Roman Abramovich has been lavishly praised as a peacemaker between Ukraine and Russia — on a set of postage stamps from Madagascar. When Russian president Vladimir Putin launched his “special military operation” against Ukraine in late February and early March 2022, the British government was issuing orders to strip Abramovich of access to his billions. […]
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Can you really ‘die of a broken heart’? The answer was: not really….until scientists did a major analysis of one type of apparent heart attack. Now, though, scentists beleive it really does happen. Not in huge numbers, but, nevertheless, very significantly. And it’s rising especially among middle aged and older women. They have found that […]
Simon Forster and Emma Schofield were greeted with a cheerful “bonjour” at passport control. Odd, as they had booked a holiday flight from Manchester to Copenhagen, where the language is, usually, Danish. It was then that the couple realised they were in the French city of Beauvais, near Paris – 750 miles from their intended […]
There’s not much to make one smile about, reporting on this Covid pandemic. Here’s something irrelevant but mildly amusing: The leading health publication (HSJ, or Health Services Journal), has a top writer called James Illman. Getit? See his article. NOTE: For our section Strange as it Seems, we’re interested in other names that are either […]
The Syrian regime has been elected to a leading role in the World Health Organisation (WHO). In May, the war-torn country’s rulers won a seat on the WHO Executive Board. Throughout the course of the Syrian civil war, the Syrian regime has displaced half the country’s population. It has depopulated whole cities and villages by bombing hospitals […]
Scientists have found recordings of their unique song, dating back almost 20 years. Scientists have discovered an entirely new population of pygmy blue whales in the Indian Ocean, which have managed to evade detection for decades despite their enormous size. Researchers uncovered the secretive cetaceans by analyzing acoustic data collected by an underwater nuclear bomb detection array, […]
Fill up that mug: Having one or more cups of caffeinated coffee a day may reduce your risk of heart failure, new research suggests. There was one caveat, however: Decaffeinated coffee doesn’t appear to provide the same protection as caffeine-rich blends. “The association between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was surprising,” admitted study senior […]
A U.S. Army soldier takes a nap — which the Pentagon now recommends to combat sleep deprivation — while another holds position on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Photo by Spc. Ken Scar/U.S. Army. March 3 (UPI) — A new Defense Department report called sleep deprivation a serious detriment to readiness, adding that most service members lack adequate […]
The world has just seen astonishingly-detailed clear pictures from the surface of Mars, courtesy of an American rover called Perseverance [affectionately abbreviated to Percy]. However when BBC Newsnight proudly showed them [on February 24 2021], as a marvel of human achievement, it also linked up with a scientist in Britain. Except the picture of him […]