Girma Legesse smiles with his coffee – credit Farm Africa Coffee for Conservation, supplied The existence and consumption of coffee has many advantages in human society, but perhaps the lesser reported advantage is what it can offer the environment. There is arguably no other monocrop so capable of thriving in an intact, natural ecosystem, and…

Indy Almroth-Wright BBC News, South Facebook Martyn Sadler and Jennie Logan died in the fire at the Bicester Motion business park Tributes have been pouring in after the deaths of two firefighters and a 57-year-old man in a fire at an Oxfordshire business park. Firefighters Jennie Logan, 30, and Martyn Sadler, 38, died in the…

125 years ago today, L. Frank Baum’s first children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in the US. The first edition was printed and bound by Baum himself for presentation to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster. The first 10,000 copies sold out fast, and by 1938 over a million were sold. Telling the…

Facebook Martyn Sadler and Jennie Logan died in the fire at the Bicester Motion business park The firefighters who died in a blaze at Bicester Motion have been named as Jennie Logan and Martyn Sadler, while the member of the public who died is David Chester. Police said both firefighters worked at Oxfordshire Fire and…

A family-run dairy business has reached a significant milestone this week: Müller UK & Ireland donated the equivalent of four million meals through its partnership with FareShare, an ongoing effort to support low-income people across the UK by transforming surplus food into vital meals. FareShare is the UK’s largest food redistribution charity, handing out good-to-eat…

Getty Images The King is now estimated to be worth £270m more than his late mother the Queen The number of UK billionaires has fallen while King Charles’ personal wealth has jumped to equal former prime minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty, according to the latest Sunday Times Rich List. The annual list…

307 years ago today, Maria Agnesei was born in Milan. She is the first woman in the Western World ever to be appointed as a professor of mathematics at a university. She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. Her name is remembered most often today through her mathematical…

Cristiano Ronaldo has topped the Forbes list of highest-paid athletes for the third consecutive year, while NBA star Stephen Curry has moved up to second. The business magazine, external says Ronaldo, who has topped the list fives times during his career, has increased his estimated total earnings by $15m to $275m (approx £206m). That figure…

Charity Clark rescues shark – Courtesy of video by Cassie Bailey (via SWNS) Without hesitation, a woman rescued a shark tangled up in fishing rope, using her bare hands. Charity Clark was paddle-boarding with her friends near Big Pine Key off the coast of Florida, on March 26, when they noticed a crab trap buoy behaving…

Joe Inwood BBC World correspondent EPA The Bayesian, pictured sailing near Palermo, in a photo released by manufactures Perini Navi The owner and crew of a luxury superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily, killing tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and six others, were unaware wind speeds of over 73mph could tip it over, according…