The countdown to Britain’s first ever orbital space launch is officially on.
A modified Boeing 747 jet is set to arrive in the UK within weeks, as Spaceport Cornwall gears up to host the historic maiden flight on British soil.
As early as next month, Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl plane will take off from Newquay with a 70-foot-long rocket packed full of satellites, which will then be flown to high altitude, dropped, and ignited before flying into space.
It will
Der New Yorker Produzent, Songwriter und Künstler schlug im Postamt auf die Uhr, als er ein Archiv mit bisher ungehörten Tracks anlegte.
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Doctors today warned asthmatics and hay fever sufferers face a higher risk of deadly allergic reactions due to the current thunderstorms.
The combination of high pollen counts and wet weather creates a phenomenon known as ‘thunder fever’ or ‘thunderstorm asthma’.
It happens when moisture brought by the storm shatters pollen normally too large to enter the lungs into tiny pieces that can travel deep inside the airways.
There is some evidence lightning may split these pollen grains open and have
Patients going to A&E because they were having a mental crisis had to wait three weeks for a bed at one of England’s busiest hospitals, it has been revealed.
They had to stay in a short stay area with no natural light at Brighton’s Royal Sussex County Hospital because of a shortage of mental health beds.
A Government inspection dated April 26 to 27 found the patients stayed in the side rooms for an average of 52 hours before being
Monkeypox patients could pass on the disease for up to four weeks after symptoms appear, experts tell DailyMail.com as the virus spreads to eleven nations.
Dr Amesh Adalja, an emerging infectious diseases experts at John Hopkins University, made the warning in an interview today.
People who catch the virus initially suffer a fever before rashes and skin lesions appear on the face and body. The virus can then be passed on through touching the affected areas or via droplets expelled
Russian forces are giving up on Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv and retreating after weeks of bombardment and a failed effort to encircle it.
Ukraine’s general staff said the Russians were pulling back from the northeastern city and focusing on guarding supply routes, as Kyiv and Moscow’s forces engaged in a grinding battle for the country’s eastern industrial heartland.
Russian forces will instead focus on launching mortar, artillery and airstrikes in the eastern Donetsk province in order to ‘deplete Ukrainian
I could barely tell where the salt ended and the sky began.
I was on my way to Masirah, Oman’s largest island, when the surrounding terrain turned into a massive salt flat. At its edge, near the road, two Bangladeshi workers were up to their ankles in the mixture of liquid and minerals, pushing the salt flakes into pyramid-shaped piles. I, too, waded in, the horizon blurred by an orange-pink haze.
Finally I reached the ferry and, after more than
In 2020, Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau extinguished the property rights of law abiding Canadians at the stroke of a pen. By a unilateral Order in Council – passed without parliamentary debate or a vote – he declared that thousands of previously lawful models of semiautomatic guns and variants were illegal “military grade assault weapons.” Such weapons, he said, “were designed for one purpose and one purpose only, to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of
Actress Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from The View for two weeks over her comments alleging race was not a factor in the Holocaust
Actress Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from The View for two weeks over her comments alleging race was not a factor in the Holocaust.
ABC News President Kim Godwin announced her suspension Tuesday night, saying it was ‘effective immediately’.
‘While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact
The number of Americans dying from Covid continues to increase this week, with 1,839 Americans succumbing to the virus every day. While hospitalizations seem to be increasing as well, experts note that the figure could be misleading and are calling for better data collection practices to be implemented.
Deaths caused by Covid in the United States are up 36 percent increase over the past two weeks, with a record 155,000 people being hospitalized with the virus daily – a 61
