On 14 July 2004, John Henry Ramirez stabbed convenience store worker Pablo Castro 29 times in Corpus Christi, Texas. In 2008, Ramirez was convicted of the murder and put on death row.

According to The Texas Tribune, his lawyers attempted to stop his execution twice by filing motions to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and Nueces County’s state district attorney – but both were denied.

Ramirez was executed via lethal injection on 3 October 2022, with a few of Castro’s children and his daughter-in-law all in attendance.

Oscar-nominated short film I Am Ready, Warden follows the lead up to Ramirez’s death row execution and the impact it had on Castro’s son Aaron.

“He was just trying to survive. Ramirez took him away from us, and for that he needed to be executed.

“Boom. Justice. Closure. The dark cloud would clear.”

However, that’s not how it turned out, as just hours before his execution, Aaron had a change of heart and realised he ‘didn’t need to see it’.

“There was no more need to be there,” he said when Ramirez was finally executed. “A life was lost today, taken too soon just as it was when I was 14. I’m not going to celebrate. This isn’t a moment to celebrate.

“The shock that it actually happened was just mind-blowing. The dark cloud didn’t clear, it was still there. I didn’t magically feel better.”

Aaron came to the realisation that ‘no human being should be in charge of taking the life of another’.

Documentary maker Smriti Mundhra said she wanted to make the film ‘from the perspective of someone who actually had committed a crime’.

She said: “In the intervening years, in their time on death row, how does a person change? Are they the same person as the one who committed the crime?”

John Henry Ramirez was executed in 2022 (MTV)

Mundhra explained that it took a lot of convincing to get Aaron to take part in the documentary, adding: “It was only in the last days leading up to the execution, after many months of trust building between Aaron and me, that he agreed to participate.”

When Ramirez’s death was announced on the radio, reporter Keri Blakinger added: “Everything that I’ve ever covered about the death penalty has been filtered through the lens of my words.

“And here we have the raw images of Aaron’s physical reaction as he processes the execution, which as a reporter working with words I could never do.”

In his final words, Ramirez apologised to Castro’s family and expressed ‘regret’ for his actions, adding: “I just want to say to the family of Pablo Castro, I appreciate everything that y’all did to try and communicate with me through the victim’s advocacy program.

“I hope this finds you comfort. If this helps you then I am glad. I hope in some shape or form this helps you find closure.”

The world’s tallest mountain at 8,848.86 meters (29,031.7 feet) has long been a symbol of extreme human endurance.

Sadly, however, its formidable conditions, freezing temperatures and low oxygen levels have led to many deaths.

As shown in a map by Pointofnoreturn.org, over 330 people have died attempting to reach the summit since records began in 1921.

Oxygen levels are only about one-third of what they should be normally, which often leads to altitude sickness, hypoxia and death.

“Mapping Everest’s death toll reveals clear danger zones: the treacherous Khumbu Icefall, the sheer Lhotse Face, and the notorious Hillary Step just before the summit,” the Mount Everest Official Instagram account, which shared the map, said.

“Historical data shows that casualties skyrocketed in the 1970s as more climbers attempted the ascent, with deaths now concentrated near the summit.

“Sherpas, who are better adapted to high altitudes, tend to die at lower elevations, while foreign climbers are more likely to perish near the peak.”

Despite the dangers, over 7,200 people have climbed Everest and reached the summit, at least once.

Shaunna Burke, a climber who summited Everest in 2005, previously opened up about the ‘death zone’ and how she managed to get through it.

She told Business Insider: “Your body is breaking down and essentially dying.

“It becomes a race against the clock.

“Every second or third breath your body gasps for air, and you wake yourself up.”

Climbing Everest can prove fatal (Getty Stock Images)

Meanwhile, Sir Edmund Hillary, known as the first person to climb Everest in 1953, with Tenzing Norgay, has previously complained about the lack of help offered by other climbers.

He told the New Zealand Herald: “If you have someone who is in great need and you are still strong and energetic, then you have a duty, really, to give all you can to get the man down and getting to the summit becomes very secondary.

“I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mt Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don’t give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn’t impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.”

The asteroid, named ‘2024 YR4’, has caught the space agency’s ‘attention’ after it was discovered by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile on 27 December, last year.

Here’s what could happen if 2024 YR4 – estimated to be 130 to 330 feet (40 to 100 metres) across – collided with Earth:

As things stand, the rock is moving away from Earth at around 8.24 miles per second (13.26 kilometers per second), and is almost 27 million miles away.

And NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies says that 2024 YR4 has the potential to collide with our planet on six separate times between 2032 and 2071.

Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Centre for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), has given the asteroid a 1.2 percent probability of hitting Earth in 2032.

“We are not worried at all, because of this 99 percent chance it will miss,” he said. “But it deserves attention.”

Now, the simulation video by MetaBallStudios’ Alvaro Gracia Montoya, shows what could happen if the asteroid hit planet Earth – and it’s pretty terrifying.

What happens if 2024 YR4 collides with Earth?

Given that it has enough power to destroy a whole city, the 3D animator said: “I don’t think it’s going to happen, but certainly this kind of news generates a lot of speculation.”

For context, the eight-megaton explosion could quite possibly be 500 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, with the energy released being the equivalent to eight megatons of TNT.

Although asteroid hunter David Rankin has told Space.com that ‘people should absolutely not worry about this yet’.

2024 YR4 has the power to wipe out an entire city (SWNS)

“Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us,” he added.

“Size and composition are big players in possible damage, along with impact location.”

Currently, the asteroid’s ‘risk corridor’ – the most likely geographical area it could impact – is from South America across the Atlantic Ocean to sub-Saharan Africa.

What we could do to protect the planet in event of a strike?

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission proved to be a success in 2022, as they intentionally managed to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid as method of deflection.

Hopefully we can just do that again?

Dubbed the ‘Garden of Europe’, Brits are flocking to a little-known Spanish city, where pints are just €2 and it’s 24 degrees in February.

Where is this magical place, you ask? We’re talking about Murcia, of course. Situated between Alicante and Certagena, Murcia is renowned for its idyllic Spanish coastline and more than 300 days of sunshine a year. Must be nice.

There’s plenty to do if you’ve had enough of laying on the beach too with some of the most incredible cycling and kayaking routes in Spain on offer. If sightseeing is your thing, then keep you eyes peeled for one the most talked about attractions, the Christ of Monteagudo – a statue of Jesus located on top of the Castle of Monteagudo.

If you’re a keen swimmer, then there’s also Cabo de Palos nearby, a picturesque peninsula known for its scuba diving.

From where to eat and drink in the Spanish city to how to book cheap flights from the UK this winter, find out everything you need to know about Murcia below.

Where to eat and drink in Murcia

Los Zagales is a no-frills approach to the traditional dish whilst La Tapa and La Esquina de las Flores are also worth chucking on your list.

You can wash it all down with a nice, cold pint too. You’re looking at around €2 (£1.65) for a large beer (500ml) in Murcia – just make sure to choose a local joint.

Getty/Nico De Pasquale Photography

How to book cheap flights to Murcia this winter

If you’re keen to escape to warmer climates, then you can bag a flight for only £36. You’ll need to pack your bags and set your alarm early, as the cheapest deal on offer leaves London Stansted via Jet2 at 6am on Saturday, 22 February and arrives at Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport at the local time of 9.40am.

If you’re up north, then you’ll save a bit of dosh. The cheapest flight we could find leaves Manchester Airport at 4.05pm on Monday, 24 February and costs £32. Those in Edinburgh will have to pay a little extra, as the most affordable flight we could find is at 6.10am on Tuesday, 25 February and costs £53. Catch you there?

If your parents did you royally dirty, you do have the option of legally changing it – or you could simply tweak your title like a ton of famous faces did after joining the showbiz world.

But this woman was seriously considering going by something else after experiencing years of ‘torment’ from people taking the p*ss out of her name.

It doesn’t take a genius to work out why she holds the online retailer, founded by Jeff Bezos, responsible for being teased.

But if the penny hasn’t dropped, it’s because the ‘virtual assistant’ device which Amazon put on the market in 2014 shares the same name as her.

The technology took the world by storm and every man and his dog has one in their home these days – but its popularity has been a huge pain for Nizam.

In an article for Business Insider shared last year, she explained that she ‘loved’ her name growing up, but that all changed when the gadget was launched over a decade ago.

“At first, the references were subtle,” Nizam explained. “While they should have gone with something more obscure, it hadn’t really affected me. I was so naïve.”

She says she’s heard every possible Alexa joke under the sun over the years, but revealed she really had a target on her back when working at a department store in 2018.

Nizam continued: “Within a few years, the mentions really picked up. At least once a day, a customer would make fun of my name. ‘What’s the weather today, Alexa?’

“‘What time is it, Alexa?’ Some would even say things like, ‘I bet you get those jokes all the time,’ as if they weren’t part of the onslaught themselves.”

She explained that she ‘couldn’t go a few hours’ without someone cracking a joke about her name – and it only got worse when the ‘Alexa, play Despacito’ meme came about.

