun was in December 1992. It will be back again in July 2126. Total solar eclipse 2017: explainer
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| 'Son of Sam' killer was arrested 40 years ago this week Posted: 09 Aug 2017 12:33 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — For a year, David Berkowitz terrorized New York.
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