Astronomers have spotted a mysterious cloud in the shape of a bar 2,600 light-years from Earth. It appears in the Ring nebula, also called Messier 57, which consists of the glowing remains of what was once a sun-like star in the constellation Lyra. Researchers said it is possible the cloud of iron atoms in the […]
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Two people, including a 12-year-old boy, are reported to be critically ill after separate shark attacks in Sydney, the third incident in two days. The boy had been jumping off rocks with friends late on Sunday afternoon, off Shark Beach in Vaucluse, when he was bitten. Police said he was pulled from the water by
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Andrew Rosindell has become the second Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK within a week. The MP for Romford, Essex, announced on Sunday evening he had decided to resign from his position as a shadow foreign office minister in Kemi Badenoch’s frontbench and as a member of the Conservative Party. The move came after
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Keir Starmer had wanted this week to get on with his “cost of living tour” of the country to tap into voters’ concerns in this all-important election year. Donald Trump’s Greenland threat obstructed that: Over the weekend, the prime minister and his team have been locked in talks in Downing Street, and with European allies,
The government has pulled an amendment to its proposed Hillsborough Law amid concerns from campaigners and some MPs that intelligence agencies could use it to “hide serious failures” from the public. It has also withdrawn the legislation from Monday’s parliamentary agenda entirely after initially planning for its report stage and third reading to go ahead and then bring
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Thousands of people in Kent are once again experiencing water supply issues days after similar disruption. An estimated 4,500 properties in several rural areas around Maidstone and hundreds more in Tunbridge Wells are experiencing little to no water, South East Water (SEW) said. The company put the issues down to an electrical fault at a
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At least 16 people have been killed and nearly 20,000 people have fled to safety after wildfires, as a “state of catastrophe” was declared in Chile. Firefighters were battling 24 different fires across the country on Sunday morning, with the worst burning in the Nuble and Bio Bio regions, where the government declared an emergency.
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The Speaker of the US House of Representatives has said he wished America had been able to acquire the London site slated for a controversial Chinese “super embassy”. Mike Johnson, of the Republican Party, said there was “some symbolism” behind the fact that China had been able to acquire the site at the Royal Mint
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was found seriously injured in the street last night, police said. Officers were called to Catherine Gardens in Thorpe St Andrew, outside Norwich, just before 11.45pm on Saturday following reports of a woman injured in the street. Emergency services attended but the woman,
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