New drone rules are being introduced in U.K. that'll restrict all drones from flying above 400 feet and within 1 km of airport boundaries, and the changes will come into effect on July 30. The law will also be requiring the registration of drones weighing 250 grams or more with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), and these requirements will come into force on Nov.30, 2019. "We welcome the clarity that today's announcements provides, as it leaves no doubt that anyone flying a drone must stay well away from aircraft, airports and airfields, says Chris Woodroofe, Chief Operating Officer of London's Gatwick Airport. On the other hand, 'Drone bill' will be published to provide police officers the powers to intervene if the drones are used inappropriately. "The CAA supports the safe development of drones in the U.K., as they can bring many benefits, but to achieve those, we need everyone flying a drone now to do so safely.

UAVs have become the valuable tool for emergency search and rescue operations. On the island of Hawaii, drones are being used to move people out of harm's way as lava continues to pour from Kilauea volcano. "The drone helps prompt and guide evacuations and led to the successful rescue of a resident after a lava pond outbreak sent a very fast pahoehoe flow down Luana Street," the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said in a Twitter post. The drone technology is a boon for both the volcanologists and the emergency management teams. UAVs are considered the safest option to get up close to the active volcanoes, providing the geologists with the current data and valuable information regarding developments on and around the volcano over a longer period of time.

PESHAWAR/DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban named Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud as the new leader on Saturday, a week after the previous chief Mullah Fazlullah was killed in a U.S.-Afghan air strike in Afghanistan, the group's spokesman said.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Pakistani Taliban militants chose a religious scholar as their new chief in place of Mullah Fazlullah, the insurgent leader who ordered the assassination of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and was killed earlier this month in a U.S. drone strike. Mohammad Khurasani, a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, said Saturday that the executive council of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan appointed Mufti Noor Wali Mahsud as its new chief and Mufti Mazhim, aka Mufti Hafzullah, as his deputy. Khurasani conceded for the first time that Mullah Fazlullah was killed in the drone attack in Afghanistan's Kunar province. He did not say when and where the TTP executive council met to choose the new leader. A ruthless leader, Fazlullah ordered the beheading of dozens of opponents when his band of insurgents controlled Pakistan's picturesque Swat Valley from 2007 until a massive military operation routed them out in 2009. Fazlullah rose to prominence through his radio broadcasts in Swat demanding the imposition of Islamic law, earning him the nickname "Mullah Radio."

It's no great revelation that we live in a surveillance society. A U.S. citizen is reportedly captured on CCTV around 75 times per day. That figure is even higher elsewhere in the world. In the United Kingdom, this number is considerably greater, with your average Brit likely to be caught on surveillance cameras up to 300 times in the same period. But a lot of existing CCTV networks still rely on people to operate them.

In three hours, officials and volunteers surveyed more than 130 homes. They peered into flower vases with flashlights, dumped out standing water in buckets and showed residents where mosquitoes might be lurking in their yards and homes. Unlike the native species in California, which thrive in moist, rural environments, Aedes aegypti and albopictus larvae can survive for months in small amounts of water – in vases, water bottles and even bottle caps.

Right now, if you're in the United States and you want to fly a drone, you have to keep the zippy little vehicle in sight. That, and you can't go any faster than 100 mph. No soaring over people, either, and keep its altitude under 400 feet. Those are the FAA regulations. But these rules present an obstacle for any company or organization that wants to use drones for practical tasks, like delivering packages or monitoring highway traffic.

You walk into your local Walmart. There may be someone to greet you at the door, yet as you make your way down the aisle, you realize you need help. Within moments a drone flies down from above and hovers in front of you, then leads you to the item you're trying to find. Is this real, or is this science fiction? Walmart has filed a patent for drones to help shoppers in its stores. The way it works is simple.

Company spokeswoman Jessica Sader said Washington was a place to launch the company as the Federal Aviation Administration worked on drone rules, but now it's time to be in a location where they can launch their products for their customers.

Highway traffic monitoring is frequently... less than efficient. Fixed cameras can't catch problems beyond their immediate location, while aircraft are both costly and inevitably have to fly back to a distant base to refuel. These systems may soon get a robotic upgrade, though. Ohio State University is leading a pilot program that will use drones for roadway and traffic monitoring along a 35-mile highway stretch (the Smart Mobility Corridor) between Dublin and East Liberty. The dry run will see drones feed tracking data to the Ohio Department of Transportation's Traffic Management Center to complement data from existing systems.