An American company has offered its fleet of underwater drones to the Malaysia government in the search for the Malaysia Airlines jet, MH370. The jet went missing near Australia three years ago with 239 people on board.

Ocean Infinity's six autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), or drones, are capable of operating at 6,000 meters under water to collect high resolution data. The company advertises them as offering "seabed intelligence," and equipped with sonar equipment and capable of search "huge swathes of the seabed, quickly and with outstanding accuracy."

"The terms of the offer are confidential, but I can ... confirm that Ocean Infinity have offered to take on the economic risk of a renewed search,"the company said in an email to AP.

"We're in a constructive dialogue with the relevant authorities and are hopeful that the offer will be accepted," it added.

Spoof ads are appearing all around Google offices in California after the tech giant fired an engineer over a politically incorrect internal memo. A free speech protest has also been organized against Google over the controversy.

On Friday, a street artist who goes by the name Sabo took credit for plastering anti-Google fake ads just outside Google offices in Santa Monica and Venice, California.

In one of the ads, the classic Apple slogan, "Think different," is printed next to an image of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, while the words "not so much" are printed next to an image of Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Another ad features Google's iconic styling with the word "Goolag," a reference to Soviet labor camps, known as Gulags.

CCTV footage has been released showing a moped gang smashing a woman to the ground in London and robbing her of a £600 (US$775) necklace while cars drive past without stopping.

The 52-year-old woman was standing outside a Hindu temple in Lewisham, south London, when she was attacked by a man wearing a crash helmet.

The shocking video, taken from cameras overlooking the temple, shows the attacker approaching her, throwing her to the ground and violently pulling the necklace off her body while she desperately clings to her handbag.

Aleppo, a city retaken by Damascus from rebels in December last year, has become a major destination for displaced Syrians returning home in 2017 as numbers of returnees to Syria spills over 600,000, according to the UN.

Over the first seven months of 2017, over 600,000 displaced Syrians returned home, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday, citing its own figures as well as those of the UN Migration Agency and partners on the ground. The returnees are overwhelmingly internally-displaced people, but 16 percent returned to Syria from other nations, primarily Turkey. The number almost matched that recorded in the whole of 2016.

An estimated 67 percent of returnees went to government-controlled Aleppo Governorate, with the provincial capital itself being the primary destination. Among other places where refugees went in significant numbers, according to ICO, is Al-Hasakah Governorate, the north-eastern province dominated by Kurds.

Stanford University will introduce a course this fall which will task students with considering "abolishing whiteness" and the ultimate goal of understanding "what is the future of whiteness," according to the institution's course catalog.

The course, which is entitled "White Identity Politics," will be taught by instructor John Patrick Moran, and analyze the "future of whiteness." For the uninitiated, the concept of "whiteness" refers to the social aspect of race. According to the University of Calgary, "whiteness" is a socially and politically constructed learned behavior built upon the systematic privileges afforded to whites in Western society.

The Stanford course looks to abolish this social concept of "whiteness" through an analysis of what the course description alleges is "the rise of white identity politics in the United States" as a result of the 2016 Presidential election. Stanford Professor Tomás Jiménez explained that "whiteness" refers to "the set of behaviors and outlooks associated with the racial category, white."

Russian police have detained 'terrorists' who planned to crash two express trains together and drive a truck packed with explosives into a celebration attended by Vladimir Putin.

They were aiming to disrupt the Confederations Cup tournament last month, a precursor to the FIFA World Cup hosted by the Russian President next year, it is believed.

Police say an alleged jihadist cell tried to target a high speed rail line used by Russia's Sapsan 'bullet' trains at Farforovskaya railway station close to St Petersburg, Putin's home city. But the plot was foiled and police have released video of arrests being made (See here.)

James Damore will go down as one of the heroes of the MAGA movement. His plan to entrap Google was perfectly laid and like good SJLs - Social Justice Lemmings - the powers that be at Google fired him for doing nothing more than expressing an opinion.

That his opinion was outside of Google's cultural norm is irrelevant. Google made an enormous mistake, firing Damore before realizing the long-term ramifications of their act.

No way did Damore not know exactly what he was doing by circulating his now famous ten-page memo about Google's stifling culture. He did and he's pursuing the next logical step, legal action.

Regardless of whether a court finds in his favor or not, Google's reputation as an employer and as a service provider is now permanently tarnished. In their ideological fervor to stamp out all Wrong-think they provided us with prima facia evidence of their commitment to ideological excellence over operational excellence.

Stockholders should be selling on this news. This is a company that has already opened itself up to multiple shareholder lawsuits for selectively demonetizing sites its management is ideologically opposed to.

As is often the case, most people wait until the last minute to prepare for the worst.

As reported by CBS Detroit, one Army Surplus store owner reports that preparedness equipment is flying off the shelves:

"We've been very busy. Unusually busy, I'd say," Orr told WWJ's Sandra McNeill. "It's definitely an increase, just in selling all the normal prepper stuff, end of the world stuff. A lot of water prep stuff, food, MREs - the military meals."

And there's been a substantial increase in the sale of a particular item they don't sell much of - a so-called radiation antidote called potassium iodide.

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"It actually stops your thyroid from absorbing any radiation. So, it fills your thyroid with iodine, which it normally does anyways," said Orr.

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Another popular request: gas masks. But most people looking for those will be out of luck.

"Gas masks are a big thing too, but we only sell them as novelty," said Orr.

A man has been jailed for at least 20 years for the murder of his brother and attempted murder of his brother's girlfriend by setting fire to them on New Year's Day.

Blair Logan, 27, poured petrol on his younger brother Cameron, 23, while he slept next to girlfriend Rebecca Williams at their family home in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire.

Ms Williams was rescued from the fire and treated in hospital, while Logan's parents were treated for smoke inhalation.

Logan, 27, pleaded guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder last month after admitting to pouring petrol 'with the intention of maiming or crippling' Cameron, but claimed he did not mean to kill him.

The attack was said to be in retaliation for a recent incident at the house when his brother had punched him.

Yisrael Kristal, a Holocaust survivor who was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the world's oldest man and one of the ten oldest men who ever lived, passed away today in his home in Haifa. He was one month shy of his 114th birthday.

He was born in Maleniec, Poland, on September 15, 1903. His father was a Torah scholar, and Yisrael was sent to the Cheder when he was three, to follow in his father's footsteps. Life had other plans: His mother died in 1910, and in 1914, when Yisrael was 11, World War I broke out. When Kaiser Franz Joseph drove through the streets of his town in a car, throwing sweets and waving at the children, Kristal was there to wave back. His father, however, was soon recruited by the army and died in the war.

Moving to Lodz when he was 17, Kristal found work in a candy factory, and soon proved himself as an expert candy-maker. He married Chaja Feige Frucht in 1928, and had two daughters. He continued to manufacture candy, sometime secretly, even after the Nazis took over and forced all of Lodz's Jews into the ghetto. Both of his children perished there. In 1944, when the ghetto was liquidated, Kristal and his wife were both deported to Auschwitz. Chaja Feige died shortly thereafter, but Yisrael survived, working as a forced laborer. When the Red Army liberated him, he thanked the Soviet soldiers by making them candy. He returned to Lodz, rebuilt his old candy shop, and met another woman, Batsheva, who he married in 1947. The couple had a son, Chaim, and a daughter, Shula.