Uprooted tree reveals 1 000 year old skeleton

The body of a 21-year-old girl who went missing more than a month ago in Missouri was found June 18. Jessi Wilfong was reported missing May 25 by her mother and was last seen alive days earlier on May 19 when she was captured on surveillance footage arriving at the home of her uncle, Lawrence Schanda, and his 59-year-old girlfriend Teresa Baumgartner, Fox 3 Now reported . The Cape Girardeau County Sheriff’s office immediately launched an investigation into her disappearance, with authorities issuing a search warrant June 15 at a residence. Authorities suspected “from the evidence collected and other information” that “foul play was involved” in Wilfong’s disappearance. During the investigation, “information led deputies to a location in close proximity to the previously searched residence,” on June 18, according to the sheriff’s office. “Subsequent investigation revealed the site of a recently dug portion of ground inside of a barn structure,” the sheriff’s office … [Read more...] about Body Of 21-Year-Old Who Went Missing After Her Uncle Picked Her Up Found Buried In Barn

Scientists once assumed that the best place to look for extraterrestrial life would be planets within their star ’s habitable, or “Goldilocks” zone, that narrow range of orbits where water remains liquid on a planet ’s surface. Around our Sun , the habitable zone stretches from just outside the orbit of Venus to just outside the orbit of Mars, with Earth squarely in the middle. But new research suggests scientists searching for habitable planets should look outside habitable zones — way outside. In a paper published Monday in the journal Nature astronomy, researchers from the universities of Bern and Zurich conclude that certain super Earth exoplanets — rocky planets between 2 and 10 times Earth’s mass —  could remain habitable for forms of life at distances 10 times that of Earth from the Sun. Some planets could even remain habitable for tens of billions of years after getting expelled from their solar system, becoming strange oases wandering interstellar … [Read more...] about No star, no problem: Rogue planets could incubate life for billions of years

When Russia's Vladimir Putin began a military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it was widely assumed that Ukraine would surrender quickly. Instead, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky—an actor-turned-politician famous for playing an actor-turned-politician in Servant of the People —refused to budge, withstood multiple assassination attempts and rallied his people to fight. He pleaded with the international community to implement sanctions on the Russians and to provide weapons and ammunition for the Ukrainians. How did Zelensky accomplish this transformation? Where did he first take Putin's measure? Read about it in this exclusive advance look from Ukrainian journalist and political commentator Serheii Rudenko's upcoming Zelensky: A Biography (Polity Books, July 18), in which he explores Zelensky's life and governing style, from his childhood through the beginnings of the war. In the beginning was the word. Or rather, several words. And, more precisely, the name of … [Read more...] about New Zelensky biography reveals first meeting with Putin: ‘bundle of nerves’

YINCHUAN, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Dawukou District in the city of Shizuishan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is known for the saline and alkaline land located at the foot of Helan Mountain that is very hostile to agriculture. The district, part of an old coal-mining region that closed five years ago, has taken up the challenge of transforming the local economy, embracing green agriculture despite the poor soil and lack of water. Shizuishan was one of the 10 coal mining bases authorized by the Chinese government in the 1950s when large-scale coal mines were built at the foot of Helan Mountain. All the mines were shut down in 2017 due to the damage they caused to the local environment and farmland. In recent years, backed by a government campaign of "building a prosperous countryside," local farmers have been working on ecological recovery, turning the vast tracts of saline and alkaline land into a base for vegetable farming and fish breeding. In Zaoxiang Village, … [Read more...] about Across China: Farmers breathe life into soil in old coal-mining area

Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. A new “crypto” super PAC with some wealthy friends has just appeared on the scene , and the group is not messing around. The “Crypto Freedom PAC” has already thrown nearly a million dollars into ads supporting Arizona GOP Senate candidate and Bitcoin millionaire Blake Masters. The PAC is openly allied with conservative political powerhouse Club for Growth, which has backed Masters’ candidacy alongside the group’s sometime rival, Donald Trump , who endorsed the Menlo Park entrepreneur earlier this month. Club for Growth is a conservative nonprofit that advocates for free-market economics. It has long wielded substantial influence in Republican circles, and recently began to wade into the blockchain space. An official affiliated with the super PAC told The Daily Beast the group is a “bit of a response to GOP establishment crypto PACs” that … [Read more...] about New Crypto Super PAC Has Deep Pockets—and Old Connections

