Officials from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched an investigation Thursday into two flights that arrived at Philadelphia International Airport with 12 passengers reporting feeling ill.

The sick passengers were arriving at the Philadelphia International Airport on American Airlines flights from Paris and Munich. It is reported that they were experiencing flu-like symptoms. The affected passengers reportedly were returning from pilgrimages to Mecca — as were passengers aboard a Wednesday Emirates flight to New York that was similarly quarantined.

Although only 12 travelers fell ill on the flights landing in Philadelphia, all 250 passengers, including flight staff, were held for a medical review, local Philadelphia station CBS3 reported. Many are currently in the process of being evaluated by officials from the CDC, Philadelphia Health Department and Philadelphia Fire Department. It's unclear what caused the passengers to suddenly become sick.

Fears of a highly infectious disease on a flight from Algeria saw authorities in Perpignan, France prevent passengers from disembarking the aircraft after a child displayed symptoms of cholera.

Wednesday’s ASL Airlines flight was surrounded by emergency medical experts within minutes of landing in France after a call was put out to ground staff about a passenger suffering from cholera. Flight F-GZTA had just completed its journey from Oran.

Passengers who were stuck on a quarantined Emirates flight at New York's John F Kennedy Airport with sick travelers are outraged staff didn't stop those who were ill from boarding the plane.

Several passengers spoke out on Wednesday slamming the airliner for not doing more to protect healthy travelers.

'It was obvious and audible that people were really sick,' said Erin Sykes, a fitness and health expert from Battery Park. 'What I heard was mostly coughing, very violent, violent, deep coughs, phlegm, just gross.'

Sykes said she noticed passengers were violently coughing while standing in line to board Flight 203 in Dubai, where it took off. The plane landed at JFK in Queens on Wednesday morning and was immediately quarantined after the pilot radioed that several passengers came down with an illness.

A company whose prescription opioid marketing practices are being blamed for sparking the addiction and overdose crisis says it's helping to fund an effort to make a lower-cost overdose antidote.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma announced Wednesday that it's making a $3.4 million grant to Harm Reduction Therapeutics, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit, to help develop a low-cost naloxone nasal spray.

The announcement comes as lawsuits from local governments blaming Purdue, based in Stamford, Connecticut, and other companies in the drug industry for using deceptive marketing practices to encourage heavy prescribing of the powerful and addictive painkillers. Last week, the number of lawsuits against the industry being overseen by a federal judge topped 1,000.

One of Alaska's largest and most active volcanoes is restless again, prompting scientists to issue an aviation advisory.

Alaska Volcano Observatory scientists increased the threat level of Mount Veniaminof from yellow to orange Tuesday.

That color designation indicates that sudden explosions could send ash above 20,000 feet (6,100 meters) and threaten international air planes.

The observatory's coordinating scientist, David Fee, says the 8,225-foot (2,500-meter) volcano became active Saturday.

Thirty more people have contracted Salmonella from eating Kellogg Co's Honey Smacks cereal, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed.

That brings the total number to 130 cases in 36 states - 34 of whom have been hospitalized.

Health officials had thought the outbreak, which started in March, was brought under control in June when they recalled 1.3 million cases of the cereal in affected states.

But now they are warning Americans, again, to avoid the product nationwide.

Lionfish, a colorful aquarium fish native to the South Pacific and Indian oceans, have become a serious problem in the Caribbean and western Atlantic. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) calls them the “poster child for invasive species.” With no predators outside of their native waters, the population is expanding at an astonishing rate, putting additional stress on coral reefs already struggling from the effects of climate change, pollution, and overfishing.

That’s why undergraduate students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) are building an autonomous underwater robot that could help reduce the threat posed by an invasive species. The lionfish, if unchecked by natural predators, threatens the well-being of coral reefs and other marine ecosystems in Coastal U.S. and Caribbean waters, including commercially and recreationally crucial native fish the region depends on.

Though Gordon is making the headlines, the next storm in the pipeline is Hurricane Florence, now spinning more than 2,000 miles out in the central Atlantic Ocean.

Florence became a hurricane Tuesday morning, the third hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic season.

Most computer models predict Florence will curve away from the U.S. and move harmlessly out to sea, but that isn't certain yet. Some impact on the U.S. "can’t be ruled out, but it’s unlikely,” University of Miami meteorologist Brian McNoldy told the Capital Weather Gang. “Bermuda should be paying close attention, though.”

