Most people would struggle to imagine a human voice being loud enough to rival the roar of a jet engine, but that is exactly what Australian town crier Joseph McGrail-Bateup has achieved. The 58-year-old from Canberra recently set the Guinness World Record for the loudest shout by a male after reaching an astonishing 122.4 decibels,…

A German court has sentenced a Saudi psychiatrist to life in prison for driving a car into a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing six people, including a nine-year-old boy, and injuring hundreds in one of the country’s deadliest attacks in recent years.The attack took place on December 20, 2024, when the man, identified…

Pygmy Sperm Whale’s Deep Dive (AI-generated image) Pygmy sperm whales are among the least studied large mammals in the ocean, spending nearly their entire lives far offshore, diving deep to hunt squid and fish, and rarely surfacing long enough to be observed alive. Most of what scientists know about the species comes instead from whales…

Hamam al-Hammami, the accused co-pilot in the flydubai incident (Image source: LinkedIn) Hamam al-Hammami, the Omani co-pilot accused of stabbing Captain Smit Machchhar and attempting to crash a flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv, had already come to the attention of authorities for his radical extremist tendencies. Despite this he was cleared to fly to…