A teenager shot dead alongside his father had links to organised crime gangs, police have revealed.
Salim Hamze, 18, and his father Toufik, 64, were were both killed while sitting in the front of a red Nissan Navara ute on Osgood St, Guildford shortly before 9am on Wednesday.
Police said Salim suffered multiple gunshot wounds and died at the scene. His body was covered with a blue cloth while emergency crews worked frantically to save his father who was shot
There are many languages throughout the world that have survived only in the tiniest of pockets.
There is a language in Nepal that doesn’t have a word for green, a language on two Pacific islands invented by the mutineers of HMS Bounty in the late 18th century, a language in the U.S spoken fluently by just six people and one in Mexico that calls a radio ‘a thing that stands there singing’.
These and many more are explored in fascinating
A fashion designer who was made redundant during the pandemic, soon after buying a fixer-upper home, has revealed how she added £67,000 to the value of the outdated property in just one year – while retraining to be a teacher.
Tasmin Blaney, 29, and her partner Phil Bolger, 30, originally from Manchester, purchased their first three-bed home in Warrington for £173,000 in September 2020.
But just as the couple of eight years were ready to sign on the dotted line
The coolest neighbourhoods in the world have been named by the influential Time Out guide, and Norrebro in Copenhagen has claimed the top spot.
Coming second in the guide’s annual ranking is Andersonville in Chicago, with Jongno 3-ga in Seoul seizing third place. Leith in Edinburgh just misses out on the top three, coming fourth, while Dalston in London and Dublin 8 in Dublin both make the top 15.
The list was put together using a global survey of 27,000
The ‘best travel photography’ of the year has been revealed.
So says National Geographic Traveller UK in the unveiling of its 2021 Photography Competition winners.
Taking the grand prize is Andro Loria for his ‘spectacular’ entry in the Portfolio category. The images, all taken in Iceland from a small aeroplane, capture the country’s deserts, volcanoes, glaciers, mountains, rivers, lakes, coast and highlands.
The judges say: ‘What an incredible selection of landscapes, mixing abstract, swirling colours with frozen, geyser-filled vistas in
The secret offshore wealth of more than 300 world leaders, politicians and billionaires has been exposed in one of the biggest ever leaks of financial data.
Dubbed the Pandora Papers, the documents show how 35 current and former world leaders – including associates of Vladimir Putin – used accounts in tax havens to accrue huge amounts of wealth and carry out transactions.
The files consist of 12 million documents from 14 financial services companies in countries including the British Virgin
Fascinating photographs show how Qatar’s capital city has undergone an incredible transformation over the past 50 years.
Then and now pictures, courtesy of Qatar Tourism, illustrate how Doha’s landmarks and landscapes have changed dramatically over a period of time that amounts to a blink of an eye, historically.
For example, the Sheraton Grand Hotel was once the only building to mark the flat stretch of sand along the West Bay area. A glittering skyline of sci-fi-style skyscrapers has since
Rolls-Royce has today revealed the first images and details of its Spectre electric luxury car that will herald a fully electrified line-up within a decade – with a name that will leave even James Bond shaken and stirred.
The new zero-emissions Spectre will be on sale by the end of 2023 and the entire Rolls-Royce range will be battery powered by 2030, said the firm – owned by BMW – with its boutique factory headquarters at Goodwood in Sussex.
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A century ago, the Milky Way galaxy was the entirety of the known universe. We had no idea what made the stars shine, and only one star — our own sun — was known to harbor any planets. Of those planets, humans had explored only one: Earth.
“The stellar universe, as we know it … is a flattened, watch-shaped organization of stars and nebulae,” astronomer Harlow Shapley wrote in Science News Bulletin, the earliest version of Science News,