Tropical Storm Gordon never became a hurricane but it was deadly all the same, killing a child by blowing a tree onto a mobile home as it made landfall. The storm later weakened into a depression on Wednesday but remained dangerous, dumping rain, spawning tornadoes and kicking up heavy surf in its wake.

Typhoon Jebi struck the heart of one of Japan's largest metro areas on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and shutting down Osaka's main international airport indefinitely, leaving close to 3,000 people trapped inside. The storm - the strongest on earth so far in 2018 - made landfall on Tuesday, bringing widespread flooding and winds of up to 130 miles an hour; it paralyzed swaths of the country shuttering shops, factories and amusement parks.

After a slow start to the year, the stock markets are running riot again and taking out new highs every few days. With valuations sky-high, it’s time for investors to consider putting some of their money into budding technologies that are potential hotcakes.

The research arm of investment banker Citigroup Inc. has recommended a group of technologies that it believes are at an inflection point of accelerated adoption. Some like anti-aging medicines or floating wind farms appear like they belong more to the realm of science fiction, yet, Citi says they could become a reality in a decade or even less.

Here’s a breakdown of some of the themes:

Passengers have been quarantined on board an Emirates airplane at JFK airport in New York, after 100 reportedly fell seriously ill during a flight from Dubai.

Emirates Flight 203 from Dubai arrived at 8:50 a.m. ET Wednesday with the pilot expressing concerns over dozens of passengers sick with fevers over 100 degrees and coughing, according to local reports.

The plane was met by officials from the Port Authority Police and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a staging area to check passengers.

Russia launched checks Tuesday after its space chief said an air leak on the International Space Station last week could have been deliberate sabotage.

Space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin said the hole detected Thursday in a Russian space craft docked at the orbiting station was caused by a drill and could have been done deliberately, either back on Earth or by astronauts in space.

Astronauts used tape to seal the leak after it caused a small loss of pressure that was not life-threatening.

"There were several attempts at drilling," Rogozin said late Monday in televised comments.

He added that the drill appeared to have been held by a "wavering hand."

On the morning of her final day of treatment, a pharmacy technician prepared the intravenous bag, filling it with more than 20 times the recommended dose of sodium chloride. Within hours Emily was on life support and declared brain dead.

Three days later she was gone.

Sadly, Emily's case is not unique. According to a recent study by Johns Hopkins, more than 250,000 people in the United States die every year because of medical mistakes, making it the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.

Other studies report much higher figures, claiming the number of deaths from medical error to be as high as 440,000. The reason for the discrepancy is that physicians, funeral directors, coroners and medical examiners rarely note on death certificates the human errors and system failures involved. Yet death certificates are what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rely on to post statistics for deaths nationwide.

What kind of food never spoils? You get one guess. That’s right – the kind you should never eat. So then why do you think most health food stores use canola oil mixed into nearly every packaged and jarred food on their shelves? The honest answer is they’re trying to make more money. Insects won’t go near canola oil – there’s a sign not to eat it right there. Its shelf life runs close to forever. Mix canola oil into salad dressings, mayonnaise, potato salad, macaroni salad, hummus, cereal, or corn chips and their shelf life extends almost indefinitely.

Plus canola oil is the cheapest “food” oil on the planet. Canola oil gets fancy, appealing labels too, like “expeller pressed” or even “certified organic,” but it wouldn’t really matter if you painted rapeseed hot pink and stamped it “grade A,” because it is what it is. Now let’s talk about what it does to the health of human beings who eat it regularly.

Potential tropical cyclone 7 will become a TS Gordon in the Gulf today as it moves AWAY from Florida. We are NOT expecting a wind threat around Tampa Bay, however our showers today could have gusty winds at times. Landfall Tue. pm LA, MS

We warned the Ugandan government that Ebola will enter in a certain region in the North East of Uganda under the disguise of so-called European proclamation that opposition armed forces will not allow WHO, UNHCR and Europe to interfere in the Ebola outbreak.

History of Ebola and Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Virus
Scientists studying viral disease agents in the laboratory for biowarfare purposes and cure against it have become infected in Russia, United States, Crimea, Tajikistan, Philippines, Germany, Former Yugoslavia, United Kingdom, Netherlands, South Africa many decades ago.

