A retired British colonel reads some ‘sad news’: he is dead.
18 January 2021Like Lazarus, he has returned from the grave. Or so said Colonel Ron Black’s friends when they heard he was alive and well.
Like Lazarus, he has returned from the grave. Or so said Colonel Ron Black’s friends when they heard he was alive and well.
Originally published in the Sunday Times, Sunday August 31, 1986 WARNING: Holidays can damage your health. Psychologists believe that many of the millions of Britons returning to work this week wouldhave been better off staying at the office instead of taking theirannual break. Increasing evidence that holidays can cause harmful stress ratherthan provide welcome rest and […]
Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., this week tested robotic dogs on a security patrol operation. Photo from U.S. Air Force The US Air Force has unveiled an addition to its war effort: computerized, four-legged robot dogs to be used for security patrols. The Philadelphia-based technology company Ghost Robotics worked with the base’s 325th Security Squadron […]
Analysis from Public Health England shows that the number of deaths in the country from June to late October 2020 was identical to the average death rate of English men and women over the past five years. That is despite Covid’s deadly rampage in 2020.
With even Santa Claus locked down, he is arranging a special series of interatction with the world’s children.
A drone caught a close encounter between a surfer and a shark in Australia.(© Surf Life Saving NSW) A drone camera caught a close encounter between a surfer and a white shark off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, last week. These drones were immediately ahiled as the best way worldwide to gurard against […]
An artist’s image of an Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star. The ‘habitable planet’ was identified by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. (© NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech)
Guardian staff have spent a week waiting for redundancy letters only to be told they were sent with insufficient postage – and that they might be asked to pay the difference and then claim it back.
Alan Kogosowski has brought the magic of Frederic Chopin back from beyond the grave. The Australian pianist completed a unique version of the Austrian composer’s long-delayed and ultimately unfinished Third Piano Concerto in A major, Opus 46. He has now done its final revision. Correspondent.world accompanied Kogosowshi to Paris where he drew new inspiration by visiting […]