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 Lauren Anne Dickason was charged with murdering her daughters Liane, aged six, and twins Maya and Karla, aged two. Dickason, who is on trial in the High Court in Christchurch, New Zealand, has admitted to killing her children but denies it was murder. Her defence claims she is not guilty by reason of insanity. “I did the twins first… The first one was being really, really, really horrible to me lately,” the mum explained, referring to Karla. “She has been biting me and hitting me and scratching me and throwing tantrums 24 hours a day – and I just don’t know how to manage that. That is why I did her first.” She explained that the children were jumping on couches and not listening to her. So she went to the garage, spotted some cable ties and thought, “That could possibly work”. In the interview, Dickason admitted she “had been thinking about it for sure,” and put the three sisters in a room before using the cable ties on them. That attempt was unsuccessful, however, so she suffocat...

 The bone flute is the world's oldest musical instrument. Its pieces were discovered in an Egyptian cave. It is a 40,000 year artifact according to archaeologists.  With five finger holes and a V-shaped mouthpiece, this flute is made from the naturally hollow wing bone of a griffon vulture. This flute is about 0.3 inch wide and was originally about 13 inches long. The mammoth-ivory flutes would have been very challenging to make. Using only stone tools, the flute maker would have had to split a section of curved ivory along its natural grain. The two halves would then have been hollowed out, carved, and fitted together with an airtight seal. The flute bone was discovered in 1995 by Ivan Turk. It is believed that a Neanderthal made the bone because of its sophisticated nature. It is usually adapted to a right handed musician.

I was surprised to find out that there were words I have been saying my whole life that were actually acronyms. Acronyms are everywhere and most of us use them all the time but not everyone knows what they stand for. We have combined in this article some of the most common acronyms and we have sorted them from the easiest to the most difficult. You will find the ones at the top quite easy to guess but as you make your way to the bottom I doubt you will know what they stand for. 1. Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity. 2. LED. Light emitting diode. 3. GPS Global positioning system 4. USB Universal Serial Bus 5. SMS Short Message Service 6. PDF Portable document format 7. GB Gigabyte 8. WWW World wide Web 9. SIM Subscriber Identity Module 10. ATM Automated teller machine. 11. FAQ Frequently asked questions. 12. IQ Intelligent quotient 13. SOS Save our soul Save our ship 14. OCD Obsessive compulsive disorder 15. CVS Consumer value stores 16. LASER Light amplification by stimulated emis...

Although Michael Phelps officially retired seven years ago, his record continued to top the sport of swimming ever since. That is until Sunday, when French 21-year-old Leon Marchand broke Phelps’ world record in the men’s 400-meter individual medley. Phelps set the old record of 4:03.84 at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Fifteen years later, Marchand shaved an impressive 1.34 seconds off for a new world record time of 4 minutes, 02.50 seconds. Marchand set the new mark on the first day of the World Aquatics Championships. It was the last individual record that Phelps held since retiring for good after the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. “That was insane — one of the most painful things I’ve done,” Marchand said on the Olympics’ official website. “It was amazing to do it here and the time is crazy. The best is yet to come.” Afterward, he was appropriately presented with the gold medal by the legendary American swimmer. Marchand was just six years old when Phelps set the previous world record i...

 All political party activities in Niger have been suspended until further notice, army Colonel Amadou Abdramane said on state television Thursday, after the army declared allegiance to leaders of a coup that toppled the government.  The United Nations and the U.S. have called for the release of Niger's president Mohamed Bazoum, after a group of soldiers claimed to have removed him from power. Bazoum had earlier urged democratic forces in the country to resist the power grab. Plus, Russian president Vladimir Putin has told African leaders attending the Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg that he'd gift them tens of thousands of grain within months despite Western sanctions, which he said made it difficult for Moscow to export its grain and fertilizers, and more.