20 h. ago A man exposed himself to the world’s deadliest snake venom so scientists could create a revolutionary antidote

The antivenom was created from a human donor with "once-in-a-lifetime" immunity after exposing himself to the venom of various deadly snakes

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3 d. ago Scientists use live human brain tissue to speed up hunt for dementia cure

Exclusive: British team exposed live cells to toxic proteins to gather rare insight into how dementia developsScientists have used living human brain tissue to mimic the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, in a breakthrough that will accelerate the hunt for a cure.In a world first, a British team successfully exposed healthy brain tissue from living NHS patients to a toxic form of a protein linked to Alzheimer’s – taken from patients who died from the disease – to show how it damages connections between brain cells in real time. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago In the Madrid power cuts, I saw patience and common sense – but we were woefully unprepared | María Ramírez

People queued calmly for torches and shared radios, but our vulnerability in an internet-reliant world was badly exposedAt the entrance to a healthcare centre on Trafalgar Street, in my densely populated, central Madrid neighbourhood, somebody had stuck a sign: “We ask for patience and common sense.” The door was half open as doctors and nurses calmly tended to emergencies inside.Patience and common sense is a very good way to describe what I witnessed in Madrid throughout the big blackout. We had no light, no power, no phone signal, not even water in some apartment buildings. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago JetBlue passenger accused of downing entire bottle of Prosecco, exposing self to flight attendant – twice

Exclusive: Dennis Wally Woodbury is also accused of slapping a crewmember’s butt and asking a young girl “if her parents made her out of lust or love.”

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6 d. ago Pope Francis funeral: The world leaders who took photos of coffin EXPOSED

Members of the public have blasted foreign dignitaries taking pictures at the Pope's Vatican City funeral on Saturday, with some saying electronic devices should have been banned

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1 week ago Ian Hamilton Finlay: The groundbreaking artist and poet who created ‘Little Sparta’

The revolutionary Scotsman, who created in his Lanarkshire garden 'Little Sparta', would have turned 100 this year

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1 week ago Exposing ‘the illegals’: how KGB’s fake westerners infiltrated the Prague Spring

Kremlin’s most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern blocDuring the spring of 1968, as revolutionary sentiment began to grow in communist Czechoslovakia, a group of friendly foreigners began arriving in Prague, on flights from Helsinki and East Berlin, or by car from West Germany.Among them were 11 western European men, a Swiss woman named Maria Weber and a Lebanese carpet dealer called Oganes Sarajian. They were all supporters of what would become known as the Prague Spring, an ultimately doomed attempt to build a more liberal and free ­version of socialism and escape from Moscow’s suffocating embrace. Many of the visitors sought to get close to the movement’s leading lights, offering support in the battle to reform communist rule. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago World media reacts as 'epic' Rangers expose impotent Athletic but Bilbao threaten to take Ibrox SHEEP to hell

It was another big Euro night at Ibrox for Rangers and here is how the world reacted

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3 w. ago How a phone footage exposed a massacre of Gaza paramedics – podcast

Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil defence workers in southern Gaza on 23 March. Bethan McKernan reports on the emerging evidence of what happenedIsraeli forces shot dead 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil defence workers on 23 March and buried them in a mass grave in the Tel al-Sultan district of Rafah.The Israeli military claimed their vehicles had been “advancing suspiciously” and without headlights or flashing emergency lights. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago How phone footage exposed a massacre of Gaza paramedics – podcast

Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil defence workers in southern Gaza on 23 March. Bethan McKernan reports on the emerging evidence of what happenedIsraeli forces shot dead 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil defence workers on 23 March and buried them in a mass grave in the Tel al-Sultan district of Rafah.The Israeli military claimed their vehicles had been “advancing suspiciously” and without headlights or flashing emergency lights. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Hugo Boss flipflops exposed prison governor's romance with drug kingpin

A court heard Pegg, described in court as, "petite, blonde and bubbly", had been fast-tracked into and then up the prison service, quickly climbing the career ladder from graduate entrant to prison governor in six years.

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3 w. ago ‘We will have to raise prices’: gloom and resolve in Yiwu, on China’s trade war frontline

At the world’s largest wholesale market, vendors have reduced their exposure to the US but fear the repercussions of a global economic shockIf you have ever bought a Christmas decoration, a button, an electric shaver or any other cheap manufactured product, there is a good chance it came from Yiwu, a city in east China’s Zhejiang province that is home to the world’s largest wholesale market.Covering more than 4m square metres, tens of thousands of suppliers have booths in Yiwu International Trade City. As the US and China exchange increasingly hysterical rhetoric and threaten ever-higher tariffs, it is vendors at places like Yiwu who are at the frontline of the new trade war. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Outrageous Irish pub receipt exposes price for 1 round of drinks at Temple Bar

A visitor to the Temple Bar in Dublin has shared his shock after his receipt showed a round of a beer, a Coke, two rums and six Baby Guinness shots cost him more than 100 euros

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3 w. ago Space probe to map carbon content of world’s remotest tropical forests

Revolutionary scanner to be fired into Earth orbit this month to measure effects of deforestationScientists are about to take part in a revolutionary mission aimed at creating detailed 3D maps of the world’s remotest, densest and darkest tropical forests – from outer space. The feat will be achieved using a special radar scanner that has been fitted to a probe, named Biomass, that will be fired into the Earth’s orbit later this month.For the next five years, the 1.25-tonne spacecraft will sweep over the tropical rainforests of Africa, Asia and South America and peer through their dense 40m-high ­canopies to study the vegetation that lies beneath. The data collected by Biomass will then be used to create unique 3D maps of forests normally hidden from human sight. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Murderous cartel's brutal recruitment exposed after bones found at 'execution ranch'

An investigation into the Mexico's Jalisco Cartel after bones were found at one of its execution ranches, has exposed the sickening recruitment methods used by the murderous group

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