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Tennessee cops mocked dying man's plea: 'I can't breathe'

A US jail inmate died gasping for breath minutes after police officers held him face down, with one taunting: "You shouldn't be able to breathe." New footage from the Tennessee facility shows how William Jennette, 48, was pinned down and tied a year ago. "Help me," he pleaded with other staff at Marshall County Jail in Lewisburg, "they're going to kill me." Asphyxia was listed as "a contributory cause of death" due to officers' use of the prone restraint. Mr Jennette's official post-mortem examination was ruled a homicide, with "acute combined drug intoxication" also listed by the medical examiner as a cause of death. The prone restraint was most recently under scrutiny in the police murder of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last year, 19 days after the death of Mr Jennette. The daughter of Mr Jennette, who was white, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit over law enforcement practices in the fath
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Einstein handwritten letter with equation fetches $1.2m

 A letter written by Albert Einstein containing his E=mc² equation has sold at auction in the US for more than $1.2m (£850,000) - three times more than had been expected. Experts say there are only three other known examples of the equation in the physicist's handwriting. The equation was first published in a scientific paper by Einstein in 1905. It explains the interchangeability of energy and mass. The equation - energy equals mass times the speed of light squared - is a fundamental concept in modern physics.     The man who made Einstein world-famous     New Einstein manuscripts unveiled This was the only example of the equation in a private collection and only became public recently, said Boston-based RR Auction, which sold the letter. Physicist Albert Einsteinimage copyrightBettmann via Getty image captionEinstein first published the equation in a scientific paper in 1905 "[It's] an important letter from both a holographic and a physics point of view," RR Auction
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Salmonella: CDC urges Americans not to kiss chickens amid outbreak

 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has urged people to refrain from kissing live poultry amid an outbreak of salmonella. The CDC and public health officials are investigating salmonella outbreaks after 163 people were reported ill in 43 states. The infections have been linked to contact with backyard poultry. "Don't kiss or snuggle the birds, as this can spread germs to your mouth and make you sick," the health agency said. It warned that poultry, like chicken and ducks, can carry salmonella germs even if they look healthy and clean, and these germs can easily spread in areas where they live and roam. Infection can cause fever, diarrhoea, stomach pain and vomiting. Most people recover without treatment, but more severe cases can cause death.     Three die in Danish salmonella outbreak     Chicken products recalled amid salmonella outbreak According to the CDC, one-third of the people reported ill in the recent outbreaks have been under the age of fiv
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