A series of small-medium earthquakes have rattled Oklahoma throughout Wednesday night, bringing a staggering 26 earthquakes to the region in just 17 hours.  A 4.7 magnitude tremor was followed just moments later by another 4.8 earthquake in an area 20 miles from Fairview, Oklahoma. Weather.com reports: The quakes struck at depths of 2.1 and 3.7 miles below the surface. The twin earthquakes occurred at 10:27 p.m. CST Wednesday night and were felt from central Kansas to southern Oklahoma and the eastern Texas panhandle, including in Wichita, Kansas, and the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

A group of American tourists have filmed what looks like a UFO next to a vortex of swirling clouds, above the CERN headquarters in Switzerland.  The strange footage was captured above the the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and shows clouds swirling very fast above the nuclear research tunnels, followed by an eerie orb of light, which travels towards the vortex clouds. Dailymail.co.uk reports: The filmmaker, who could be heard expressing his amazement at the swirling clouds only moments earlier, fails to acknowledge the sudden appearance of this orb.

It's all up to China tonight, and if early ETF indications are correct, today's US equity bloodbath is about to spill over right back into Chinese markets again, only this time without the benefit of circuit breakers making it an early close for local traders if they manage to push the market down 7% in 29 minutes.

When last we checked in on Ammon Bundy and his band of “patriots”, Harney County Sheriff David Ward was getting fed up with the group’s occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

“It is time for you to leave our community, go home to your families, and end this peacefully,” Ward said on Tuesday.

A Chinese company based in the culinary port city of Guangzhou has unveiled a single-passenger drone that can transport people up to an altitude of 11,000 feet. It can cruise at 62 miles per hour for over 20 minutes and is controlled with a Microsoft Surface. It is the most daring product to come out of the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The personal aerial vehicle is named EHANG 184 AAV and comes with a six figure price tag.