Alison Francis Senior Science Journalist RBG Kew The renovation will begin in 2027 and will take an estimated five years It’s a makeover on a massive scale – it involves moving 1,300 plants, replacing 16,000 panes of glass and cleaning up hundreds of tonnes of iron. This is the ambitious £50m plan to renovate the […]
Manila, Philippines – When former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in March, Sheerah Escuerdo spoke to a local television station, welcoming the politician’s detention on charges of murder linked to his war on drugs. Escuerdo, who lost her 18-year-old brother, Ephraim, to Duterte’s war, clutched a portrait of […]
BBC James Canton spent two years sitting beneath an 800-year-old oak tree near his home in Essex, watching acorns fatten and butterflies land on the massive knurled grey trunk. Sometimes he sat in the branches too. Canton, a lecturer at the University of Essex, recalls how it helped him feel a “sense of connection”. “We’re […]
Mike Waltz, former US national security adviser and US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) nominee for US President Donald Trump, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg/via Getty Images Former National Security Advisor Mike […]
FOX Weather is your Hurricane HQ. (FOX Weather) Updated at 9 a.m. ET, Tuesday, July 15, 2025 The tropical disturbance that created bands of torrential tropical downpours on Monday will move across the Florida Peninsula on Tuesday. Heavy rain with local flooding and frequent lightning is likely over the Florida Peninsula once again. Stay aware […]
Bourigault et al. 2024 Thousands of scans of each participant are recorded and stored as part of the imaging project. Here showing images of the abdomen and major organs Scientists say they can study our bodies as we age in greater detail than ever before, thanks to more than a billion scans of UK volunteers. […]
Angie Brown BBC Scotland, Edinburgh and East reporter Charlie Miller Salons Charlie Miller died on Monday at the age of 80 Top Scottish hairdresser Charlie Miller – who cut the hair of the late Sir Sean Connery, Hollywood actor Leslie Nielsen, and fashion designer Donna Karan – has died at the age of 80. His […]
Tom Edwards BBC Hereford & Worcester Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands BBC The charity offers counselling, exercise classes and training A health and wellbeing charity has said it is in desperate need of new premises after it was told to leave its current site. Simply Limitless offers counselling sessions to help support people’s mental […]
Defence Minister John Healey says about 4,500 people are in Britain or in transit under the secret programme. The United Kingdom set up a secret plan to resettle thousands of Afghan people in Britain after an official accidentally disclosed the personal details of more than 33,000 people, putting them at risk of reprisals from the […]
Mark Poynting and Justin Rowlatt BBC News Climate & Science Getty Images Reservoirs in the Midlands are showing lower levels than usual The East and West Midlands have officially entered drought, joining the North West and Yorkshire, after yet another hot and dry spell of weather. The Environment Agency announcement follows England’s driest start to […]