By CAITLIN LENG Published: 15:39 BST, 19 June 2026 | Updated: 15:58 BST, 19 June 2026 Racing’s most glamorous event has been in full swing all week as racegoers enjoy Royal Ascot’s sunshine and refreshments – but it appears a day at the races can get a little too much…
Annie Easley, a hero of NASA photo of the day for June 19, 2026
Annie Easley at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. (Image credit: NASA) It’s Juneteenth in the U.S. today (June 19), a federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in America. Though the Civil War ended in April of 1865, it wasn’t until June 19 that same year when Union soldiers officially…
Think you’re eating healthy? You may be missing this heart-protecting nutrient
Adding foods like blueberries, plums, blackberries, broad beans, and cherries to your daily diet, especially when paired with green tea, could be a simple way to support heart health, according to new research. A large international study led by scientists from the University of Reading, Harvard Medical School, the University…
Mother and child in critical condition after being swallowed into ocean by ANOTHER monstrous California wave… just days after college students were killed by breaker
By LAURA PARNABY, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER Published: 15:08 BST, 19 June 2026 | Updated: 15:26 BST, 19 June 2026 A mother and child have been rushed to hospital after a monstrous ‘sneaker wave’ swallowed them into the ocean off the California shore. The pair, who have not yet been…
Climate fiction envisions the future of hurricanes and sea level rise » Yale Climate Connections
by Jeff Masters, Yale Climate Connections June 19, 2026 The future of climate change and hurricanes is beset with huge unknowns – both scientifically and culturally – because the situation is so unique and unprecedented in human history. Given these unknowns, the climate fiction (cli-fi) genre is useful for envisioning…
More than 1,100 small boat migrants reach Britain in four days, with more on the way, as smugglers cash in on the heatwave
More than 1,100 small boat migrants have reached Britain in just four days, with more on the way, as people traffickers exploit the heatwave. There were 392 arrivals on Thursday, official Home Office figures confirmed, in addition to 710 on Monday. It brought the four-day tally to 1,102 and pushed…
Want to start stargazing? Here’s why June is the perfect time for newcomers
Each November in the Northern Hemisphere, the astronomy world cranks up a gear. As Orion’s Belt and the bright stars of winter appear in the east just after an early sunset, telescopes are added to Christmas lists. True darkness has arrived — long winter nights when stargazing sessions can go…
Scientists discover remnants of Jellyfish Nebula’s ‘sibling’ supernova
Millions of years ago two massive stars circled each other in a cosmic dance. Then one of the stars went supernova. The blast likely flung the exploded star’s companion across space, setting it adrift in the cosmos for tens of thousands of years before it, too, succumbed to the same…
Drug trafficking arrest rocks Melbourne footy club: Diamond Creek player Keahn Jeremaia charged over alleged meth haul
Inside the concreter’s life on Melbourne’s party and festival scene Police allege the 25-year-old was found with 11kg of meth during a raid Jeremaia faces a possible life sentence if found guilty By PAUL SHAPIRO, SENIOR NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 14:10 BST, 19 June 2026 | Updated: 14:14 BST, 19…
Moment three of UK’s most dangerous prisoners storm child killer’s cell and stab him to death – as they each receive whole life terms for murder
This is the moment three of Britain’s most dangerous prisoners stormed the cell of a notorious child killer at a maximum-security prison before stabbing him to death in a five-minute frenzy. Gangland assassin Mark Fellows, known as ‘The Iceman’, Lee Newell – who previously murdered another child killer in jail…