April 25, 2024
Some of the countries facing the biggest threat from the climate crisis seem all too intent on making it far worse.
Oil workers gather at an oil refinery south of Tehran in Iran.
(Vahid Salemi, File / AP Photo)
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Last September witnessed what used to be a truly rare weather phenomenon:
After 17 years of serving his country, Mark Kelm is now providing a different type of service: He’s advocating for others who, like him, are living with Parkinson’s disease (PD).
Kelm, who lives in a small Minnesota town with his wife of 23 years and three children, was just 38 years old when he was diagnosed with PD, a nervous system disorder that causes tremors, stiffness, loss of balance and other movement issues.
He credits his military background for
Ruthless IRA boss Martin McGuinness apparently helped set up a car bomb that later blew up in the Londonderry city centre, newly recovered video has revealed.
A documentary that was hidden away for nearly 50 years shows how a group of men, including McGuinness, seemingly packed explosives into a Volkswagen on a street in Londonderry, Northern Ireland before the vehicle was driven away.
The video then cuts to the moment a car bomb was detonated on Shipquay Street in 1972.
The Queen appeared in high spirits as she prepared to host a reception for authors, illustrators and binders who have been involved a new Miniature Library collection displayed alongside Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House – in celebration of its centenary year.
It was her first royal engagement since King Charles left the hospital yesterday. Camilla, 76, hosted the event at Windsor Castle, to commemorate one of the largest and most famous dolls’ houses in the world – built for King George
Mary Earps is best known for keeping the ball out of the net, but the England goalkeeper has completed a hat-trick on Tuesday by becoming the third successive female winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
Earps had been the overwhelming favourite to scoop the annual gong in Salford, as she followed tennis star Emma Raducanu and England team-mate Beth Mead in receiving the accolade.
The award furthered confirmed the growth of women’s football with back-to-back winners,
This is the hilarious moment Prince Louis playfully lobbed some clothes on top of a pile of while helping sort through donations at a baby bank.
The cheeky royal, five, who is known to steal the show at royal events with his playful antics, joined his mother, the Princess of Wales, as well as siblings Prince George and Princess Charlotte to help out with the baby bank’s Christmas gift appeal.
The Wales children helped their mother and volunteers pick out
Some mangrove forests off Australia have flourished in the last several decades, a new study reports. And, counterintuitively, rising sea levels may be responsible.
Off Australia’s northern coast, the skeletal remains of ancient coral reefs form the bedrock of numerous wooded islands. These low-lying tropical oases are home to diverse animals and plants, including mangrove forests that pepper their coasts and serve as vital habitat and carbon storers. A recent survey of one cluster of those islands — the first
A grave warning over the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) to humans has come from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today.
While acknowledging the positive potential of the technology in areas such as healthcare, the PM said ‘humanity could lose control of AI completely’ with ‘incredibly serious’ consequences.
The grave message coincides with the publication of a government report and comes ahead of the world’s first AI Safety Summit in Buckinghamshire next week.
Many of the world’s top scientists attending the
Can you think of anything more intimidating than Queen Camilla’s former daughter-in-law coming round to your house and inspecting your wardrobe?
Nope, me neither. But here I am with Sara Parker Bowles, who was married to Camilla’s son Tom for 16 years (though separated for the last five, finally divorcing last year) in my bedroom, surveying my minuscule closet where scores of tatty garments, mainly from Zara and Uniqlo, are fighting higgledy-piggledy for space with ancient anoraks and fraying dressing
Meteorites offer tantalizing clues about what the early solar system was like. But finding them is far from rocket science. Often, researchers simply fan out across a landscape and walk for hours while staring at the ground. Now, some scientists are turning to drones and machine learning to help spot freshly fallen meteorites much more efficiently.
A team of six people on a meteorite-hunting expedition can search about 200,000 square meters per day, says Seamus Anderson, a planetary scientist at
