Zika Virus: 3,100 Pregnant Women Are Infected

More than 3,100 pregnant women are infected with the Zika virus in Colombia, the country's president has said.

They are among the 25,645 cases reported nationwide so far, as the mosquito-borne disease continues to spread rapidly across the Americas.

Michigan ISIS Supporter ‘Tried to Shoot Up’ Church, FBI Says

Federal authorities have arrested a Michigan man they say is an ISIS supporter who wanted to carry out an attack on a 6,000-member Detroit church.

Khalil Abu-Rayyan, 21, of Dearborn Heights, allegedly had guns and a large knife and told an undercover FBI agent that he “tried to shoot up a church one day.”

“I bought a bunch of bullets. I practiced reloading and unloading,” he said in an online conversation, the FBI said.

Investigators did not specify which church Abu-Rayyan allegedly was eyeing, but said it has a capacity of 6,000 members, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in U.S. . .

Oxford fellowship for stars Cumberbatch and Emma Watson

 actor and Harry Potter star are among 11 non-academics who have accepted the appointments at Lady Margaret Hall.

Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant and film director Beeban Kidron have also accepted the fellowship role.

Visiting fellows are encouraged to attend debates and perform at the college in the three-year role.

College principal Alan Rusbridger said: "At a minimum we'd like them to drop in occasionally at college, eat with us and meet informally with a variety of the LMH community.

"We'd like them to do one thing a bit more structured: it could be a conversation or debate, a performance, a lecture or seminar, a form of outreach - or something we haven't thought of. 

"We can imagine fascinating interactions or collaborations between them."

Other appointees include Thames Valley Police chief constable Francis Habgood, former children's laureate Malorie Blackman and high court judge Rabinder Singh.

Roger Gower murder: 'Further arrests' over pilot's death in Tanzania

Roger Gower, 37, who was working for the Friedkin Conservation Fund, had been tracking elephant poachers.

The Fund said the arrests were the suspected gunman and others involved in the poaching operation, plus members of the criminal gang behind the illegal guns and ivory smuggling.

Further arrests were likely, it added.

Fund chairman Dan Friedkin said in a statement: "We are confident that the Tanzanian authorities will investigate and prosecute those involved to the absolute full extent of the law.

"By bringing these individuals to justice, it will honour Roger's memory. We also fervently hope that it will mark the turning point in Tanzania in the fight to protect elephants and our wildlife herit

Mr Gower was on a joint operation with the Tanzanian wildlife authorities to track down and arrest active elephant poachers when he came under fire on 29 January. Three elephant carcasses had been found in the area.

The incident happened in Maswa Game Reserve, which borders the Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania.

Mr Gower managed to land his helicopter but died from his wounds before he could be rescued.

Three people were arrested on 1 February.

Five Skiers Killed In Austrian Alps Avalanche

A police spokesman said the avalanche in the Tyrol region has buried 17 people.

Regional TV station ORF Tirol said it was 1.25 miles (2km) wide and 16ft (5 metres) high.

Authorities gave no immediate details on the conditions of the other casualties in the incident, which happened around noon local time in the Wattental Lizum region, around 25 miles (40km) southeast of Innsbruck in western Austria.

A search and rescue operation is under way, and it is unclear how many people are still missing.

Police earlier said some people were injured, while others were unharmed.

The entire skiing region has been on a level three avalanche alert - out of a maximum of five - and several avalanches have also been reported elsewhere.

The deaths follow a number of deadly snowslides in the French Alps this season.

Five soldiers from the French Foreign Legion died near the resort of Valfrejus on 18 January, with a sixth dying days later in hospital.

Two French teenagers and a Ukrainian tourist were killed on 14 January when a teacher took the students onto a closed skiing piste at the Deux-Alpes resort.

The teacher, who was seriously injured, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Driverless cars: London wants Google vehicle trials

Deputy Mayor for Transport Isabel Dedring said discussions were at an early stage but "we would be keen for trials to happen".

The battery-operated vehicles use a system of lasers, radar and cameras to detect objects around them in order to complete journeys.

Google is understood to be focused on testing only in the US at present.

The project, which began in 2009, has seen the vehicles clock up more than 1.4 million miles at test tracks in California and Texas.

At a future of transport event Ms Dedring said that while she was "personally a bit sceptical about the technology", driverless cars could makes roads safer and reduce transport costs.

This week Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin announced the government would invest £20m in driverless car projects in the UK, saying the technology would "profoundly change the way we travel within years".

Trials of the cars have not gone without problems with developers still trying to improve how the vehicles interact with other road users.

A report published by the California Department of Motor Vehicles detailed a collision with another car which left a Google test driver in hospital.

The Halftime Show That Changed the Super Bowl

The halftime show at Super Bowl 50 on Sunday will be as glitzy as fans have come to expect: Coldplay and Beyoncé are scheduled to perform, and there are sure to be surprise guests in store in Santa Clara, Calif.

It wasn’t always this way: Indeed, early halftime shows consisted of marching bands, dance troupes, or dated-even-then music medleys. One of those medleys, a 1992 tribute to the Winter Olympics, provided the halftime show with a major turning point: Fox counterprogrammed the show with a special episode of In Living Color, and drew away some 22 million viewers. The next year, the NFL hired one of the world’s biggest stars to perform — watch the above if you don’t know who.

High profile acts have led the halftime show ever since, and the slot tends now to get even more viewers than the game. Recent years have included superstars like Paul McCartney and Prince as well as popular younger acts like Bruno Mars and Katy Perry. Check out how the biggest stage in music was created.