Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “ready and willing” to put UK troops on the ground in Ukraine to help guarantee its security as part of a peace deal. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the UK prime minister said securing a lasting peace in Ukraine “is essential if we are to deter Putin from…

Credit: Oregon State University / SWNS Adults with high levels of playfulness showed strong resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to less playful individuals, new research shows. The Oregon State University study is important because playfulness is a vital but under-appreciated resource for building resilience and maintaining well-being during difficult periods such as the pandemic—and…

Gareth Fuller/PA Media The shooting took place outside the Three Horseshoes pub on Friday evening Police are investigating whether a suspect wanted after the fatal shooting of a woman outside a pub on Valentine’s Day may have entered the River Thames. The woman, who was in her 40s, died at the scene of the attack,…

Wisdom – USFWS / SWNS The world’s oldest known bird has returned to her home island to hatch yet another chick, at nearly 74 years old. Named Wisdom, the Laysan albatross has been spotted this month caring for her youngster on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific Ocean. Like others of her species,…

EPA Germany has been mourning the attack which took place on Thursday A mother, 37, and her two-year-old daughter have died, two days after a car was driven into a crowd of people in the Germany city of Munich, police have said. At least 37 people were injured in the attack, a number of them…

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This year’s Munich Security Conference (MSC) was supposed to be primarily about two things: how to end the war in Ukraine without giving in to Russia, and how Europe needed to boost its spending on defence. But the most senior American present, US Vice President JD Vance, used his time at the podium to talk…

A photograph and interpretive line drawing show the Baminornis zhenghensis fossil – credit: Min Wang According to a truly field-altering fossilized bird found in China, birds already existed in the Late Jurassic period, approximately 160 million years ago. The new discovery suggests that rather than a linear evolutionary path from dinosaur to bird, these two…

Sam Francis Political reporter EPA Sir Keir Starmer has reaffirmed the UK will continue to back Ukraine’s “irreversible path” to joining Nato despite leading figures in President Trump’s administration appearing to rule out membership. The prime minister told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky he stood by a pledge made alongside ex-president Joe Biden at last year’s…

File photo by Ana Essentiels The restaurant and fashion industries are often and rightly critiqued for the mountains of landfill waste they produce, but the same can—and really should—be said about cosmetics and hygiene products. In response, an Ivorian immigrant to Arizona has created a fully compostable, plant-based refillable skincare dispenser made of sugarcane and…