The great midlife exodus to Portugal: British expats have tripled in ten years with couples in their 40s and 50s lured by €20 monthly bills and €2 wine – with one commuting to London for less than the cost of her former train ticket

Spain’s appeal to expats has taken a downturn and the Middle East is, for now, a less than attractive prospect for those seeking a better quality of life in a sunnier climate.  So perhaps it’s no surprise that Portugal has become the new hotspot for midlife expats looking to escape…

See Jupiter glow beside the waxing moon after sunset on May 20

Look west after sunset on May 20 to witness the waxing crescent moon line up with bright Jupiter. The pair will remain visible for a few hours after sunset, before slipping from view below the spring horizon. The moon will appear to line up with the bright stars Castor and…

Lost for 150,000 years: Rainforest discovery upends human history

Dense tropical rainforests were long considered some of the last places early humans could survive. For decades, researchers believed our ancestors mainly stuck to open grasslands and coastal regions, avoiding the thick forests of Africa until much later in history. Evidence from West Africa is now forcing scientists to rethink…

QUENTIN LETTS: Burnham’s four-minute video is so saccharine even Walt Disney would find it sickly

Come, gawp at the grot of politics: the scandals, lies, hypocrisy, the cliches and blatant fixes, the billions wasted. Westminster’s dank day brought us all these delights. It began – hypershift of coo! – with Andy Burnham’s campaign video for the Makerfield by-election. Here was a production the late Walt…

Andy Burnham said that men who identify as women should be able to use female toilets – and only a ‘small minority’ object, he claimed

Andy Burnham faced a backlash last night over his views on single-sex spaces. Biological males who identify as female should be allowed to use women’s toilets, the Labour leadership hopeful told a meeting, in comments unearthed by the Daily Mail. And the Greater Manchester mayor said the idea that single-sex spaces…

Worker dies at SpaceX’s Starbase in leadup to Starship V3 megarocket launch

A worker died at SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas early Friday morning (May 15), as the company geared up for the debut launch of its Starship V3 megarocket. The death occurred around 4 a.m. local time on Friday, according to the San Antonio Express-News, which further reported that the…

Canley Heights: Alai Ahio, 28, shot dead in home invasion was linked to notorious Sydney rap group OneFour

Alai Ahio died from gunshot wounds Four other men remain in hospital  By KYLIE STEVENS, SENIOR BREAKING NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 03:52 BST, 20 May 2026 | Updated: 06:30 BST, 20 May 2026 An associate linked to the notorious rap group OneFour has been shot dead in what police have described…

So much for the ‘jet fuel crisis’… there’s never been a better time to grab a holiday bargain – with some almost 50% CHEAPER than last year

If you’ve been holding off booking a summer holiday over fears flight prices have soared due to the ongoing jet fuel crisis, now could be the time to act. New research reveals that it is actually cheaper to travel abroad to many of the most popular beach destinations this summer…

Fire Chars Santa Rosa Island

Channel Islands National Park, a chain of five ecologically rich islands off the coast of mainland California, is known for its diversity of plant and animal species, earning it the nickname “North America’s Galapagos.” For part of May 2026, Santa Rosa Island—the park’s second-largest island—was closed to the public as…

Emily sold pink buns as a teenager to raise cash for cancer research – but now she’s been given her own devastating diagnosis

A woman who has raised funds for breast cancer research since she was a teenager has now been diagnosed with the disease herself. Emily Harrison-Suhr, 31, from Melbourne, was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer five years ago after finding a lump in her breast. She initially dismissed concerns about it because…