18 h. ago Mexico's deadliest cartel has 'death camps and hospitals' yet to be found

A Mexican public security analyst warned more horror sites run by drug cartels could be uncovered. He explained how these other potential locations could look and what other terrifying buildings they could run

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41 h. ago Man's 'fascination' with weapons led to him being uncovered as drug dealer

Andrew Hanley has a history of possessing weapons including a knife, knuckleduster and martial arts nunchucks

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3 d. ago Airport security uncover £1m drug stash inside electric wheelchair

The National Crime Agency says the concealment ‘shows the ingenuity crime groups employ to smuggle cocaine’

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1 week ago Paging Dr Chimp: the medical secrets we can learn from apes, birds and even butterflies

Primates eat bitter bark to kill parasites, while sparrows use cigarette butts to keep ticks off their chicks. Could the wisdom of wildlife be the next frontier in medicine?In Mexico City, house sparrows and house finches are picking up cigarette butts and weaving individual fibres into the lining of their nests. When researchers first discovered the butts – while studying what plastics end up in nests – they assumed it was simply a fluffy material being used as insulation. But through a series of ingenious tests, they discovered that the butts were actually medicinal: the birds actively collected them because the toxin nicotine reduces mites and other blood-sucking parasites. The birds are treating themselves – and their offspring.It’s one of many fascinating examples of animals medicating themselves revealed in Doctors By Nature, a new book by the US-based Dutch academic Jaap de Roode. Apes deliberately swallow leaves to dislodge intestinal worms. Caterpillars switch diets to repe...

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1 week ago Police bust major drug operation after noticing 'Scouse presence' in town

Police uncovered a major drug trafficking operation

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1 week ago Netflix reveals five fascinating details of how hit drama Adolescence was filmed in one shot

The hit series has received a near-perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes

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1 week ago Netflix reveals 5 fascinating details of how hit drama Adolescence was filmed in one shot

The hit series has received a near-perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes

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2 w. ago ‘New York plows ahead’: how the English invaded and changed a city

Russell Shorto returns to fascinating history of a unique city in Taking Manhattan, a book showing how New Amsterdam became New YorkIn lower Manhattan, at Pearl Street and Coenties Alley in the oldest part of New York City, walls and a cistern are visible under the sidewalk, through pains of clouded glass. Next to them, the outline of a 17th-century building is marked in colored brick.“That is the footprint of the original Stadt Huys, which was first the city tavern and then became” the city hall of New Amsterdam, the author and historian Russell Shorto said. “When they were excavating to put in that skyscraper [85 Broad Street, built for Goldman Sachs in the 1980s], the archeologists identified and marked out those little bits. Continue reading...

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