The lead engineer for an experimental submersible that imploded on its way to the Titanic wreck says he felt pressured to get the vessel ready to dive and refused to pilot it on a journey several years earlier. “I’m not getting in it,” Tony Nissen said he told Stockton Rush, co-founder of the OceanGate company … Read more
The Titan submersible sent its final message just six seconds before it lost contact with the surface during its ill-fated dive to the Titanic, according to a US Coast Guard body probing the vessel’s implosion in June 2023, which killed all five people on board. “Dropped two wts,” the Titan’s text to its mother ship … Read more
Crew members have broken up an onstage scuffle between the stars of US band Jane’s Addiction, according to social media videos. Lead singer Perry Farrell was performing when he appeared to become angry at guitarist Dave Navarro during a Boston show on Friday night as part of the Los Angeles-formed alternative rockers’ reunion tour. Videos … Read more
Superstar Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris in the US presidential race, just moments after the Democrat nominee’s first debate with her Republican opponent Donald Trump wrapped up. The Shake It Off singer posted the announcement to Instagram on Wednesday afternoon (AEST). “Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight,” she said. Know the … Read more
The mother of a 14-year-old who has been charged with murder over the fatal shooting of four people at his high school in the US state of Georgia called the school before the killings, warning staff of an “extreme emergency” involving her son, a relative says. Annie Brown told the Washington Post that her sister, … Read more
A US couple is suing an Atlanta hospital — in the country’s southeast state of Georgia — for allegedly losing part of a patient’s skull after it was removed during brain surgery because “several bone flaps” were lacking identification. Fernando and Maria Cluster are accusing staff at Emory University Hospital Midtown of negligence that led … Read more
Once again, classrooms and hallways turned into scenes of carnage and horror as a mass shooter killed four people at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia on Wednesday. It’s the 45th school shooting so far this year and the deadliest US school shooting since March 2023. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Students at US school speak … Read more
One of two doctors charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s death has appeared in a federal court in Los Angeles after reaching a deal to plead guilty and co-operate with prosecutors. Mark Chavez, 54, of San Diego, stood in court with his lawyer on Friday and told a judge he understood his rights. Magistrate Judge … Read more
An Australian woman and her son have been killed in a wrong-way crash in San Jose, California. Rebecca Olsen, 47, had just picked up Charlie, 14, from school when the Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck speared head-on into their Tesla on Highway 85. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Australian woman and son killed in California crash. Know … Read more
Five more people have died and more than a dozen sickened in a multi-state listeria outbreak stemming from Boar’s Head deli meat in the US. The total number of deaths is now eight. A total of 57 people have been hospitalised since the outbreak, which the Centre of Disease Control said was the largest listeriosis … Read more
