The ‘recluse’ prime suspect in the Ann Widdecombe murder investigation was living alone after his father’s death, it was claimed today. Specialist officers from Counter Terrorism Policing have taken over the investigation into the death of the 78-year-old former minister in Devon last week. A 28-year-old white British man from…
‘It was mental’: Brits’ Ryanair flight turns into 12-hour nightmare with drunk man wrestled by air hostess, passengers screaming at captain in ‘mutiny’ and two diversions
A Ryanair flight from London Stansted to Tirana scheduled to take only three hours turned into a 12-hour nightmare after two diversions and police intervention. A source told the Daily Mail about how screaming travellers staged a ‘mutiny’ against the captain, demanding to be taken off the flight, and described…
NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes
The massive globular star cluster Omega Centauri has puzzled astronomers for decades. It should be filled with black holes left behind by exploding stars, yet evidence for them is scarce. Now, astronomers using archival data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and supportive observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have…
Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers
Elementary school students might memorize their times tables for single-digit numbers, but memorization won’t cut it when the teacher asks for three-digit multiplication. This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number by each digit of the top…
Maine driver shot and killed by ICE after trying to run over agents with his car, eyewitness says
By WILL POTTER, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER Published: 15:27 BST, 13 July 2026 | Updated: 15:37 BST, 13 July 2026 A driver has been shot dead by ICE officers in Biddeford, Maine after allegedly trying to mow down agents with his car. The victim, who has not been publicly identified,…
Aussie hospital goes to war with gym neighbours over vibrations from classes and dropping weights it says could compromise surgeries
By ASHLEY NICKEL, NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 15:05 BST, 13 July 2026 | Updated: 15:06 BST, 13 July 2026 A private hospital and gym are locked in a court battle over claims the loud noise from gym equipment is ‘like bombs being dropped’ and is risking patients’ safety. Perth Day…
Getting Vikram-1 to orbit: Inside Skyroot Aerospace’s coming bid to make spaceflight history
HYDERABAD, India — When Space.com visited Skyroot Aerospace’s Max-Q campus here in February, the company’s first orbital rocket, Vikram-1, was still coming together. Inside the company’s 55,000-square-foot (5,110 square meters) rocket factory, engineers sat before computer screens, running critical simulations and systems checks on Vikram-1’s Orbit Adjustment Module, the liquid-fueled…
Losing just 80 minutes of sleep a night could make you gain weight
Getting a little less sleep each night may have a bigger impact on your health than you realize. Researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons found that adults who cut their nightly sleep by about 80 minutes for six weeks gained an average of one pound and…
World Cup referee dies aged 38, weeks after being axed when he was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault of a teenage boy in the UK
By OLIVER TODD, DIGITAL HEAD OF SPORT Published: 13:58 BST, 13 July 2026 | Updated: 14:34 BST, 13 July 2026 Top Dutch football referee Rob Dieperink has died, aged 38, weeks after he was dropped from the World Cup over a sexual assault arrest in the United Kingdom. The Dutch…
Anti-monarchy protesters unfurl Andrew and Epstein banner in Buckingham Palace throne room
By JAKE HOLDEN, UK NEWS REPORTER Published: 13:49 BST, 13 July 2026 | Updated: 14:07 BST, 13 July 2026 Anti-monarchy protesters unfurled a banner of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Jeffrey Epstein in the Buckingham Palace throne room on Monday. Two activists from the campaign group Republic held up the huge banner which…