52 h. ago Fall of Roman Empire may have been caused by 'mini ice age' which 'broke the camel's back'

There were lots of reasons that the Roman Empire may have collapsed, but recent research suggests there may have been a climate crisis that contributed to its demise

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68 h. ago Nutrition expert reveals surprising reason why some women can't lose weight

American nutritionist Abram Anderson said women may struggle to lose weight due to this one common but unexpected problem.

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3 d. ago Celebrity Big Brother reveal second reason for surprise Mickey Rourke axe

Celebrity Big Brother star Mickey Rourke was axed from the programme on Saturday night, with Big Brother revealing a second reason alongside his behaviour in the task

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4 d. ago British man, 63, dies after falling at Roman aqueduct in Spain

Unnamed tourist fell from viewing platform overlooking the historic structure in Segovia, authorities say A 63-year-old British man has died after falling from a viewing platform overlooking the historic aqueduct of Segovia in central Spain, according to local authorities.In a brief statement on Saturday, officials described the man as a British passport holder who had arrived in the city on Thursday with two other people. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Northampton set up Leinster rematch after Henry Pollock batters Castres

Quarter-final: Northampton 51-16 CastresYoung flanker dazzles with two tries in Champions CupWhat is the East Midlands equivalent of deja vu? For the second season in succession Northampton are into the Champions Cup semi-finals and have booked themselves a trip to Dublin to face Leinster. Last time they came within three points of victory so, on paper at least, there is still a chance that Saints can march all the way to next month’s final in Cardiff.All the evidence would suggest, though, that Leinster are a more formidable force this year than last while Northampton had be initially resolute to see off a hard-edged Castres team who competed strongly until two tries in five minutes early in the second half from the fit-again George Furbank and the man of the moment Henry Pollock cracked their resistance. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago The horrifying truth about first cousin marriages in Britain

Evidence suggests inbreeding heightens the risk of birth defects and developmental delays, such as learning and speech problems.

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6 d. ago Prince Harry makes surprise visit to Ukraine for very touching reason

Former Royal Prince Harry paid a visit to the Superhumans Centre, an orthopaedic clinic in Lviv Ukraine that treats and rehabilitates wounded soldiers and civilians

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6 d. ago Scientists reveal what REALLY caused collapse of Roman Empire

A new study has found new evidence to suggest that a little-known factor played an important role in the Eastern Roman Empire's collapse 572 years ago.

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7 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing star opens up on 'surprising' reason for quitting 'It was time to move on'

Strictly Come Dancing star has opened up on the real reason she quit the BBC show

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8 d. ago New evidence suggests surprise reason behind fall of Roman Empire

Discovery of ‘unusual rocks’ may confirm an ice age caused the fall of the Roman empire

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9 d. ago Republican senator claims video floating killing of journalists was a ‘joke’

Oklahoma’s Markwayne Mullin downplays comments suggesting lawmakers could shoot journalists over disputesUS politics live – latest updatesThe Republican US senator and Donald Trump loyalist Markwayne Mullin has evidently sought to backtrack from comments suggesting politicians could “handle our differences” with journalists by shooting and killing them, insisting he was trying to make a joke.The Oklahoma lawmaker, a former mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, on Saturday posted to X a video of himself at a stairway in the US Capitol building recounting the tale of the newspaper columnist Charles Kincaid. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Woody Harrelson reveals surprising reason he turned down top role on The White Lotus

The actor, 63, was considered to play the role of both Sam Rockwell's character Frank and Rick, who is currently played by Walton Goggins.

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1 week ago Endometriosis: Trauma and genetics may increase risk of chronic condition

Growing evidence suggests mental health may contribute to an increased risk on endometriosis. Dora Koller and Renato Polimanti reports

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1 week ago The Guardian view on Israel’s killing of paramedics: a new atrocity in an unending conflict | Editorial

Impunity over Palestinian deaths in Gaza will lead to further cases like this massacre of rescue and healthcare workersAfter 18 months of slaughter, it is still possible to be shocked by events in Gaza. More than 50,000 people have been killed, according to Palestinian health authorities. More are starving because Israel has cut off aid. The offensive is intensifying again – with 100 children killed or maimed each day since Israel resumed heavy strikes last month, the UN reports.Even so, Israel’s killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers is particularly chilling. Though they died on 23 March, it took days for Israel to grant access to the site, the UN said. Another man was last seen in Israeli custody. Two grounds for seeing this not only as tragic but as a war crime stand out. The first is that the UN says the men were shot “one by one”, and a forensic expert said that preliminary evidence “suggests they were executed, not from a distant range”, given the “specific an...

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1 week ago Eamonn Holmes makes 'surprise career move' as reason live show was axed unveiled

Eamonn Holmes is set to take on a new change in his career after the GB News host's live theatre show was cancelled at the last minute - and now the reason why has been revealed

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1 week ago Scientists reveal the surprising reason why some farts smell worse than others

Experts have lifted the lid on why some farts smell worse than others - and how the stench could provide clues about what's going on in your gut.

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2 w. ago The ruins that could prove the Bible was TRUE: Bombshell find at 'Armageddon' vindicates the holy book's account, archaeologists claim

A grisly Bible story about an ancestor of Jesus may be true, jaw-dropping new evidence from a site dubbed 'Armageddon' suggests.

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2 w. ago Protein is being added to yoghurt, bread and coffee. We might have gone too far

Current evidence suggests around 20g-30g of protein at each meal supports muscle maintenance

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2 w. ago Protein is being added to yoghurt, bread and coffee – how much is too much?

Current evidence suggests around 20g-30g of protein at each meal supports muscle maintenance

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2 w. ago Cynthia Ozick: ‘Alice in Wonderland seems calculatedly cruel’

The American author on the wonder of Little Women, re-evaluating Lolita and her belated discovery of ThoreauMy earliest reading memory Andrew Lang’s Fairy books – the blue, yellow and violet ones. And the unadulteratedly grim Brothers Grimm, evocative phrases like “avenue of trees”, the now and then alluring English archaisms, the always expected three sisters or sons, the youngest first despised and then victorious.The book that changed me as a teenager A late teenager, at 17, and it was two books nearly simultaneously, both histories. One was Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in dazzling prose. The other was Heinrich Graetz’s 19th-century History of the Jews, translated from the German, far out of date but distinctly not dated. (It was revelatory to learn much later that Kafka was immersed in this multivolume work.) Together they gave me a sense of the long and intertwined corridors of the past, and a conviction that a mind shorn of history is vacuous. Continue...

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