A plant charity is predicting a boost for wild flowers because some councils have stopped mowing verges and parks during the Covid-19 crisis. Plantlife has been urging councils for years to cut grass less often. It also wants them to delay cutting until flowers have had chance to seed. The charity says it has seen […]
Although only a small place relative to many others around the world, the UK is one of the biggest gambling hotspots. There are many reasons for this, the quality of sport on offer, the number of big annual live events and the history that people living there have had with gambling. This started with betting […]
From the swinging 60s to punk, acid house to Britpop, everyone has a favourite era in music. But is there a single year where rock and pop peaked? Maybe it came with The Beatles’ mould-breaking sonic experiments of 1968, or the mid-80s purple patch where Prince, Madonna and Michael Jackson pushed each other to ever-greater […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have figured out how to calculate the age of whale sharks – Earth’s largest fish – with some guidance from the radioactive fallout spawned by Cold War-era atomic bomb testing. FILE PHOTO: Visitors watch a whale shark at the Whale Shark Aquarium of Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Zhuhai, China September 4, […]
Issued on: 09/04/2020 – 02:43Modified: 09/04/2020 – 02:42 The fallout from the coronavirus spread that has killed more than 83,000 people and wreaked havoc on economies around the world could push around half a billion people into poverty, Oxfam said on Thursday. Advertising Read more The report released by the Nairobi-based charity ahead of next week’s International […]
Kosovo’s caretaker prime minister has assured a European Union special envoy of his commitment to resume dialogue on normalizing ties with neighboring Serbia. Albin Kurti said in a letter to envoy Miroslav Lajcak on April 8 that a deal should be accompanied by a political, economic, and financial package to “accelerate the convergence of the […]
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By Donna Lu A simple test can help predict how well babies will growAzeezur Rahman Khan/EyeEm/Getty Images We can now use urine or blood samples to predict how well an infant is likely to grow over its next six months. Margaret Kosek at the University of Virginia and her colleagues have developed a predictive model […]
The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic have been linked to a “wet” market in Wuhan, in the Hubei province of eastern China. Wet markets are common in Asia, Africa and elsewhere, selling fresh fruit and vegetables, poultry, fresh meat and live animals, including wildlife. Reports initially indicated that the coronavirus which causes COVID-19 may […]
Issued on: 08/04/2020 – 21:27Modified: 08/04/2020 – 21:27 France will extend its nationwide lockdown put in place to contain the spread of the new coronavirus for a second time, meaning it will run beyond April 15, the French presidential palace said on Wednesday. Advertising Read more The Elysée Palace said French President Emmanuel Macron would address the […]