A similar accident with Ebola had reportedly occurred at the US Army’s biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, where the Ebola virus was invented, but the researcher involved didn’t acquire the disease. This incident is not listed on the CDC’s list of confirmed outbreaks, perhaps because the researcher didn’t develop antibodies.

Sitting on top of the pyramid with one eye on the stars, this corporate colossus casts a huge shadow in the land of the giants.

But like the majority of state-owned enterprises in the country, the monolithic China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation is shrouded in an aura of secrecy.

With 170,000 employees and annual revenue hovering around the US$34 billion-mark, CASC is one of the ‘big beasts’ of the SOE sector.

Ranked in the Fortune Global 500 list, its core business revolves around the nation’s space program and missile development. Yet its tentacles extend beyond that through a labyrinth of affiliates, which are at the heart of President Xi Jinping’s “Made in China 2025” policy.

Fermenting milk, for example, breaks down the lactose sugar into lactic acid. Cheese is low in lactose because it involves separating curd (from which cheese is made) from whey, in which the majority of the lactose sugars remain.

Clay sieves from Poland, similar to modern cheese sieves, have been found to have dairy lipids preserved in the pores of clay, suggesting that they were being used to separate curds from the whey.

Whether the curds were then consumed or attempts made to preserve them by pressing into a harder cheese is unknown. Fermentation of milk was also possible to our ancestors, but harder to explore with the techniques currently available to archaeology.

Russia’s contract with NASA to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) will expire in April next year, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov has said.

Under the current contract, American astronauts avail of seats on Russian Soyuz spacecraft in order to reach the ISS and return home. The US lost its capacity for manned space missions after the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, and is about to finalize a replacement in the form of a manned SpaceX Dragon capsule.

The cost of the ISS ferry service has varied over the years, with NASA paying about $81 million per seat in 2018, up from the cheapest price of $21.8 million in 2007 and 2008.

Alan Israel owes the people of Iowa $2 million but lives in a $1.3 million home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, the wealthiest suburb of Phoenix.

He has lived in Arizona for at least 30 years, though many of his business dealings — encompassing nursing homes, apartments and housing development — have been in Iowa.

His story, based on hundreds of filings in state and federal court, is about the intersection of commerce and health care in Iowa, and the profits that nursing homes can generate for owners whose primary business is real estate, not health care.

There are the two Keokuk nursing homes he allegedly used as a money-laundering operation, collecting $3 million in Medicaid overpayments while elderly residents complained they had been left to lay in their own urine.

It was a disaster that left wildlife lovers around the globe appalled and baffled.

Eleven of Kenya's precious black rhinos were transferred to a new home in what was supposed to be a routine operation in a country fabled for its conservation.

So how did all of them end up dead?

The primary cause of death, an official report found, was due to toxic levels of salt in the water of their sanctuary.

But an AFP investigation has found that the problem was well known and deep concerns were ignored.

Theresa May adopted an “everything or nothing” stance on the EU’s joint global navigation project.

The UK wants to remain a partner in the development of the European satellite navigation system Galileo, but will have to develop and build its own national counterpart if the EU refuses to change its mind, reports the Guardian, citing Prime Minister Theresa May.

Despite all the troubles negotiating Brexit trade deals with the EU, the Prime Minister threatened to spend $118 million on the initial scoping study for the British navigation system.

The New Horizons spacecraft is on its way to a distant solar system object and has spotted its destination — on its first try and from more than 100 million miles (170 million kilometers) away.

The spacecraft accomplished that feat on Aug. 16, sending a series of 48 images back to Earth. New Horizons is on its way to fly by a small icy Kuiper Belt object called and nicknamed Ultima Thule. These images, released by NASA yesterday (Aug. 28), show, on the left, the location of the object centered in the crosshairs and, on the right, the same image with stellar brightness subtracted out.

"We now have Ultima in our sights from much farther out than once thought possible," Alan Stern, the principal investigator for New Horizons and a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, said in a NASA statement. "We are on Ultima's doorstep, and an amazing exploration awaits!"

HAWAII has recently drawn the short straw with natural disasters, as hurricane season enters off the back of a major volcanic eruption. As Kilauea hits its lowest activity in recent years, has it stopped erupting?