7 h. ago Lovers message in a bottle found 13 years later and 2,000 miles away

A couple in Ireland found a message in a bottle this week, 13 years after Canadian couple, Brad and Anita Squires, threw it off the high cliffs of Bell Island

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20 h. ago City chief embroiled in Birmingham bin strike moves to award

Craig Cooper defended Birmingham City Council's position during the strike dispute, but has left the Midlands to move 10,000 miles away to one of the world's "cleanest" cities, Brisbane

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21 h. ago Taking flight: how Premier League clubs are racking up 175,000 summer air miles

All 20 teams are jetting around between league seasons, including for friendlies, training camps and the Club World CupAfter a training camp in Spain the Gunners head to Asia, kicking off their tour with a friendly against Milan in Singapore. They play again at the National Stadium four days later, against Newcastle, then face Spurs in Hong Kong. Two friendlies follow at the Emirates Stadium, against Villarreal and Athletic Club. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago Scots widow walking entire UK coast in wife’s memory wins top award nomination

Tracey Howe set off on 5,000-mile walk after losing wife Angela to blood cancer, now she's raised thousands for charity and earned a major award nod.

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66 h. ago Average Glastonbury reveller clocked up 50 miles of steps across Worthy Farm

The average festival-goer clocked up 114,000 steps – or about 50 miles – as they traversed the 900-acre site.

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3 d. ago Discovery of ancient riverbeds suggests Mars once wetter than thought

Scientists spot traces of 10,000 miles of rivers in area where many believed ‘there wasn’t any evidence for water’Thousands of miles of ancient riverbeds have been discovered in the heavily cratered southern highlands of Mars, suggesting the red planet was once a far wetter world than scientists thought.Researchers spotted geological traces of nearly 10,000 miles (16,000km) of ancient watercourses, believed to be more than 3bn years old, in high resolution images of the rugged landscape captured by Mars orbiters. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Care home colleagues and residents walk 7,000 miles for Cancer Research UK

Greenan Manor Care Home in Ayr, along with other Meallmore-operated care homes across Scotland, raised £7,000 after a walking challenge.

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4 d. ago João Pedro leaves it to Chelsea fans to celebrate after double against old side | Sid Lowe

The £60m Brazilian scored both goals but showed no emotion as Fluminense were his first club in his homelandThis time last week, João Pedro was on a Brazilian beach; now he’s in the Club World Cup final, handed a standing ovation by old fans and new. The 23-year-old forward had been on holiday in Rio de Janeiro when they called to say his £60m transfer to Chelsea had been completed and could he come straight here.Two days and a single training session later, he made his debut in Philadelphia, more than 4,000 miles north of home, a promising glimpse of a future. Four days after that, he was given his first start in New Jersey. It took 18 minutes to get a glorious goal. By the time he headed off, an hour in, he had another. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Car expert shares '30,000 mile' technique to save money on petrol

A car expert has shared three things drivers need to check to save money on petrol. The tip has gone viral on TikTok, and can save you cash at the pump

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5 d. ago Brit mum in intensive care after falling ill on dream holiday 2,000 miles from home

Rebecca Russell, 32, was away on holiday in Marrakech, Morocco, with her fiancé and two friends when she became seriously ill and was then rushed to hospital

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5 d. ago Tension and tedium: welcome to the Wimbledon press conference room | Jonathan Liew

Anyone can ask any question of the players, leading to absurd inquiries, but it can sometimes serve a useful purposeTo spend even a little time at Wimbledon is to drown in the sheer scale of things. This is a place of mind-boggling numbers: the 40 miles of racket string, the 55,000 balls, the 300,000 glasses of Pimm’s, the 2.5m strawberries. But Wimbledon’s true staple good is none of these. The most abundant product every Wimbledon fortnight is the word. And even on a rain-affected, slow news day, the words must keep coming.As with everything else, Wimbledon procures its words with a suitable reverence. Post-match interviews, in contrast to the more informal on-court setup at Melbourne and New York, are conducted at a respectful distance in front of a microphone stand, as if Jannik Sinner were actually a high-school student about to spell a very difficult word. But of course the majority of Wimbledon’s bluff and bluster takes place in a small windowless upstairs chamber that most t...

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7 d. ago PSG’s culture shift leads into mighty Club World Cup showdown with Bayern

European champions are enjoying themselves under Luis Enrique, a world away from their last game against the German clubThe last time they crossed paths, Vincent Kompany was on his way in and Luis Enrique was on his way out. It was late November at the Allianz Arena and Bayern Munich’s new manager waited by the press room while his opposite number at Paris Saint-Germain spoke to the media; as he listened in, he could hardly believe what he heard. “It was completely over the top,” Kompany recalled in Atlanta when he again followed Luis Enrique into a chair lined up before the cameras, and before another big night, seven months later and more than 7,000 miles away. “Now we’re talking about the same game from a totally different perspective; it’s interesting to press fast forward and see how much things can change.”That night, Bayern beat PSG 1-0 in the Champions League. Five games into the competition, PSG had won just once, against Girona at the Parc des Princes and that was their th...

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9 d. ago ‘Our sense of safety was violated’: a Black suburb in Ohio confronts repeated threats from white supremacists

Residents formed a safety watch after a neo-Nazi march in Lincoln Heights, but racist incidents still cause turmoilDespite its proximity to a busy highway, Lincoln Heights’ rolling hills, parks and well-kept lawns are pictures of calm suburban life north of Cincinnati.Today it’s home to about 3,000 mostly African American people a few miles from Kentucky and the Ohio River, which divided free northern states from the slave-owning south. In the 1920s, Lincoln Heights became one of the first self-governing Black communities north of the Mason-Dixon line. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Takeaways from AP report on company that sold 200,000 carbon credits to remove CO2 from ocean

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon capture technology

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1 week ago Company's carbon credits raise questions about unproven ocean technology to fight global warming

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon capture technology

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1 week ago Scientists baffled by 'interstellar object' spotted hurtling towards our solar system

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb revealed that the object is expected to approach Earth on December 17, speeding through the solar system at more than 41 miles per second (roughly 150,000 miles per hour).

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1 week ago US researchers launch new mission to solve mystery of Amelia Earhart’s fate

Researchers to follow fresh clues that suggest pioneering aviator may have crash-landed on remote Pacific islandA new mission to locate Amelia Earhart’s long-missing plane is being launched, researchers announced on Wednesday, following fresh clues that suggest she may have crash-landed on a remote island in the South Pacific.A satellite image may show part of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10E protruding from the sand on Nikumaroro, an isolated island in Kiribati about 1,000 miles from Fiji, according to Richard Pettigrew, head of the Archaeological Legacy Institute, a non-profit based in Oregon. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Man left 'in disbelief' after helping save woman 9,000 miles away

There are over two million registered stem cell donors in the UK - but they have to match patients

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1 week ago 'I solo travelled 5,000 miles across beautiful continent without spending a penny'

Courtney Allan hitchhiked from Guangzhou in China to the Russia-Mongolia border - a journey which took 50 days - and has described her method as "such a great way to see the world for free"

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1 week ago How I solo travelled 5,000 miles across the world without spending a penny

A 26-year-old who spent just £15 on transport hitchhiking across Africa says she has since travelled from Guangzhou in China to the Russia-Mongolia border without it costing her anything.

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