Michelle Butterfield

1 week ago | globalnews.ca | Michelle Butterfield

Move over, snakes. There's a new animal terrorizing flight passengers - and this time they have wings. A Delta Air Lines flight got off to a very chaotic start last Saturday, when not one, but two pigeons inside the plane's cabin caused brief pandemonium among the passengers. The flight, which was bound for Wisconsin from Minneapolis over the Memorial Day weekend, hadn't even pulled back from the gate, when a fowl friend decided to make itself known.

1 week ago | globalnews.ca | Michelle Butterfield

Elon Musk says he is "disappointed" by the centerpiece of U.S. President Donald Trump's legislative agenda, criticizing the so-called "big, beautiful" bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives last week, saying it "undermines" the work he put into help cut government spending.

1 week ago | globalnews.ca | Michelle Butterfield

A Florida charter boat captain is looking at both jail time and a hefty fine for poisoning and shooting dolphins. Zackery Brandon Barfield, a 31-year-old fishing boat operator, was sentenced to 30 days in prison and ordered to pay a US$51,000 fine after a court found him guilty of three counts of poisoning and shooting the animals from his boat.

1 week ago | globalnews.ca | Michelle Butterfield

Gold, hidden deep within the Earth's core, is making its way to the surface of our planet, leaking through the mantle and into the crust, scientists have found. A new study out of Germany, examining isotopes found in volcanic rock that has oozed from Earth's deepest reaches, has found that precious metals are abundant in the core.

1 week ago | globalnews.ca | Michelle Butterfield

The search for a missing 17-year-old Australian girl has taken a grim turn as police have deployed cadaver dogs to scour a national park on the island continent. Pheobe Bishop vanished earlier this month after she was dropped off at Bundaberg Airport on May 15 to catch an early morning flight to Brisbane. She never checked in with the airline. She has not been seen or heard from since and, according to the Australian Associated Press, she wasn't picked up on CCTV entering the airport terminal.