The Taliban has told the BBC it will endeavour to release two British nationals who have been arrested and held in Afghanistan “as soon as possible”. Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were arrested on 1 February while returning to their home in the country’s Bamiyan province. An American national and an Afghan…

A jar of tuna next to the researchers’ solution of cysteine – credit: Chalmers University of Technology/Hanna Magnusson Reprinted from permission from World at Large A breakthrough in packaged tuna preparation has been found to reduce mercury content in the fish by 35%. Consumption of tuna has long been limited, especially by pregnant women and…

Volodymyr Zelensky’s offer to step down as president of Ukraine features heavily in Monday’s papers. Source link

Bus stop in Fowey, England, ‘All you need is Fowey’ design from Jan. 2022 – via SWNS A bus stop in Fowey, England, has been getting artistic makeovers from creative locals for two decades. Dubbed the Pretty Bus Stop on Lankelly Lane in Cornwall, it was given its first makeover by Jane Tinsley after it…

Jonny Manning BBC News, North East and Cumbria Family handout Jenny Hall’s body has been found in Teesdale after she went missing five days ago A body has been found in a forest search for a runner who went missing five days ago, police said. Jenny Hall, 23, was last seen leaving her home at…

139 years ago today, an American inventor used electrolysis to extract aluminum from aluminum oxide, a process that eventually resulted in reducing the price of aluminum by a factor of 200, making it affordable for many practical uses from soda cans to the Wright Flyer. As small grains amid clay, it was thought by medieval…

A British archaeologist believes his team may have found a second tomb in Egypt belonging to King Thutmose II. The potential find comes just days after Dr Piers Litherland announced the discovery of the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun’s was revealed over a century ago. Dr Litherland told the Observer he suspects this…

Joe Thompson with Iguanodon footprint – SWNS A huge dinosaur footprint dating back 127 million years has been found on a UK beach after a rainstorm. A 23-year-old fossil guide spotted the three-toed print on the Isle of Wight. Joe Thompson says the one-meter long footprint revealed itself after storms stripped the beach of pebbles.…

Jasperimage The ambulance hit the pedestrian in the early hours of Saturday A pedestrian has died after being hit by an ambulance which was responding to an emergency call in Moray. The man was hit by the vehicle on the A96 at Barmuckity, near Elgin, at about 03:30 on Saturday. The 40-year-old was taken to…

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