– credit: Ross Long, supplied to ABC News String rays and manta rays don’t just have wings for show—they actually use them to fly out of the water and through the air. Described as “one of the most remarkable sights in the sea” by researchers studying ray breaching, it is as remarkable as it is…

England slid to a 15-run defeat in a gripping fourth T20 as India took an unassailable 3-1 lead in the series. The tourists made a rapid start in pursuit of 182 but faltered against spin again to fall from 62-0 to 67-3. Ben Duckett was caught after miscuing Ravi Bishnoi on 39, Phil Salt was…

– credit Anna Dziubinska on Unsplash A group of 200 UK businesses and charities have signed a pledge that company work weeks will be shortened to 4 days without a loss in pay Including marketing and advertisement; tech, it, and software; and charity groups as well, the companies employ more than 5,000 people. Organized by…

BBC Cardiff University has £506m in unrestricted reserves, which has increased by more than 50% in a year, according to figures seen by Newyddion S4C Cardiff University should use its reserves of more than £500m to ease financial pressures amid concerns of 400 job losses, a union has said. The institution has £506m in unrestricted…

Fire Chief Brian Fennessy – supplied to GNN by the Orange County Fire Authority A California fire chief single-handedly saved his brother’s house and that of his neighbor, armed only with a carton of milk and a few beers. Brian Fennessy said that was a first despite an almost 50-year career in firefighting. As soon…

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Kendyl Pool tries on new HearView caption glasses – SWNS This is the moment a deaf girl tried on a pair of high-tech, $1,500 glasses, which allow her to “see” conversations in real-time. Kendyl Pool was born profoundly deaf due to malformations in her inner ears and has used American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate…

AstraZeneca AstraZeneca has scrapped plans to invest £450m in expanding a vaccine manufacturing plant in Liverpool, blaming a reduction in government support. The pharmaceutical giant has announced its decision just two days after Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out Labour’s plan to go “further and faster” to boost economic growth. AstraZeneca said that after “protracted” talks,…

61 years ago today, the iconic black comedy film Dr. Strangelove, premiered in American cinemas. Directed by the genius Stanley Kubrick, the film was terrifying in a new way, because of its seemingly accurate depiction of America’s hair-trigger nuclear war defense plans, which were later revealed by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and others. In fact, Ellsberg recounts…

A senior aide to Prince Andrew privately admitted to an alleged Chinese spy that the duke’s BBC Newsnight interview had been “ill advised”, court documents show. Files disclosed to the BBC and other media outlets reveal how the prince’s aide Dominic Hampshire thanked Yang Tengbo for standing by the embattled duke in the months after…