By FRANCINE WOLFISZ, NEWS REPORTER Published: 21:44 BST, 19 June 2026 | Updated: 22:13 BST, 19 June 2026 Edinburgh Airport has been evacuated amid reports of a ‘potentially suspicious item’ having been found. Hundreds of holidaymakers were seen being ushered out of the building this evening as specialist bomb squads…
‘Star City’s’ Priya Kansara and Josef Davies on anchoring their characters and adding costume touches (interview)
Apple TV’s “For All Mankind” spinoff series, “Star City,” places viewers directly behind the scenes of the hush-hush Soviet space program community in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s to witness all the harrowing missions, love triangles, espionage, sabotage, interrogation, and torture of those turbulent times. And believe us, there’s…
We’ve found a mysterious substance on Titan and Pluto
Titan in ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths, as captured by the Cassini probe in 2004 NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute A strange substance is hiding on the surfaces of both Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and researchers aren’t sure what it is. Titan’s thick atmosphere means it is extremely difficult to study its…
Massive fire breaks out at luxury beach resort popular with American tourists forcing guests to run for their lives
By WILL POTTER, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER and LAURA PARNABY, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER Published: 20:46 BST, 19 June 2026 | Updated: 21:34 BST, 19 June 2026 A huge fire has broken out at a popular tourist resort in the Dominican Republic, sending panicked families running for their lives. Shocking…
Bobby on the seat! Moment armed police officer borrows teenager’s BIKE to chase fleet-footed shoplifter now jailed for £6,000 of thefts
By FRANCINE WOLFISZ, NEWS REPORTER Published: 21:05 BST, 19 June 2026 | Updated: 21:05 BST, 19 June 2026 A prolific shoplifter has finally felt the weight of the law – after an armed policeman chased him down using a teenager’s bicycle. The officer was running after thief Phillip Padgett, 32,…
Faecal transplant makes the brains of old mice act young again
A scanning electron micrograph of the intestinal lining of a mouse, with several bacteria (green) and one red blood cell (red) CJC Copyright: IKELOS GmbH/Dr. Christopher B. Jackson/Science Photo Library A faecal microbiome transplant (FMT) could make an aged brain as adaptable as a young one. Our gut microbiome has…
Netanyahu secretly plotting to TORPEDO Trump’s Iran peace deal in intelligence bombshell
US spy agencies have warned Donald Trump that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to torpedo his fragile peace deal with Iran to save his own political skin. Netanyahu, who faces a general election in the fall, is expected to escalate strikes on Iran’s proxy terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon…
MPs launch initial probe into Peter Murrell’s ‘epic crime spree’
By GRAHAM GRANT, SCOTTISH HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR Published: 20:01 BST, 19 June 2026 | Updated: 20:06 BST, 19 June 2026 MPs have begun a preliminary probe of Peter Murrell’s ‘epic crime spree’ ahead of the former SNP chief executive’s sentencing next week. The estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon faces sentencing…
The most unpredictable meteor shower of the year peaks next week. Here’s what to expect
Heads up, stargazers! The notoriously unpredictable June Bootid meteor shower is set to peak next week — and anything could happen. While most annual meteor showers follow a fairly predictable script, the June Bootids have a habit of surprising astronomers. Most years, the shower produces only a few meteors per…
Scientists pop the cork on the hidden chemistry inside wine bottles
In most lines of work, an office filled with wine bottles might raise eyebrows. At the Food and Wine Science & Technology laboratory, located in the heart of France’s Burgundy wine region, it would be more concerning if there weren’t any. Researchers at the lab study what happens to wine…