Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s travel email A woman has turned an abandoned ‘one euro’ Italian house into a £384,000 dream home – with a bathroom, outdoor kitchen and wine cellar. Meredith Tabbone, 45, decided to bid on a €1 house for a … Read more
The world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet global energy demand projections until 2050 and governments should stop issuing new oil, gas and coal licences, according to a major study aimed at political leaders. If governments implement the changes promised to keep the world from breaching its climate targets, no new fossil fuel … Read more
Matthew Sherman Cooper’s discovery was reassembled in New York The first stegosaurus skeleton to go under the hammer will fetch millions of dollars in New York. But the extraordinary discovery was made by chance, thousands of miles to the west during a man’s birthday walk, writes Stephen Smith. It’s every child’s dream to wander into … Read more
image source, Matthew Sherman Image title, Cooper’s discovery was reassembled in New York 1 hour ago The first stegosaurus skeleton to go under the hammer will fetch millions of dollars in New York. But the extraordinary discovery was made by chance, thousands of miles to the west during a man’s birthday walk, writes Stephen Smith. … Read more
Event details Load blog NASA’s Boeing StarlinerCrew Flight Test (CFT) June 1, 2024, 12:25 p.m Space Launch Complex 41 • Cape Canaveral Space Force Station UPDATE: All departure transportation premium tickets and entry tickets purchased for the May 6 attempt remain valid for the next attempt, currently scheduled for no earlier than … Read more
A man who died tragically at a major international airport is believed to have deliberately boarded the plane’s engine, police have revealed. The airport worker was killed in a horror incident at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam yesterday afternoon. The individual, a male employee, is said to have boarded the jet engine of a KLM Cityhopper … Read more
SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket may take off for a fourth time on June 5, with the primary objective of evaluating the second stage’s reusable heat shield as the vehicle attempts to safely re-enter the atmosphere for the first time. CEO Elon Musk said on his social media platform X that “There are a lot of … Read more
Researchers have found that elusive intermediate-mass black holes can form in dense star clusters containing anywhere from tens of thousands to millions of tightly packed stars called “globular clusters.” An intermediate-mass black hole has a mass between 100 and 10,000 suns. They are heavier than solar-mass black holes, which have a mass range between 10 … Read more
Married fraudsters who racked up huge restaurant bills and got away without paying during a shocking ‘lunch and ram’ spree have been jailed. Bernard McDonagh, 41, and Ann McDonagh, 39, were known to eat lavish three-course meals, including T-bone steaks, for their family, often leaving the food uneaten. Swansea Crown Court heard the pair, operating … Read more
image source, Yasmin Shaheen-Zaffar Image title, Yasmin Shaheen-Zaffar uses an AI chatbot to help with her writing Item information the author, Elna Schutz role, Business reporter May 30, 2024 While for many of us AI chatbots are probably just an interesting novelty, for some people they are proving to be transformative. Yasmin Shaheen-Zaffar, from North … Read more