Category: deadly

Study: Video Games Can Be Lethal for Children With Heart Conditions

A new study by the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network has found that electronic gaming can be deadly for children with heart conditions. The study, published Oct. 10 in the journal Heart Rhythm,  revealed that playing video games can cause life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia—an irregular heartbeat—in susceptible children, who may have an undiagnosed heart condition. Australian researchers reviewed 69…


Superman: The Magnetic Telescope (1942)

When police interfere with a reckless scientist’s experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media:…


Trial Is Ordered for 59 in Deadly Collapse of Genoa Bridge

ROME—A judge in Genoa on Thursday ordered all 59 defendants to stand trial for the deadly 2018 collapse of a heavily used highway bridge in that Italian port city which sent cars and trucks plunging into the dry riverbed below. Forty-three people were killed when a large section of the Morandi Bridge broke off during…


‘Not Getting on a Plane Any Time Soon’: Deportation Decision Delayed in Broncos Case

CALGARY—A decision on whether a former truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash should be deported to India likely won’t be coming until the new year. A lawyer for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, 33, had sent a voluminous amount of paperwork to the Canada Border Services Agency earlier this year arguing why he…


Israeli Probe Into Deadly Holy Site Stampede Opens Hearings

JERUSALEM—An Israeli government commission investigating a deadly accident at a Jewish pilgrimage site in April held its first day of hearings Sunday, almost four months after the stampede at Mount Meron left 45 people dead. The April 29 incident at the Jewish festival in northern Israel was the deadliest civilian disaster in the country’s history….


Deadly Crash Began When Tractor-Trailer Hit Vehicles: Report

MONTGOMERY, Ala.—A crash that killed 10 people—including nine children—on a rain-slicked Alabama interstate happened after a tractor-trailer truck slammed into vehicles that had slowed down because of minor crashes, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday. The National Highway Safety Board’s initial findings on the fiery June 19 crash that involved 12 vehicles present a…


French Authorities Detain 5 Amid Terrorism Investigation of Deadly Police Station Attack

PARIS—French authorities detained a fifth person Sunday in a terrorism investigation seeking to identify potential accomplices and motives after a police official was fatally stabbed at a police station outside Paris. French police killed the 37-year-old Tunisian attacker shortly after he stabbed the unarmed administrative employee on Friday at the entrance of her police station…


UK Variant Up to Twice as Deadly: Study

The so-called UK variant of COVID-19 is up to twice as deadly as the regular variant, according to research published today in the British Medical Journal. That estimate is higher than those from previous studies into the variant of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus. In a sample of…


UK COVID-19 Variant Could Be More Deadly: Study

Scientific advisers to the British government believe the COVID-19 variant first detected in the United Kingdom could be deadlier than previous variants. The variant, known as B.1.1.7, “is associated with an increased risk of hospitalization and death compared to infection” with the original strain of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the…