Thu 16 April 2026: In recent years, residents of Spain, France and the UK have looked up to see an eerie sight: deep orange sunrises and skies thick with a yellowish haze. These hazy skies often deposit “blood rain”, rust-colored precipitation that leaves a fine grit on cars and windows. These events are caused by […]
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Thu 16 April 2026: Scientists expect an asteroid the size of three football fields to pass near Earth in three years, making it possible for scientists to study the colossal space rock from close range, NASA said on Wednesday. The asteroid Apophis, named after the ancient Egyptian god known as the “God of Chaos,” will […]
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Wed 15 April 2026: Imagine you are planning the funeral music for a loved one who has died. You can’t remember their favourite song, so you try to login to their Spotify account. Then you realise the account login is inaccessible, and with it has gone their personal history of Spotify playlists, annual “wrapped” analytics, […]
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Wed 15 April 2026: A Frenchman won a Picasso painting worth 1 million euros ($1.18 million) in a non-profit raffle on Tuesday. The winner, Ari Hodara, a 59-year-old software engineer from Paris, was selected at random at Christie’s auction house in Paris from 120,000 tickets sold at 100 euros apiece. The raffle’s proceeds will fund […]
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Tue 14 April 2026: The UK government has announced plans to eliminate high-sugar and deep-fried foods from school menus as part of a comprehensive reform aimed at combating childhood obesity and enhancing nutrition. The reforms, announced by the Department for Education on Monday, would update school food standards for the first time in more than a decade. Schools would […]
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Tue 14 April 2026: Introduced by Pablo Escobar in the 1990s, the hippos are a tourist attraction but a headache for authorities and locals. Colombia has approved plans to cull dozens of hippos roaming across a region in the centre of the country. Environment Minister Irene Velez announced the decision on Monday, with up to […]
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Mon 13 April 2026: It’s a simple thing we encounter many times every single week – often while in a hurry. You pull up at a parking spot, scan a QR code and pay within seconds. Or you sit down at a cafe, scan a code to view the menu and order your meal. […]
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Sat 11 April 2026: My earliest memories are of Methodist Mission quarters in the diocese of Dilkusha, Fiji. Dilkusha, the name of a minor Indian principality, was mentioned in E.M. Forster’s classic novel A Passage to India: its name literally means “Heart’s Delight” in Hindi–Urdu. Dilkusha was the Indian wing of the much larger Fijian diocese […]
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Fri 10 April 2026: We’ve all done it. You scroll past a 30-second video claiming a simple home remedy cures anxiety, or a “citizen expert” on social media declares that a new government policy is a conspiracy. It feels right. It matches what you already suspected. You like it, share it, and suddenly it’s in […]
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Fri 10 April 2026: The US fertility rate fell to a new record low in 2025, continuing a nearly two-decade downward trend, according to new official data released Thursday. The fertility rate fell to 53.1 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age, down from 53.8 in 2024, the National Center for Health Statistics said. Total births also […]
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