I recently had a minor car accident – a delivery driver pulled out of a side road. My car was a bit of a mess, but I was unharmed. His insurer has accepted liability and the claim is proceeding fine. However, every day I receive calls at home from aggressive salespeople trying to persuade me [...]
NICHOLAS TOOTH, A 25-year-old second row with Quirindi Lions in New South Wales, Australia, died yesterday after suffering a head injury in a regional fixture on Saturday. Tooth clashed heads with a Narrabri Blue Boars opponent in the Central North 1st grade match and was treated at the scene before being airlifted to hospital in [...]
The search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will be doubled by a further 60,000 square kilometres if the Boeing 777 is not found by May, officials have said. So far 61% of the 60,000 square kilometer (23,000-square-mile) search area has been scoured off Australia's west coast. The remaining 39% will have been searched [...]
A young woman has revealed how an accident during a ski vacation left her with phenomenally advanced mental abilities after she developed an incredibly rare condition known as acquired savant syndrome. In an essay written for xoJane, the anonymous woman recounts the day that she received her life-changing injury, which took place during a family ski vacation [...]
New measures to speed up the processing of medical negligence cases and cut legal costs will be introduced by the end of the year, according to the Minister for Health Leo Varadkar. Legislative changes would include the introduction of pre-action protocols and periodic payment orders to the victims of medical negligence, Mr Varadkar told delegates [...]
A man in his 80s was injured after a tractor struck him on a farm in Co Clare. The accident took place near the Loop Head Peninsula on Thursday. The National Aeromedical Coordination Centre asked the Irish Coast Guard to provide a helicopter so the man could be transported to hospital. A spokesperson from the [...]
Earlier this week, Jimmy Kimmel Live! shut down Hollywood Boulevard for Van Halen's first-ever live televised performances with original/current frontman David Lee Roth. It was a memorable two-night stint for the iconic hard-rock singer, made even more remarkable by the singer bloodying his nose while furiously twirling a metal baton. Roth soldiered on, wearing a [...]
Airline pilot organisations have expressed their shock at the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash on 24 March – but also their distress that international standards for investigation and the release of information are not being followed. The European Cockpit Association (ECA) says it accepts that the information released suggests the co-pilot probably acted deliberately to destroy [...]
An Air Canada plane had an accident early Sunday as it landed at Halifax International Airport in the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia, injuring 23 people. The Montreal-based airline said flight AC624 was carrying 133 passengers and five crew members when it was “involved in an incident upon landing” in Halifax at 12:43 a.m. [...]
A yearlong investigation by government scientists has concluded that a major accident at a nuclear waste dump was caused by the wrong brand of cat litter. The U.S. Department of Energy has released a 277-page report into an explosion that occurred on Feb. 14, 2014, at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. According [...]