A necklace has emerged as a potential vital clue that could help find an Australian tourist who vanished in California three weeks ago. Sally Grace Contarino, 26, was due to fly home to Melbourne on June 21, but did not make her flight and has not been heard from since. She was last…
Trump throws new DHS chief Markwayne Mullin under the bus after ICE bowed to Democrats in Maine
By PHILLIP NIETO, US POLITICAL REPORTER Published: 13:45 BST, 15 July 2026 | Updated: 14:40 BST, 15 July 2026 Donald Trump has reversed an order forcing ICE agents to halt vehicle stops targeting undocumented migrants following deadly shootings in Maine and Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin ordered ICE officers…
Volunteer Measures Record Louisiana Rainfall
“I didn’t sign up to try to measure a new record or anything”, said Matt Carnicle, a volunteer for the NASA-sponsored Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network, or CoCoRaHS, project. Carnicle measured a whopping 29.06 inches of rainfall on June 18th, 2026, breaking an all-time 24-hour record for the…
Police arrest man for threatening to shoot Nigel Farage after former MP Ann Widdecombe was killed in ‘targeted attack’
By MATT STRUDWICK, SENIOR NEWS REPORTER Published: 14:02 BST, 15 July 2026 | Updated: 14:14 BST, 15 July 2026 Police have arrested a man for threatening to shoot and kill Nigel Farage. The man was arrested on Tuesday in London after a post on X warned the Reform UK leader: ‘I…
Millions of middle-aged Britons face waiting longer for state pensions because retirement age ‘will be raised earlier’
Millions of people face waiting longer for their state pensions amid claims the Government has decided to speed up the age rise. The Treasury has told its OBR watchdog that the threshold will increase to 68 between 2037 and 2039. That is seven years earlier than the 2044-2046 timetable currently…
NASA’s Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an exoplanet, hiding within one of the most intensely studied planetary systems in our Milky Way galaxy. The young, nearby star Beta Pictoris was already known to host two giant planets: Beta Pictoris…
August’s solar eclipse inspires science involving jets, balloons and Einstein’s general theory of relativity
On August 12 the sky will go dark for just two minutes and 18 seconds, at longest, across a swath of the world that includes Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain—and scientists everywhere will be scrambling to gather as much data as they possibly can. Total solar eclipses offer rare and…
Tears for Keir! Reeves weeps and Labour MPs give a standing ovation at Starmer’s last PMQs… after they booted him out of No10 for disastrous two years
Labour MPs gave Keir Starmer a standing ovation at his last PMQs today – despite brutally ousting him after a disastrous two years in power. The premier paid an emotional tribute to his family and insisted he was leaving the country in a better place as he signed off with: ‘To my…
Families like mine industrialized the South. We paid the price in air pollution. » Yale Climate Connections
by Jilisa Milton, Yale Climate Connections July 15, 2026 As a kid, I remember the mornings when the air carried a metallic smell, before I had the language to understand what it meant. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, in a family of generations of steel and domestic workers. As…
Rural speed limit should be cut to 20mph, Government says as it tells councils to narrow roads and install bollards to protect cyclists
Speed limits on rural roads in towns and villages across England should be cut to 20mph, according to government guidance. The guidance says that councils should also consider narrowing roads and use more bollards in a bid to protect cyclists and suggests removing the centre line separating the two lanes of…