Nizam said: “That cultural moment was the peak of my torment: I couldn’t introduce myself to anyone without having a dreaded Amazon moment.”

However, sharing the same name as Amazon’s gadget did allow her to come up with a good pun to write on her cap at her college graduation ceremony.

She went on: “I’d gone to college in Texas and planned to move back to my hometown of Los Angeles, so I decorated my grad cap to say, ‘Alexa, play ‘Going Back to Cali’.

“It felt like my one tiny win – if I had to be subjected to bad jokes for the better part of a decade, at least I could own the narrative for a brief, shining moment.”

She’s heard every ‘Alexa’ joke you can imagine over the years (Getty Stock Photo)

Still, her first name caused chaos throughout her daily life – especially during the pandemic, when everyone was constantly on Zoom calls.

According to Nizam, any mention of her name on one of these calls resulted in pandemonium, as a string of virtual assistants would start going off in the background.

She’s still dealing with that issue these days too, however, she is now ‘back to loving her name again’.

“If anything, being able to say ‘Alexa, like the Amazon robot’ makes it more memorable when I meet new people,” Nizam joked.

“It’s actually helped cut back on the misnomers I used to get all the time: Alexis, Alexia, and Alex are (mostly) a thing of the past.”

But she still believes that Amazon should have chosen a ‘more obscure name’ for its product, pointing out that the company’s competitors have avoided regular names with their personal assistant devices.

Yeah, OK, I know that sounds scary but when I say ‘chance’, I mean a 2.3 percent (1 in 43) chance. But hey, that’s still more than no chance at all.

Named 2024 YR4, the big bit of rock is travelling away from us at the moment, having passed by at a distance of 828,800 kilometres on Christmas Day 2024. It’s going to come back though, estimated to be getting pretty close in December 2032.

And with that, a NASA engineer has shared the countries that might be hit by the chunk of rock if it comes crashing down from space in seven years.

The current line from officials at the agency is that they are monitoring YR4 as an object of interest, so again, it’s really not something to be massively worrying about right now.

But if it does hit, NASA state that the damage would be ‘localised’ instead of us being wiped out like the dinosaurs.

Looking at this (small, small) possibility of collision, experts such as engineer with NASA’s Catalina Sky Survey Project David Rankin have drawn up a ‘risk corridor’.

Wired report that according to the asteroid’s current path, if it was to hit Earth, the experts reckon 2024 YR4 should fall somewhere in a band of territory stretching from northern South America, across the Pacific Ocean, to southern Asia, the Arabian Sea, and Africa. So, countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Sudan, Nigeria, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador would be at risk.

The space agency explain that as more observations of the asteroid’s orbit are obtained, ‘its impact probability will become better known’.

There’s a very, very small chance of it hitting Earth (Getty Stock)

And in some good news, it adds that it’s possible that 2024 YR4 ‘will be ruled out as an impact hazard’ which has previously happened with many other objects that have previously been on the NASA JPL asteroid risk list.

However, the space agency does point out: “It is also possible its impact probability will continue to rise.”

In the sitcom, one of the main relationship dramas is whether her character Penny will end up with Leonard (Johnny Galecki) or not, and they do end up getting over their ‘will they, won’t they’ to forge a proper relationship.

Just as the characters got together on the show, so too did their actors in real life, but the relationship wasn’t to last and the pair parted ways amicably and continued performing together.

Speaking to The Armchair Expert podcast in 2020, Cuoco said they ‘just fell mad for each other for two years’ and then broke up, but afterwards she thought that the sex scenes between their characters increased.

“Johnny and I talk about it and I think he did that on purpose — just to f**k with us.

This is a claim that The Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre addressed and denied in the book The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story.

He said: “No. Not at all. Making a good show has no room for f**king with anybody.

“There’s no, ‘Let’s mess with Kaley and Johnny’. The goal was to make a great show and make every minute of every episode count. And that was the only goal.

The Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre addressed the suspicion and said there was ‘no room for f**king with anybody’ while making a TV show. (Evans Vestal Ward/WBTV via Getty Images)

“We don’t have that kind of freedom to risk a TV series that you put your heart and soul into to mess with somebody’s head. No.

“I think that’s charming that they think we had the mental capacity to mess with them. Penny and Leonard having difficulty sustaining a relationship was one of the reasons to keep watching – to see if they could make it.

“You were rooting for them to find happiness.”

After the book was released, Galecki said it was ‘pretty egotistical of us to think that’ scenes had been put in to mess with them.

He said: “We were reading into things a little too much. I’m going to sleep a little easier tonight.”