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A latest report has backed up Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to ban fracking. It has given details about a wide range of environmental dangers.

Earth justice managing attorney Deborah Goldberg said the Department of Environmental Conservation report has mentioned about a long list of potential dangers from fracking operations, involving blasting millions of gallons of water mixed with hazardous chemicals into the ground.

She said the report has linked earthquakes, bad water and air quality, and risks to our communities to fracking. She added that there really wasn’t any environmental parameter that was not severely affected by fracking.

Industry officials have maintained that the process was safe, and may file suit if the report is accepted.

In a second security breach within two years, the world’s largest retailer of professional beauty supplies, Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc, confirmed that there had been suspicious activity pertaining to payment cards at some of its US locations.

Sally Beauty had a vast chain of customers and retailers. Currently, its products are available at 4,900 stores, which include 200 franchised units, in the US, UK, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Peru, France, the Netherlands, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Ireland, Spain and Germany.

All that fizz will now disappear from the kids menu. In response to the increasing concerns of the parents, the Minneapolis-based fast food chain, Dairy Queen (DQ), is removing soft drinks from kids’ menus, beginning September 1, as the new menu board panels arrive at franchise locations.

According to the statement from the Washington-based Centre for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Dairy Queen would now become yet another restaurant chain to take soda off the kids menu. Already, chains like McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, Chipotle and Subway have either stopped suggesting soda or removed them from their children's menus altogether.

Shares of Avon Products Inc have gone up as much as 20% after an apparently non-existent firm incorporated in a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean has offered to buy the cosmetics company for around three times its market value.

In an official statement, Avon said that it had not received any such offer.

On Thursday, the purported acquirer said in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it would pay $18.75 per share for Avon. The purported acquirer identified itself as PTG Capital Partners.

Shares of Avon peaked at $8 and have ended up 6% at $7.07 even after a number of traders have doubted the veracity of the offer. After news of the filing broke, about 69.5 million shares changed hands on the stock's busiest day since March 20.

According to a NASA study, the last unbroken section of one of Antarctica’s mammoth ice shelves is quickly disintegrating and in the next few years, it could disintegrate totally and will lead to further increase in sea levels. The study was concentrated on a remnant of the Larsen B Ice Shelf that has been present for at least 10,000 years, however disintegrated partly in 2002. The remaining part covers nearly 625 square miles (1,600 square kilometres), nearly half the size of Rhode Island.

A NASA space telescope detected strange signals that could find out the reason behind the existence of matter in the universe. High-energy light has been detected by the Fermi space telescope. According to scientists, these signals could give information regarding a magnetic field that was present shortly after the big bang. The nature of these gamma rays could tell that more matter is present in the universe compared to anti-matter and may also reveal that why it existed.

According to scientists, the universe consisted of as much anti-matter in it as it had matter. Now there is much less antimatter present, but scientists are not yet clear that how matter dominated the universe.