Andy Burnham’s return to Parliament was given the go-ahead by Labour’s ruling executive committee this afternoon, as they waved through permission for him to stand in the by-election. After hours of silence from NEC members, the Labour Party surprised Westminster by confirming that Mr Burnham had been granted permission without…
I thought my backyard had too much light pollution for astrophotography. This telescope proved me wrong
I live under heavily light-polluted suburban skies in Nottingham, U.K., where the glow of streetlights often drowns out all but the brightest of stars. My backyard — boxed in by rows of terraced houses — offers only a small window of visible sky, and on most nights I’m lucky if…
Dodge-driving mother’s idiotic decision that almost killed her child – as furious cop angrily berates her
An Arkansas woman and her toddler are lucky to be alive after their car spun out, flipped, and crashed during a high-speed chase with police. The Dodge Charger was filmed rolling into a side embankment before it came to a rest upside down, with a three-year-old boy running from the wreckage…
Asking AI to explain your medical results? What doctors want you to know
When Judith Miller received the results of a medical imaging study last year, the 77-year-old Wisconsin resident did what many patients nowadays do: she asked AI to explain them. Claude, a large language model (LLM) developed by the company Anthropic, obligingly laid out possible interpretations. With the chatbot’s analysis in…
Husband of doomed dive group leader says ‘something must have happened down there’ as mystery surrounds why the five attempted to explore ‘cave so deep even divers with best equipment don’t try’
A man whose marine biologist wife perished during a diving expedition in the Maldives fears ‘something must have happened down there’ as mystery surrounds the five divers’ deaths. The group, from Italy, had set off on a diving expedition on Thursday morning to explore the Vaavu atoll but never resurfaced. The…
Mars orbiter captures striking images of ‘chaos and craters’ carved by ancient floods
Stunning new images from Europe’s Mars Express orbiter reveal a rugged Martian landscape carved by catastrophic floods that once tore across the Red Planet billions of years ago. The dramatic new view, released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on May 13, spotlights Shalbatana Vallis, a sprawling Martian channel system…
Stuntwoman who worked on The Crown, Doctor Who and The Batman dies suddenly as tributes pour in
By JAKE HOLDEN, UK NEWS REPORTER Published: 16:50 BST, 15 May 2026 | Updated: 16:50 BST, 15 May 2026 A stuntwoman who worked on The Crown, Doctor Who and The Batman has died suddenly. Tributes have poured in for Jasmine Jackson Lloyd who died on April 10 following a long…
Standout female athlete, 24, dies after boat was taken without permission and crashed into dock near Boston airport
A standout soccer star tragically died in a late-night boat crash after she and her friends allegedly took the vessel on a joyride without permission. Elizabeth Dankert, 24, a former soccer player at Union College in New York, was killed in the crash late Wednesday night near Logan International Airport…
Curiosity Shakes Loose a Pesky Rock
After NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drilled a sample from this rock on April 25, 2026, it withdrew its robotic arm and pulled the entire rock off the surface with it. Engineers spent several days repositioning the arm and vibrating the drill to try and get the rock loose. When it…
Starmer launches fresh bid to cosy up to European human rights chiefs
Sir Keir Starmer will today send his top legal adviser to cosy up to European human rights chiefs and reassure them Britain is committed to the bloc’s controversial treaty. The PM asked Attorney General Lord Hermer to travel to a summit in Moldova and prioritise talks over the future of…