59 m. ago Isaac Newton’s beer mug to go on show in Royal Society exhibition in London

Though scientist was not thought to be a great drinker, he may have used beer as an ingredient in the homemade ink in which he wrote his greatest workIssac Newton has long been a familiar figure in museums around the world. Now, one of the famed scientist’s most prized possessions is due to go on display for the first time in 160 years: his beer mug.The wooden mug will be on public display at the Royal Society, in central London, from 4 March, alongside items including Newton’s greatest work, the Principia, and the scientist’s death mask, which was prepared shortly after his death to serve as a likeness for sculptures. Continue reading...

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59 m. ago Why women and children will die because of 'hard man' Keir Starmer's aid budget cut

By taking life-saving funds from the world’s most vulnerable women and children, Keir Starmer has abandoned Labour’s principles and the party’s recent manifesto pledge

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59 m. ago ‘I don’t want to make money from a baby – that’s not what surrogacy is about for me’

Charlotte Johnson-Daniels, 41, a preschool teacher who lives in Kent with her husband, James, tells Charlotte Cripps why, after having five children of her own, she decided to help childless couples and become a surrogate in 2022, giving birth to the first baby in June 2024, and embarking on her second surrogacy journey this year

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73 m. ago Second Musk email arrives ordering all federal employees to justify their roles

New round of emails from ‘Doge’ department begin appearing as early as Friday

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86 m. ago Marco Rubio demands Zelensky apologize after heated Oval Office exchange

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to apologize after his meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office turned ugly.

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1 hour ago Zelensky inundated with messages of support from world leaders after Trump berates him in Oval Office meeting

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s social media site was flooded with moving messages of support from leaders around the world, including the U.S., after he was mocked and yelled at by President Donald Trump Friday in a meeting in the Oval Office.

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1 hour ago The world's most famous sled dog race is longer than ever. Here's a look at Iditarod, by the numbers

The world's most famous sled dog race will have its longest course ever this year

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1 hour ago Armand Duplantis hits high notes before soaring to 11th pole vault world record

Olympic champion clears 6.27m at meet in Clermont-FerrandSwede releases first song Bop under nickname ‘Mondo’ on same daySweden’s Armand Duplantis soared 6.27 metres to shatter the world pole vault record for a staggering 11th time at the All Star Perche meet in Clermont-Ferrand, France after releasing his debut song earlier the same day.The two-time Olympic and world champion cleared the record height on his first attempt on Friday to break his previous global mark of 6.26 set in Silesia in August, sparking track-side fireworks that lit up the arena. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago From Cabinet secretary to doomsday president: What being a designated survivor is like

The designated survivor for a president's address to Congress starts the day as a Cabinet secretary and ends it that way, too, God willing

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1 hour ago Florida Man Games return for Round 2 as teams vie to be the world’s worst superhero

The Florida Man Games are back for Round 2, as teams from around the state gather to prove they have what it takes to join the ranks of the world’s worst superhero

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1 hour ago Gunshots and a surge of panic: footage shows last moments of boy, 12, killed in the West Bank

Two children a week are killed in the West Bank. Two cameras recorded the circumstances of one such deathThe last time Nassar al-Hammouni talked to his son, Ayman, it was by telephone and the 12-year-old was overflowing with plans for the coming weekend, and for the rest of his life. He had joined a local football team and planned to register at a karate club that weekend. When he grew up, he told Nassar, he was going to become a doctor, or better still an engineer to help his father in the construction job that took him away from their home in Hebron every week.None of that – the football, the karate or his imagined future career – will happen now. Last Friday, two days after the call to his father, Ayman was killed, shot by Israeli fire, video footage seen by the Guardian suggests. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Thousands of households could CANCEL their energy bill if their supplier has made this major error

Consumer rights expert Martyn James explains everything you need to know about 'back billing' and the strict rules your energy supplier must follow

Science

1 hour ago World Cup winner now unrecognisable with grey hair as he looks more like TV chef

World Cup winner and former Juventus defender Gianluca Zambrotta looks unrecognisable over 10 years since hanging up his boots, with him baring more of a resemblance to a TV chef

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2 h. ago Scots schoolkids go viral on TikTok with hilarious packed lunch reviews

Charlie Sham and Jack Simms, both 17, started a TikTok account just weeks ago and have amassed millions of views around the world for their take on the lack of nutrition most school kids go for at lunchtime.

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2 h. ago World's oldest people expert shares one 'overlooked secret' to living a longer life

Dan Buettner has spent his career researching the world's 'Blue Zones', where people are reportedly more likely to live to 100

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3 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: ‘Not good for both sides’ says Zelenskyy of stunning Trump exchange

Zelenskyy regrets clash but says Kyiv won’t enter peace talks without security guarantees against another offensive. What we know on day 1,102See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageAfter an extraordinary exchange with US president Donald Trump at the White House, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an appearance on Fox News in which he said the public row was “not good for both sides.” But Zelenskyy said Trump – who insists Putin is ready to end the three-year grinding war – needs to understand that Ukraine can’t change its attitudes toward Russia on a dime. Zelenskyy added that Ukraine won’t enter peace talks with Russia until it has security guarantees against another offensive. “It’s so sensitive for our people,” Zelenskyy said. “And they just want to hear that America (is) on our side, that America will stay with us. Not with Russia, with us. That’s it.”After the tense exchange and shortly before departing for his Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida for the weekend, Trum...

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4 h. ago Full list of 30 best destinations you must visit across the world in 2025

Lonely Planet has released it's Best in Travel list for 2025 and the list of 30 destinations spotlights four European cities worth exploring this year

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4 h. ago Calls for Donald Trump's state visit to UK to be scrapped after Volodymyr Zelensky spat

Donald Trump became petulant towards Volodymyr Zelensky in a tense televised blowout in the Oval Office on Friday - and reaction across the world has been fierce

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4 h. ago How China's secretly preparing for an invasion of Taiwan that'll make Ukraine look like a tea party and could end in a hellscape engulfing the world

Hellscape. That is the US military codename for the defence of Taiwan. Tens of thousands of autopilot kamikaze drones will first turn the skies black and then the land and seas blood-red.

Society

4 h. ago Elon Musk accuses rival billionaire of trying to ‘destroy’ Trump to stop ‘Epstein List’ from coming out

‘Why was Reid Hoffman so intent on destroying Trump?’ Elon Musk asked Joe Rogan before agreeing with Rogan’s claims that it was to prevent the ‘list from coming out.’

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