Incredible drone pictures emerge laying bare the huge scene of devastation at Chinese warehouse - as it emerges amount of cyanide on site may have been 70 times the legal amount

Several hundreds of tonnes of highly poisonous cyanide were being stored at the warehouse devastated by two giant explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin earlier this week, a senior military officer said Sunday.

According to earlier reports, 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide had been stored at the warehouse, an amount which is 70 times what is permitted.

The official government confirmation of the presence of cyanide at the site of the blasts came as then number of casualties continues to spiral, with 112 confirmed dead on Sunday morning. 

Disaster: Several hundred tonnes of cyanide were kept at the warehouse devastated by giant explosions in Tianjin, China on Wednesday

Don't carry things for strangers at airports. Drug smugglers now use different tricks (photos)

In a 15 seconds video, security experts revealed drugs hidden inside an Aquafina bottled water. When you first look at the bottle, it looks clean, like it's just water, until you shake and open. It's a trick drug dealers now use. Be warned. I screen-grabbed from the video. More photos after the cut...

Victim's lucky escape helped her to convict a serial killer who confessed to 50 rapes

Serial killer Bobby Joe Long and survivor Lisa McVey aged 17

When Lisa McVey, 17, was abducted and assaulted in 1984, she thought she was going to die. But her lucky escape helped police put serial killer Bobby Joe Long behind bars

During the mid 1980s, Florida’s Tampa strip was torn apart by a sadistic killer who was fuelled by his hatred of women.

Back then, the downtown area in the Sunshine State had a reputation for coming alive at night with strip bars. But as the killer left a trail of bodies in his wake, locals became nervous about going out after dark.

On the night of 3 November 1984, Lisa McVey, then 17, was riding her bike home after a double shift at a doughnut shop.

Fugitive radical Sunni preacher attempted to enter Nigeria through Cairo

According to reports, fugitive Sunni preacher, Ahmed al-Assir was trying to leave Lebanon to Nigeria through Cairo using fake Palestinian travel documents. Above is a photo of him as he was arrested by Lebanese authorities at Beirut International Airport, Lebanon.

The militant cleric had been on the run since June 2013, after he and his supporters engaged in a deadly two-day battle with the Lebanese army in the southern city of Sidon. He is being accused of having formed armed groups that attacked an institution of the state, the army, killed officers and soldiers, took explosive materials and light and heavy weapons and used them against the army.

A new enzyme that eats up nicotine in the bloodstream could help smokers quit

In the struggle to help people give up cigarettes, scientists have tried everything from slow-release nicotine patches and gums to nicotine vaccines. But now researchers in the US have found a bacterial enzyme that devours nicotine in the bloodstream, and it could be the tool that helps people quit for good. 

David Beckham is now second on the list of the world's highest earning former athletes - but who's No.1?

Michael Jordan has been revealed as the world's highest earning former athlete.

The basketball legend retired (for the final time) 12 years ago, but that hasn't diminished his earning power.

Jordan pocketed $100million (£63.9m) in 2014 from commercial deals, largely involving sportswear giant Nike.

In a recent court case it was revealed that Jordan received $480m (£306.8m) from Nike between 2000 and 2012.

Bill Maher and activist/musician Talib Kweli discuss the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Hip hop artist and activist Talib Kweli defended protesters Mara Jacqueline Willaford and Marissa Johnson during a conversation withBill Maher on HBO’s Real Time, saying that “the job of activism is not to be liked, not to be polite.”

Maher and Kweli were discussing the actions of Willaford and Johnson, who had taken over a rally for Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders in an attempt to draw attention to the Black Lives Matter movement. Maher pointed out that Sanders has a strong record for civil rights and that therefore he might not have been the proper target for the protesters. But Kweli countered, saying that Sanders “is somebody who — just because someone has a record of civil rights doesn’t mean they are automatically entitled to the black vote.”