Moment shirtless man fails three times to throw £12,000 parcel of drugs and phone into prison – as he is jailed for nearly four years

By NOOR QURASHI, NEWS REPORTER Published: 13:10 BST, 27 August 2026 | Updated: 13:16 BST, 27 August 2026 A topless young man failed three times to throw a £12,000 parcel of illegal drugs into a prison. Joshua Smith, 30, left little to the imagination as he made unsuccessful attempts to…

Europe’s powerful Ariane 6 rocket launches 32 Amazon internet satellites to orbit

Flight VA270 | MTG-I2 | Ariane 6 | Arianespace – YouTube Watch On Europe’s most powerful rocket will fly today (Aug. 27), and you can watch the action live. An Ariane 6 is scheduled to launch the MTG-I2 weather satellite from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana today (Aug. 27),…

10 things athletes, fans, and outdoor advocates can do about climate change  » Yale Climate Connections

by Karin Kirk, Yale Climate Connections August 27, 2026 It’s been a rough summer for outdoor sports. July was the hottest month ever recorded in the contiguous U.S., and wildfire smoke has repeatedly reached unhealthy levels across large areas of the country. Soccer players competing in the World Cup had…

POLL OF THE DAY: Is AI a threat to humanity, as Bill Gates claims?

Cast your vote on the biggest talking points of the day, every day Final results will be announced in tomorrow’s poll  See more Daily Mail on Google – save us as a Preferred Source By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Published: 12:00 BST, 27 August 2026 | Updated: 12:01 BST, 27 August…

An impressive partial lunar eclipse will turn the moon an eerie red for millions of people tonight

Tonight (Aug. 27-28), the full Sturgeon Moon will slip into Earth’s shadow, creating a stunning “almost blood moon” as up to 96.2% of the lunar surface disappears into the darkest part of our planet’s shadow, the umbra. At maximum eclipse, much of the moon may take on an eerie reddish…

Celestial ‘Fashion’- Minoan And Mycenaean Rings Revealed To Be Of Extraterrestrial Origin

Jan Bartek  – AncientPages.com – People have used meteoritic iron to make tools, jewelry, ritual items, and even magical objects throughout history. The Inuit in northern Greenland made knives and scrapers from the Cape York meteorites. In pre-Columbian America, some meteorites were buried in rituals or turned into jewelry. In…

Middlesbrough ‘risks descending into carnage’ after ‘gangland revenge house fire murder’ of seven-year-old girl and her aunt ‘linked to A66 crash that killed five youths and two police officers’

Middlesbrough residents fear the town will descend into carnage if gangland attacks continue to intensify after a seven-year-old girl was killed in a house fire.  Two men, aged 31 and 23, have been arrested on suspicion of murder after Valentina Foster and her aunt Natalie McDonald, 34, died in the blaze…

On this day in space! Aug. 25, 1997: NASA launches Advanced Composition Explorer to track solar wind and so much more

On Aug. 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite to study energetic particles traveling through space. It lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a Delta II rocket and spent the next three and a half months making its way to its orbital post…

Another house is rammed in Middlesbrough amid fears of gang violence outbreak after girl, seven, was ‘murdered’ and fatal wrong-way crash

Another house in Middlesbrough was rammed today amid fears of an escalating gang violence outbreak in the town after a girl and her aunt were killed in a house fire. Valentina Foster, seven, and Natalie McDonald, 34, died in the blaze close to South Bank, where the collision that killed…

LIZ JONES: My very revealing two hours with Dolly Parton: Why her breasts looked so big, what her real hair was like beneath the wig… and her poignant parting words that never came true

I met Dolly Parton, who died yesterday at the grand ol’ age of 80 after a battle with cancer, when she was 60, or ‘sexty!’ as she exclaimed as she tried to give me a bear hug, her famous rhinestone-covered boobs getting in the way. The location was The Turning…