Nasa’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before – a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning of time. SpaceX launched the Spherex observatory from California, putting it on course to fly over Earth’s poles. Tagging along were…
Emma Heming Willis, the primary carer for her husband, the actor Bruce Willis, who is suffering from a rare form of dementia, has issued a statement in the wake of the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa. An investigation by local authorities concluded last week that Arakawa, 65, died of a rare…
Snow coated Cheltenham racecourse on Wednesday morning, three days after the area experienced sunny weather with highs of 18C. Parts of the UK were warmer than Barcelona and the Costa del Sol as recently as Sunday, but yellow weather warnings for ice have now been issued in the north. Oli Claydon, a spokesperson for the…
US aid deliveries to Ukraine back to previous levels, Polish foreign minister confirms Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski has just confirmed that US aid deliveries to Ukraine coming through the Polish logistics hub in Rzeszów-Jasionka have returned to previous levels seen before the brief pause. Sikorski spoke at a press conference alongside his Ukrainian counterpart…
A 13-year-old girl has been charged with murder and arson after the body of a woman was found in a house in Northamptonshire. Firefighters and police officers discovered the body of a woman in her 40s in a house in Wellingborough in the early hours of Monday after reports of a fire at the property.…
Simon Holmes à Court has denied any ties between Climate 200 and a community media organisation the Coalition claims is peddling “disinformation” and promoting teal independent candidates. The Coalition has filed a complaint to the Australian Electoral Commission about the five digital newspapers owned by Gazette News. “I don’t know a lot about Gazette,” Holmes…
Lawyers for the former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte have demanded that he be returned to Manila in a petition filed to the supreme court, as victims of the former leaders’ bloody “war on drugs” expressed jubilation. Duterte, who was flown to The Hague on Tuesday night to face charges of crimes against humanity in relation…
Traditional owners say justice has been served for their people as the high court dismissed a commonwealth appeal in a landmark compensation case. The commonwealth lost the high court battle over whether it may be liable for up to $700m in compensation for bauxite mining at Gove in north-east Arnhem Land. Gumatj leaders Djawa Yunupingu…
The growing saltwater crocodile population in the Northern Territory has led to the creatures gorging on nine times more prey than they did 50 years ago, with the apex predators contributing important nutrients to Top End waterways, new research suggests. Saltwater crocodile populations have increased exponentially in recent decades, from less than 3,000 in 1971,…
The US Department of Education intends to lay off nearly half of its workforce. The layoffs of 1,300 people were announced by the department on Tuesday and described by the education secretary, Linda McMahon, as a “significant step toward restoring the greatness of the United States education system”. In a post on X, McMahon said:…