A bloke is making money in his sleep by charging people to wake him up - and he's racking up £28,000 a month. Jakey Boehm is a social media influencer and came up with a clever way to earn a bit of extra cash and rigged his bedroom with speakers, lasers, and a bubble machine. Then he encouraged his followers to pay to wake him up - they can choose whatever song they like and it'll be backed up with an annoying light show. Jakey, from Australia’s Gold Coast, is now going viral and has racked up 520,000 followers - many of whom are paying real money to wake him up each day. He gets woken up at all times of the night ( Image: Jam Press Vid/@jakeyboehm) He made £28,000 last month ( Image: Jam Press Vid/@jakeyboehm) What do you think about Jakey's business idea? Let us know in the comments... The avid TikTok user said shared a clip that has been viewed over 6.9 million times with over 438,000 likes, which shows the 28-year-old being abruptly … [Read more...] about Bloke makes £28,000 a month by letting people wake him up however they want

A woman who once felt "embarrassed" by her super bendy thumbs now claims to be able to rake in thousands with them through Onlyfans. Allie Rae, 39, made the switch from nursing to Onlyfans back in Sept 2020, with things really taking off after she began uploading videos she'd made with her husband. However, only recently did Allie realise the effect her "crazy bendy" thumbs had on some people, with her rare digits proving to be extremely lucrative. According to Allie, one man paid £4,074 ($5,000) for custom thumb snaps, and was so thrilled with them, that he ended up ordering another batch. After being inundated by thumb fans, Allie made an additional £6,326 ($8,000) from pics and vids of her rare thumbs posed on a steering wheel, or simply holding things. Former nurse Allie made the switch to Onlyfans in September 2020 ( Image: Allie Rae) Get the news you want straight to your inbox. Sign up for a Mirror newsletter here. She now claims to … [Read more...] about ‘I sell snaps of my thumbs for £4,000 on OnlyFans – people are going wild over them’

A study has revealed that over 35,000 girls in Belgium have either been victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) or are at risk of becoming victims, a number that has steadily increased in recent years. The figures come from a report presented by FPS Public Health and the Institute for the Equality of Women and Men and presented alongside Belgian Secretary of State for Gender Equality Sarah Schlitz, who revealed significant growth in those who are victims or at risk of being victims of FGM. A previous study from 2016 claimed that 17,575 women and girls were “mostly likely circumcised” while 8,342 were at risk of FGM. According to the figures, the number of victims and those at risk has steadily increased since records began in 2007, newspaper 7sur7 reports . Majority of Flemish Believe No Immigrants Can Be Truly Belgian https://t.co/ivc8ZSQUX2 — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 13, 2022 The women and girls most at risk tend to come from migrant … [Read more...] about Belgium: Over 35,000 Girls Either Victims or At Risk of FGM

Throughout her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II has traveled in the height of luxury, whether by land, sea or air. On June 30, the British royal household published its financial report for the year 2021-2022, giving a glimpse of how the monarch and the working members of her family get from A to B and how much it all costs. In total, over the last financial year the royals spent £4.5 million ($5.4 million) on travel , including the official tours undertaken by Prince Charles , Prince William and Kate Middleton , as well as some minor working royals. But how do the British royals travel and what methods do they have at their disposal? Newsweek has the answers. Helicopters One of the main methods of domestic travel for the queen and the working members of her family is by helicopter . Over her reign, the monarch has had a number of helicopters at her disposal with husband, Prince Philip, learning to fly the aircraft himself. The queen currently relies on two … [Read more...] about How the queen and royals travel in style: from helicopters to private jets

Commonwealth leaders are poised to oust the organisation’s secretary general Baroness Scotland on Friday in an extraordinary international spat. Britain has backed a bid to install Jamaica’s foreign minister Kamina Johnson Smith in the UK peer’s place at behind-closed doors talks in Rwanda. Each side accuses the other of a bitter briefing war over the Dominica-born Labour former attorney general, who has led the Secretariat for six years. It’s understood UK officials believe she has not provided effective and unified leadership, and the campaign to re-select her has been divisive with misinformation spread about her record. Sources also say she has racked up more than £600,000 in employment tribunal costs. A fresh row erupted today after it emerged a report on the Commonwealth Secretariat’s long-term finances was being withheld from its board. An ally of Patricia Scotland said she was the victim of a briefing war, adding: “It’s like trying to burn down the house and … [Read more...] about Commonwealth leaders could oust secretary general on Friday in explosive row