With just over a month to go until she married the heir to the throne, Lady Diana Spencer was looking forward to dancing with her fiance.
Along with the entire Royal Family, she’d been invited to a party at Windsor Castle to celebrate Prince Andrew’s 21st birthday. And what a party! Elton John was providing the cabaret and there was a disco, complete with dry ice wafting smoke across the dancefloor.
Incredibly, even the Queen joined in the fun, dancing
Hamas fighters carrying RPGs have engaged in a firefight with IDF troops at a Gaza hospital this afternoon, Israel claims – as Tel Aviv’s forces continue to surround a medical facility believed to be hiding the terrorists’ headquarters.
While fighting has so far been largely concentrated in a tightening circle around Al Shifa, Gaza’s biggest hospital, the Israel Defense Forces released footage this afternoon claiming to show Hamas fighters with RPGs outside a second hospital in the territory, al-Quds.
The
At a 15th-century palace that is steps from the Vatican and set to become a luxury hotel, archaeologists did what they always do in Rome, an ancient city thick with buried treasures.
They started to dig.
Rome is the gift that keeps on giving to archaeologists, though no one knew what would come from this preliminary exploration, a familiar routine at Italian building sites and development projects.
To the archaeologists’ surprise — and immense delight — the dig brought to
Chet hunches forward rubbing his temples, as though trying to anesthetize the pain in his head. His 56th birthday is less than two months away, and it looks like he’ll be dead before it arrives.
“Sometimes I wonder if I should have listened to Sandy,” he says mournfully, “and tried radiation or something. But I was scared of what they’d do to me.”
For months he’d ignored a stubborn cough. When he started getting winded climbing stairs or working in
Scientists who found an ‘impossible’ spinning object in space that sent repeating radio signals to Earth every 18 minutes were initially ‘concerned’ they might have picked up a message from a distant alien civilisation.
The mysterious object – which is 4,000 light years away from Earth – is unlike anything ever seen before in space, astronomers said.
Observations show it releasing a giant burst of energy three times an hour – and when she discovered it, astrophysicist Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug for monkeypox treatment, as cases of the rare virus has now been detected in 11 countries, including the U.S. and the UK.
SIGA Technologies, based in New York City, announced Friday morning it had received the regulatory green light for an IV formulation of TPOXX, a smallpox drug that was already available in oral form.
The company notes that in Europe, the drug is officially approved as a monkeypox treatment,
