A shopper who paid £15 for an old ring at a charity shop in Leicester has made thousands of pounds after auction experts linked the item to the British royal family. The rare ring turned out to be a 19th-century gold and enamel mourning ring made to mark the death of Princess Amelia, the youngest…
Germany’s Nuremberg Airport suspends flights as police investigate suspected air emergency (representative image) Germany’s Nuremberg Airport temporarily suspended flight operations on Tuesday after police received a report of a suspected aviation emergency shortly before a flight from the Greek island of Corfu was due to land.The aircraft landed safely, but operations remained suspended as police…
The research examined more than 450 snake species from around the world. Rather than looking at colour in isolation, researchers considered how snakes appeared against the backgrounds of their natural habitats. In the wild, survival often depends on staying out of sight. But for some snakes, the opposite may be true. A flash of red,…
A Delta Air Lines flight arriving from New York was evacuated. A Delta Air Lines flight arriving from New York was evacuated after landing at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday following a bomb threat, Israeli media reported. Security officials searched the aircraft but found no suspicious items.Passengers were escorted from the Airbus A330 to…
The identification tags were found among old military records at Beverly Veterans’ Services (Credit: CBS) A 104-year-old woman in Massachusetts has received her brother’s military identification tags 83 years after he died in a plane crash during World War II. Dorothy Stewart, who was 21 when her brother Bernard Parnell died in 1943, was reunited…
According to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC), Antarctic sea ice likely reached its annual maximum extent for the year on September 14. On the date, the ice covered an estimated 17.59 million square kilometres, making it the third-lowest maximum on record. It has fallen a million square kilometres or almost…
The two-day sale offered old subway signs, seats and MetroCards once used across New York City. New Yorkers waited for hours in south Brooklyn to buy old subway signs, plastic seats and other items removed from the city’s transit system at an annual sale organised by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on Sunday.The two-day sale…
Sydney’s Opal Tower declared defect-free after 8 years of repairs, relocations and legal disputes (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Sydney’s Opal Tower has been declared defect-free nearly eight years after structural cracks forced residents to leave their homes on Christmas Eve 2018. What began as an emergency evacuation at the newly built residential complex led to years…
Ralph Lauren (left) with Harold Freeman American fashion designer Ralph Lauren’s company in 2010 announced a $5 million donation to establish a cancer care centre in Harlem, New York, where many residents faced difficulties accessing medical treatment. The centre opened in 2003 through a partnership involving Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center…
PC: Davidson Institute’s account of the research Justin Bernstein, a 17-year-old student from Greenwich, Connecticut, has developed a research project exploring how genetically engineered bacteria could help slow Arctic ice melting. Named a 2025 Davidson Fellow in the science category, he received a $50,000 scholarship for his work on engineering Cryobacterium to produce reflective silica,…
