23 h. ago Toxic algae hits vast US lake just in time to spoil July 4 swimming and boating

Exposure to the blooms can result in liver and kidney failure, inflammation — and maybe even death

Events

67 h. ago Elizabeth Hurley, 60, sizzles in a plunging tiger print swimsuit as she reveals her and new boyfriend Billy Ray Cyrus' special song

The actress and model, 60, set pulses racing as she posed aboard a boat in a plunging tiger-print swimsuit that showed off her sensational figure.

Politics

4 d. ago Boy, five, and his grandmother are blown two miles out to sea on a lilo after she rushed to help him and was unable to swim them back to shore

In nail-biting footage, the coast guard swims out to the boy from his boat with a rubber ring around his torso after having picked up the grandmother only moments before.

Politics

3 w. ago ‘We were sinking. I let her go’: how growing numbers of women are risking all to reach Europe by boat

The tragic drowning of seven women and girls just metres from the port of La Restinga has highlighted the growing number of female migrants crossing to the Canary Islands from west AfricaThe four women and three girls were just metres from the pier in the port of La Restinga in El Hierro, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, when they drowned on 28 May. Rescue teams had begun disembarking the first people early that morning when the vessel capsized.Photos and videos of the chaotic scenes show the boat partially submerged and completely overturned, with several people struggling to swim around it and others trying to climb on to the wrecked boat. Underneath, about 15 women and girls were trapped and fighting to get to the surface. Seven would not make it. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Stacey Solomon puts on a very leggy display in a white swimsuit before slipping into a black bikini during Lake Como work trip

The busy mum of five, who has jetted to the idyllic location to shoot with her haircare brand Rehab, put on a very leggy display in a white swimsuit while posing with her products on a boat.

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3 w. ago Dead elephants and feral sea lions: how poisonous algal blooms harm the planet

As the Earth heats up, the amount of algae in our waterways is rapidly increasing, transforming the colour of lakes and killing entire ecosystemsBefore the elephants collapsed, they walked in aimless circles. Some fell head first, dying where they stood moments earlier; their carcasses scattered near watering holes across the Okavango delta. The unexplained deaths in May 2020 alarmed conservationists. By July, at least 350 elephants had died and nobody knew why.“The animals all had their tusks, so poaching was unlikely. A lot of them had obviously died relatively suddenly: they had dropped on to their sternums, which was indicating a sudden loss of muscle function or neural capacity,” says Niall McCann, director of the conservation group National Park Rescue. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Ryan Reynolds' new £50m purchase and net worth after divorce from Hollywood actress

The Wrexham AFC co-owner has accumulated a vast fortune from a string of box office hits and a number of savvy investments

Economics