1. Nutmeg Four people fell ill, experiencing severe headaches and dizziness after eating an apple cake that was made from a recipe published in the August 2008 issue of the Swedish food...
Wylie, Texas: Not much ever happens around here. There has never been a homicide within the city limits, perhaps because it's impossible to buy hard liquor in this city or any of the surrounding places like Murphy,...
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10 people are dead and at least 67 more have fallen ill after conuming a local alcoholic brew in the Western Province of Sri Lanka." The people who had consumed this contaminated local brew of...
Un-naturally large swarms of jellyfish have invaded France's Cote d'Azur, and over 500 people have been stung.Protective anti-jellyfish nets are being used, but hundreds of thousands of them have made it into the...
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Did they ever make Arachnophobia 2? If not here's a real-life movie script in the making." SYDNEY, Australia - A tiny Australian hospital is closing temporarily because of an infestation of...
Our National Parks are wild, beautiful and all too often dangerous, especially for tourists with cameras. I have often seen people so caught up with recording their experience that they put themselves...
Opinion
Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
What I would like to know is, what the hell was this "Brainless Twit" thinking having a Pet Cobra? How was it allowed in Canada? Media do not state if it is meant for a...
Working for a firm importing classic American cars, Adam Morrison-Thomas is well-versed in handling exotic arrivals.
But not necessarily eight-legged ones that can kill with a single bite.
The encounter between the mechanic and the black widow spider began when he opened...
"Jatropha, an ugly, fast-growing and poisonous weed that has been used as a remedy for constipation, may someday power your car. The plant, resilient to pests and resistant to drought, produces seeds with up to 40...
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"Joost Hiltermann, is deputy program director for the Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group, based in Amman. Prior to that he was director of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch. His new book, A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of...
Opinion
Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
No Big Surprise here to Now Public Readers of my past reports.
This toothpaste is usually found in Dollar Store style outlets in the US and possibly Canada. In Canada...
Okay, so no Samuel L. Jackson, but lots and lots of snakes... "Customs officers at Cairo's airport have detained a man bound for Saudi Arabia who was trying to smuggle 700 live snakes on a plane, airport authorities...
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They're not giant spiders, though, so that's some silver lining. "A Natural History Museum expert has warned that global warming is giving invasive poisonous spiders the chance to thrive in Britain.
The false widow spider, Steatoda nobilis, was first recorded in the UK in...
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"Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin's final program is complete, but the
show about the sea's deadliest creatures will not include footage from
the day he was killed by a stingray, his manager said Saturday.Irwin
died Sept. 4, minutes after a poisonous barb from a stingray's...