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Police in central Poland responded to a late evening call over an incident that surely sent chills down the spines of Russophobe conspiracy theorists: a T-55 tank rampaging down the main street. When police arrived at the scene in the town of Pajeczno on Thursday night, they found the Soviet-era tank casually parked on a central roadway with its two occupants nearby, one of whom was an intoxicated 49-year-old man who had been in the driver seat. As it turns out, he had been authorized to drive the vehicle – although his superiors presumably only wanted him to move it off and on the damaged trailer on which it was being transported, rather than driving it through the city center. They also likely expected him to remain sober while operating the 36-ton armored combat vehicle. To make matters worse, local media report that there was no insurance policy on the tank. Police were unable to get the tank off the street and onto a trailer until 5am. The bulletproof joyride could cost the...

Thousands of revellers, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have flocked to the Hagia Sophia in the historic heart of Istanbul, for the first official Muslim prayers held at the site in 86 years. The Friday prayers marked the monument’s reopening for worship after Turkish President President Tayyip Erdogan declared it to be a mosque once more. Prayer mats were laid out in Sultanahmet Square as the call to prayer rang out. A holy site for Christians and Muslims for almost 1,500 years, the Hagia Sophia was initially built in 537 as a cathedral in the Byzantine Empire, before being seized by the Ottoman Empire 900 years later and converted into a mosque until 1934, when it became a museum. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1985, with the organization’s Director-General Audrey Azoulay having said previously that she “deeply regrets” the decision by a Turkish court to annul the monument's status as a museum earlier this month. Despite criticism from...

HOUSTON – Houston police and fire officials are responding to reports that documents are being burned in the courtyard of the Consulate General of China in Houston, according to the Houston Police Department. Houston police say they began receiving the reports that documents were being burned just after 8 p.m. at 3417 Montrose Boulevard where the Consulate General of China is located. Houston fire officials confirmed they are responding to the scene and HPD officials were needed for traffic control in the area. Last time this happened at an embass in the US was Japan in 1941 This comes on the back of Sec Def today confirming the US is sending forces to Asia to Confront china

Ikea has agreed to pay $46 million to the parents of a two-year-old boy who was killed when a chest of drawers tipped over on him, the family's lawyer said Tuesday. Jozef Dudek died in May 2017 at his home in California when a Malm model dresser toppled over on him, inflecting neck crushing injuries that caused him to suffocate. That piece of furniture had been recalled a year earlier following a series of similar accidents. The boy's parents sued the Swedish furniture maker in 2018 on grounds the company failed to take measures to make its products safer and more stable, the law firm Feldman Shepherd said in a statement. Ikea agreed Monday to pay the family $46 million in what could be the largest child wrongful death settlement ever in the United States, the law firm said. The same company in 2016 won a $50 million dollar settlement shared out among three families that lost children to similar accidents involving the Malm chest of drawers. Ikea announced the recall of nearly...

KFC is 3D-printing chicken meat using ‘animal flesh cells’ at a Russian research lab to provide customers with more ethically-sourced meat. The fast food giant is working with Moscow-based company 3D Bioprinting Solutions as part of its 'meat of the future' concept. The finger lickin’ bioprinting tech method uses chicken cells and plant material to reproduce the taste and texture of chicken meat, although it still uses chicken flesh. Researchers are taking lab-cultured chicken cells from a small sample of flesh, multiplying the cells to create a paste and 3D-printing the paste into cubes to be seasoned and delivered to restaurants. The project aims to create the world's first laboratory-produced chicken nuggets that will be 'as close as possible in taste and appearance' to the original product. KFC said will provide its partner with all of the necessary ingredients, such as breading and spices, to achieve the signature Kentucky-fried taste. The engineered substitute will...

A man dressed as a FedEx driver opened fire at the home of judge Esther Salas The attack happened in North Brunswick, New Jersey, on Sunday night Daniel Anderl, the judge's 20-year-old son, was killed after opening the door to the gunman Her husband Mark Anderl, 63, is in critical condition in the hospital Judge Salas is believed to have been in the basement during the shooting Last week, the judge was assigned a case involving links to Jeffrey Epstein She previously presided over the trial of former Real Housewife Teresa Giudice in a case regarding financial fraud She has also dealt with cases involving members of the Grape Street Crips The son of a federal judge has been shot dead and her husband critically wounded after they were attacked at their home by a gunman dressed as a FedEx driver. The attack happened at the home of Esther Salas, 51, an Obama-appointed District Court judge, in North Brunswick, New Jersey, on Sunday evening. The judge's 20-year-old son Daniel...