37 m. ago Women's rights activists rally in Belgium fearing US plans for birth control supplies

Dozens of women’s rights activists have rallied near the U.S. Embassy in Brussels to protest what plans by President Donald Trump's administration to destroy millions of dollars in family planning supplies meant for women living in hardship in Africa

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1 hour ago Charlie Kirk's friend gives harrowing account of frantic race through traffic to get the influencer to hospital after he was shot: 'We were giving CPR but he was with Jesus... but we had to try'

Christian author Frank Turek, 63, was in the car with the right wing activist after he was killed during a question-and-answer session at Utah Valley University.

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1 hour ago Packed flight forced to circle skies around French airport after air traffic controller fell asleep

‘In a career of several decades, I have never had to handle such a situation,’ said the plane’s captain

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2 h. ago You're eating Maltesers wrong! Scientist reveals the best way to consume the treat

Many of us nibble off the outer chocolate before devouring the centre, or suck the treat without chewing. However, Megan Rushman, a scientist at Mars, claims there's a better technique.

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2 h. ago Strictly's Amy Dowden talks of 'taking control' in emotional message

The Caerphilly ballroom dancer shared what she was doing two years ago from that day

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2 h. ago Ariana Grande fans demand answers after 'no tickets' available in London O2 general sale

Tickets went on sale for the Ariana Grande Eternal Sunshine tour in the UK

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2 h. ago Packed plane heading to tourist hotspot spends hour circling runway for astonishing reason

After a French air traffic controller nodded off at his desk and left runway lights switched off, aircrew were forced to take desperate measures in order to ensure a safe landing

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2 h. ago Man with Covid for over two years became virus incubator, scientists find

Findings confirm that coronavirus can evolve into variants of concern in people with compromised immunity

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3 h. ago You're eating Maltesers wrong! Scientist reveals the best way to consume the treat 

Many of us nibble off the outer chocolate before devouring the centre, or suck the treat without chewing. However, Megan Rushman, a scientist at Mars, claims there's a better technique.

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3 h. ago The Federal Reserve’s independence is about to be tested like never before

Donald Trump wants drastic rate cuts – and his campaign to exert greater political control over the Fed continues apaceThe time has come to ban the “revolving door” between the White House and the Federal Reserve, two academics argued last year. Doing so would be “critical to reducing the incentives for officials to act in the short-term political interests of the president”, they wrote.Eight months ago, the two writers – Dan Katz and Stephen Miran – joined the Trump administration in senior roles. On Tuesday, Miran, the chair of the US Council of Economic Advisers, walked into the Fed as a governor. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Chimps consume a pint of lager’s worth of alcohol every day in fruit, scientists find

Wild chimpanzees in Africa are consuming 14 grams of ethanol each day

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4 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden 'took control' as she shares emotional 'two years' memory

The professional dancer is preparing for her return to the ballroom this year after a difficult two years

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4 h. ago Scientists declare ‘pivotal step’ in bringing back extinct dodo

American biotech firm claims it is on course to recreate a living bird in as little as five years

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4 h. ago Andrew Cavenagh jets in to take 'full control' of Rangers crisis as Russell Martin tests 49ers golden rule

The disappointing start to the season under Russell Martin has seen tensions skyrocket at Ibrox

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4 h. ago Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think

The phenomenal response to an article we published on this question led to detailed cognitive research – and the findings have implications that go way beyond gamersFive years ago, on the verge of the first Covid lockdown, I wrote an article asking what seemed to be an extremely niche question: why do some people invert their controls when playing 3D games? A majority of players push down on the controller to make their onscreen character look down, and up to make them look up. But there is a sizeable minority who do the opposite, controlling their avatars like a pilot controls a plane, pulling back to go up. For most modern games, this requires going into the settings and reconfiguring the default controls. Why do they still persist?I thought a few hardcore gamers would be interested in the question. Instead, more than one million people read the article, and the ensuing debate caught the attention of Dr Jennifer Corbett (quoted in the original piece) and Dr Jaap Munneke, then base...

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4 h. ago The island that banned hives: can honeybees actually harm nature?

On a tiny Italian island, scientists conducted a radical experiment to see if the bees were causing their wild cousins to declineOff the coast of Tuscany is a tiny island in the shape of a crescent moon. An hour from mainland Italy, Giannutri has just two beaches for boats to dock. In summer, hundreds of tourists flock there, hiking to the red and white lighthouse on its southern tip before diving into the clear waters. In winter, its population dwindles to 10. The island’s rocky ridges are coated with thickets of rosemary and juniper, and in warmer months the air is sweetened by flowers and the gentle hum of bees.“Residents are people who like fishing, or being alone, or who have retired. Everyone has their story,” says Leonardo Dapporto, associate professor at the University of Florence.Giannutri island’s remote location made it a perfect open-air laboratory for the bee experiments. Photographs: Giuseppe Nucci Continue reading...

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5 h. ago After quitting the US, Britain seemed like a sanctuary from Trump’s Maga movement. Now I wonder, for how long? | Emma Brockes

I was the envy of the friends I’d left behind. Now it seems prudent to assess how much that nativism will truly take root hereThis time last year, I had just moved back to Britain from the US and was enjoying the almost universal envy of American friends. While they were looking down the barrel of a second Trump presidency with its guarantee of chaos and division, we had elected Keir Starmer by a landslide and were feeling pretty pleased with ourselves. I remember people congratulating me on the prescience of my move, which I absolutely took even though politics hadn’t been part of my decision (not least because, for most of 2024, I had assumed Trump would lose). Anyway, here we are a year later and who’s laughing now?I guess the answer to that is Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party, which has somehow managed to harness the anger, disappointment and shame felt by large numbers of people who voted for and were then let down by Brexit, and are now in search of another fire to light. ...

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5 h. ago I quit the US and Britain seemed like a sanctuary from Trump’s Maga movement. Now I wonder, for how long | Emma Brockes

I was the envy of the friends I’d left behind. Now it seems prudent to assess how much that nativism will truly take root hereThis time last year, I had just moved back to Britain from the US and was enjoying the almost universal envy of American friends. While they were looking down the barrel of a second Trump presidency with its guarantee of chaos and division, we had elected Keir Starmer by a landslide and were feeling pretty pleased with ourselves. I remember people congratulating me on the prescience of my move, which I absolutely took even though politics hadn’t been part of my decision (not least because, for most of 2024, I had assumed Trump would lose). Anyway, here we are a year later and who’s laughing now?I guess the answer to that is Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party, which has somehow managed to harness the anger, disappointment and shame felt by large numbers of people who voted for and were then let down by Brexit, and are now in search of another fire to light. ...

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6 h. ago Global water cycle is more erratic and harder to predict, UN scientists warn

The World Meteorological Organisation’s 2024 state of global water resources report outlines the world’s freshwater availability and water storage.

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9 h. ago Trump celebrates Jimmy Kimmel suspension; some networks replace show with Charlie Kirk tribute – live

ABC says show will be off-air ‘indefinitely’ following complaints about host’s comments on the killing of rightwing activist KirkDonald Trump has claimed his administration has reached a deal with China to keep TikTok operating in the US, amid uncertainty over what shape the final agreement will take, with suggestions from the Chinese side that Beijing would retain control of the algorithm that powers the site’s video feed.“We have a deal on TikTok ... We have a group of very big companies that want to buy it,” Trump said on Tuesday, without providing further details. Continue reading...

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