85 m. ago How a marine heatwave is threatening Australia’s spectacular coral reefs

One of the longest and most intense heat stress events ever recorded is raising alarm – and a warning about the future of reefs worldwide• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to get the newsletter in fullWhen it comes to coral, the Great Barrier Reef steals the global limelight. It’s a bucket-list place for many and, when it gets hit by coral bleaching, it makes news around the world.But Australia has another group of spectacular reefs on the west of the continent. Many of them had managed to escape the worst of global heating, until the worst marine heatwave ever recorded for this region. Even a “hope spot” for coral reefs has been decimated by the most severe heatwave on record for that part of the world.WA’s ‘longest and most intense’ marine heatwave killed coral across 1,500km stretch‘If the reef had a voice, it would sing’: could legal personhood help the Great Barrier Reef?Fears for South Australia’s annual cuttlefish gathering amid deadly algal bloom...

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1 hour ago Married couple 'lived with corpse of intimate threesome partner for over a year'

James Agnew, 55, and Suzanne Agnew, 57, were arrested on Thursday and charged with multiple counts each, including abuse of a corpse and tampering with a deceased human body

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1 hour ago Council update after hero mum killed by falling tree saving her child at park

As a tree fell directly towards them it's understood the little girl was in a pushchair which Mrs Kauser managed to push away before taking the full force of the falling branch herself

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2 h. ago Arne Slot drops biggest hint yet on Liverpool's Alexander Isak transfer chase

Arne Slot has made it clear that he wants Liverpool to secure another attack as they remain determined to add Alexander Isak, who is pushing for a Newcastle exit

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2 h. ago Private islands used as hideaway by Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson on sale for £3m

The pair of islands in Berkshire were once home to The Nest, said to be a hideaway for the royal couple

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2 h. ago Scientists use AI to create new antibiotics that can kill deadly drug

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing public health crisis and is estimated to be responsible for more than one million deaths globally each year

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3 h. ago ‘What about our lives?’: emotions run high in frontline Ukrainian city over ceding land to Russia

Trump’s talk of ‘land swaps’ as a simple transaction belies grim reality of what it would mean for people in Zaporizhzhia The city of Zaporizhzhia, an industrial hub in south-east Ukraine, is as good a place as any to grasp the stakes of freezing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine along its current frontlines, or of implementing a “land swap for peace” deal as envisioned by Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.Since Russian troops began rolling into Ukraine in February 2022, Zaporizhzhia, with its broad avenues and Stalin-era apartment blocks, has been a 30-minute drive from the frontline. It has been under near-constant attack from missiles and drones. On Sunday, a Russian guided air bomb hit a bus station, wounding 24 people – just another day of suffering in a city that has known many of them. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago UK weather maps show temperatures set to plunge to 4C for Brits this August

The latest weather maps show the exact date that temperatures will plummet across the UK, with some parts of the country set to see lows of 4C in just a couple of weeks

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3 h. ago London Powers | Family, friends honor NC Central University student killed by ex

London Powers | Family, friends honor NC Central University student killed by ex-boyfriend in domestic violence situation  ABC11

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3 h. ago Dear Coleen: I'm struggling with guilt over my mum’s dementia battle

I’m a married man in my 40s and my mum, who’s in her 70s, has had dementia for a couple of years. In this time, she’s gone from being a sweet, kind person to someone who’s really ­aggressive and verbally abusive.

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5 h. ago Worker 'beats colleague to death and "eats his brain" on first day in job'

The brutal killing took place on August 12 at Fazenda Baixinha, a rural property in Ilheus, in the far south of the Brazilian state of Bahia.

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6 h. ago After uproar, documentary on Hamas 2023 attack will screen at Toronto Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival will screen a documentary on the 2023 Hamas attack, after all, following an uproar over the film’s disinvitation from the upcoming festival

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6 h. ago Death row killer gouges out both his own eyes and eats them in bid to avoid execution

Andre Thomas, 39, was sentenced to death in 2005 for the murders of his estranged wife and her two children. His execution was postponed after he gouged out his eyes

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8 h. ago Katie Price branded Peter Andre's wife Emily 'a disgusting person' in now

Katie Price and Peter Andre are currently embroiled in a very public war of words - and it's not the first time the former couple have clashed with each other

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9 h. ago Prosecutors file more attempted murder charges against Minnesota man who killed lawmakers

A Minnesota man accused of killing a top Democratic state lawmaker and wounding another is now facing new and upgraded state charges in a fresh indictment

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11 h. ago Teens arrested after boy, 17, horrifically injured in Wigan machete attack

The incident happened at around 5:30pm on Wednesday on a street in Wigan and left the young victim 'bleeding heavily' with potentially life-changing injuries to his hand

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11 h. ago Mother's distress as daughter, 15, found murdered 'by man, 67,' who then killed himself

Kyelonna Meya Smiley, 15, was discovered fatally shot in the head in a senior community in Phoenix and Nohe Prado Morelia, 67, took his own life four days later.

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11 h. ago The 'silent dog killer' that lies dormant with almost no signs

Within hours, days or weeks, the outcome would likely have been devastating without life-saving surgery - and the dog's owner had no idea

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11 h. ago Emmerdale Kammy Hadiq's 'exit sealed' following aftermath of Vinny's violent attack

Emmerdale viewers saw Vinny blame Kammy for his violent attack in tonight's episode, with the resident later telling Vinny that covering for him was 'ruining his life'

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13 h. ago Member of cultlike Zizian group faces new murder charge in border patrol agent’s death

A woman accused of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a Vermont traffic stop in January has been indicted on murder and other new charges that make her eligible for the death penalty

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