Four people have been seriously injured following a crash at Alton Towers amusement park, involving two carriages on the Smiler attraction. One of the carriages contained 16 guests while the other was empty, they came together on a low section of the track. An Alton Towers spokeswoman said: "The resort's fully qualified first responders were on the [...]
KFC wants the world to know: There’s no such thing as an eight-legged, six-winged chicken. Among the urban legends that have dogged the fried-chicken chain for years, it seems a particularly stubborn one alleges that the company has created a mutant strain of arachnid chickens capable of producing a bumper crop of drumsticks and hot [...]
Enrique Iglesias injured two of his fingers trying to grab a drone during a performance in Mexico over the weekend. The 40-year-old Spanish heart-throb tried to grab onto the drone which was being used to take crowd shots during his concert at the Plaza de Toros de Playas in Tijuana. "Something went wrong and he had [...]
We reached out to Volvo for answers about what went wrong here, and the company’s response was also a bit disturbing. Volvo spokesperson Johan Larsson explained that the video is mislabeled. He said the car is not attempting to self-park. “It seems they are trying to demonstrate pedestrian detection and auto-braking,” said Larsson by email. [...]
On Saturday, Princeton University mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., whose life was the subject of the film A Beautiful Mind, was killed, with his wife Alicia, in a taxi crash on the New Jersey Turnpike, NJ.com reports. He was 86. She was 82. State Police Sgt. Gregory Williams told NJ.com that the taxi driver lost [...]
The Supreme Court has asked the European Court of Justice to decide key issues to establish liability for compensation paid out to a woman injured in a road incident. The ECJ ruling will have implications for dozens of other cases. The issue arises following a previous determination by the ECJ that Ireland had failed to [...]
According to the latest quarterly Rental Report by Daft.ie, there were fewer properties available to rent nationwide at the beginning of May than at any point since 2006, with just 4,300 properties compared to 7,200 a year previously. Overall, rental prices nationwide continued to ease slightly in the first three months of 2015 with the national average rent [...]
A Wexford couple and their daughter had a lucky escape when a door from a passing school bus dislodged and smashed into their windscreen. Pat Creevey and his wife Eileen of Grange, Kilmore were travelling down Hill Street in Wexford on Thursday afternoon when the freak accident occurred. The couple's daughter Deirdre. a professional musician, [...]
It might work well in sunny Australia, not so sure it will be such a success in rainy old Ireland. AN ambitious team of undergraduate students from the University of New South Wales are on the brink of creating the Southern Hemisphere’s first road legal solar sports car. Having built and raced five generations of [...]
U2 front man Bono has admitted he is still struggling to play the guitar five months after a horrific cycling accident.The 54-year-old crooner broke his arm in six places as well as fracturing his eye socket, shoulder, elbow and hand.Despite surgery and intensive physio the rocker is still struggling with his arm. “It feels like [...]