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THIS is the terrifying moment a huge mushroom cloud of flames erupts just yards away from busy apartment blocks in Kenya. Horrified residents were forced to flee from their homes as several people were reportedly rushed to hospital with serious injuries. 7The huge mushroom cloud over apartment blocks in KenyaCredit: Twitter 7Firefighters watched the fire as it took over the sky late into the nightCredit: EPA 7The fire ripped through EmbakasiCredit: EPA A set of explosions were thought to have started after a gas leak that caused the massive inferno and quickly took over the surrounding area. Clouds of black…

THE future is set to see RoboCop-type police on the streets. A German firm have unveiled a menacing lightweight protective suit able to withstand bullets. 4The suit is designed to provide high-level ballistic protectionCredit: Mehler 4Suit was developed with France’s elite police tactical unit Mehler Protection say they’ve developed the ExoM Up-Armoured Exoskeleton with the GIGN, the elite police tactical unit of the National Gendarmerie of France. The SAS-like GIGN are involved in missions that may include counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and targeting organised crime. The suit has been designed to enhance survivability by providing high-level ballistic protection, and to cater…

VENDING machines with free STI tests could help tackle soaring infection levels, a study suggests. Offering kits in the machines helped drive uptake, particularly in young people and those “who find current methods inaccessible”, British researchers found. 1Vending machines offering free STI tests could tackle soaring rates of illnesses like gonorrhoea (pictured), a study suggestsCredit: Getty The machines could become a “piece of a much bigger jigsaw” to improve HIV and sexually transmitted infection testing rates in the UK, experts said. Dr Syra Dhillon, of Whittington Health NHS Trust, who lead the study, said the vending machines were a “great…

A GRAFFITI gang has tagged 27 floors of a $1 billion US skyscraper after it was abandoned by developers. The construction of the three towers was stalled in 2019 amid questions over whether the company had the funds to continue. 4The three 40-storey towers were part of a luxury estate developmentCredit: Edvard Pettersson/Bloomberg 4The construction was halted in 2019 after the developer suffered financial troublesCredit: TikTok 427-storeys of the two buildings were seen with graffiti tags all over themCredit: TikTok The high-rise buildings have been left to sit idle for five years. The taggers took it as an opportunity to…

THERE are many tips to boost your iPhone battery but turning off things like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth won’t make a difference. Some hacks are simply a myth and are just wasting your time. 1Leave the Wi-Fi onCredit: Getty And others can actually do quite the opposite, draining your power sooner. Here are some you may have heard previously that won’t make a bit of difference, according to iDropNews. Switching off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Wi-Fi is a low energy consumer on your iPhone, as is Bluetooth. In fact, your device will use up more battery from 4G and 5G than Wi-Fi,…

OH if only getting better sleep was as simple as drinking a potion. Well, that’s what TikTokers are currently claiming – the ‘sleepy girl mocktail’ is receiving good reviews, and so I had to give it a try. 3I tried the sleepy girl mocktail for a week, taking it around half an hour before sleepCredit: The Sun 3The mocktail is made with tart cherry juiceCredit: Shutterstock 3The ingredients are tart cherry juice, magnesium powder and sparkling water or soda waterCredit: The Sun But not just for one night… I gave the sleep aid a thorough week-long review.  As a health…

A LUXURIOUS cruise ship that was once part of the esteemed Fantasy fleet is now counting down her last days before being dismantled. While the glory days of Carnival Inspiration are well in the past, the shipwreck of the once-lavish £240million cruise liner still looks fascinating. 7The mammoth Carnival Inspiration could hold up to 2,500 passengers along with 920 crew membersCredit: Wikipedia 7The abandoned and trashed cruise is now counting down her last days before she gets dismantledCredit: Bob Thissen 7The luxury £240million cruise ship was once a bustling ship beloved by holidaymakersCredit: Reddit Built during the ’90s at the Helsinki…

ELON MUSK’S Starship mega-rocket has been selected to launch a new private space station that intends to replace the ISS. “SpaceX’s history of success and reliability led our team to select Starship to orbit Starlab,” Dylan Taylor, chairman and CEO of Voyager Space, said in a statement. 3It’s unclear when the team behind the Starlab project plan to launch the orbital outpost 3Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X, formerly known as Twitter “SpaceX is the unmatched leader for high-cadence launches, and we are proud Starlab will be launched to orbit in a single flight…

A BIZARRE new penis-lengthening ‘hack’ could actually make your member smaller, doctors have warned. The trend, known as ‘jelqing’, involves pulling and stretching the penis while semi-erect in the hope that, over time, it will grow. 3Jelqing practice puts men at risk of Peyronie’s DiseaseCredit: Don Bayley 3If you want to add extra inches down there, you should speak to a GP about the options available The idea is that each hand movement slowly rips the delicate tissue and will later form scar tissue that makes it look more swollen, and therefore, bigger. But the supposedly ‘ancient’ practice puts men…

THE Royal Navy is due to test fire a nuclear weapon within days. Officials issued a warning to shipping as nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard sailed into the Atlantic this week. 5Trident II D5 missile pictured in 2005Credit: Crown Copyright 5British Royal Navy submarine HMS Vengeance, the fourth and final Vanguard-class submarineCredit: EPA 5 It is the first time the UK has test fired a missile since a botched launch in 2016. And it follows a drumbeat of warnings that the world is careering to World War Three. The Sun understands the £4bn sub is scheduled to test fire an unarmed…