France: Bourgeois, Arbey, Menager (co-capt), Amedee, Llorens, Arbez, Sansus; Brosseau, Bigot, Bernadou, M Feleu (co-capt), Fall, Escudero, Okemba, T Feleu Replacements: Riffonneau, Mwayembe, Joyeux, Zago, Berthoumieu, L Champon, A Champon, Queyroi Scotland: Rollie, Lloyd, Orr, Thomson, McGhie, Nelson, Brebner-Holden; Young, Skeldon, Clarke, Cunningham, Bonar, Malcolm (capt), McLachlan, Konkel Replacements: Martin, Bartlett, Poolman, Ferrie, Boyd, Stewart,…
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Justin Rowlatt BBC News Climate Editor JSO Handout The climate action group Just Stop Oil has announced it is to disband at the end of April. Its activists have been derided as attention-seeking zealots and vandals and it is loathed by many for its disruptive direct action tactics. It says it has won because its…
Molten iron pours from Boston Steel’s electrical reactor – credit, Boston Steel, screengrab An MIT-startup has found a way to commercialize steel production by the ton using electricity rather than a CO2-emitting blast furnace, promising the beginning of decarbonization in one of humanity’s most carbon-intensive industries. Called Boston Steel, their industrial-scale production facility can make…
Alex Pope BBC News, Bedfordshire Contributed The last van rolled off the production line at about 12:40 GMT on Friday Vehicle production at Vauxhall’s Luton plant has come to an end after 120 years of the company being based in the town. Parent company Stellantis announced the van plant’s closure in November as it planned…
Up for auction today at a swanky Parisian auction house will be a slightly lazy paint sketch of some lions. But these relaxed beasts are more than they appear. As it turns out, the work entitled Study of Reclining Lions was a lost creation from one of Paris’ greatest ever modern painters: Eugène Delacroix. The man…
A former police officer has been spared a jail sentence over his fatal decision to Taser a 95-year-old woman with dementia symptoms at an Australia aged care home. Kristian White said he had used the weapon to prevent a “violent confrontation” after finding Clare Nowland disoriented and holding a small kitchen knife in May 2023.…
Mary’s release into the Busang Ecosystem – credit the Orangutan Project In a heartwarming milestone for great ape conservation, Mary, a rescued orphaned orangutan, has been released into the jungles of Borneo following rehabilitation. After spending four years at the Bornean Orangutan Rescue Alliance (BORA) Rescue and Rehabilitation Center learning how to survive independently in…
Ben Godfrey BBC Midlands Today West Midlands Police Brian Pitts ran the operation with the help of his former partner, Katie Harlow, from a villa in Thailand A gang leader who co-ordinated from Thailand a £4m fake Xanax drug-making operation in West Midlands sheds and garages has been jailed for eight years. Up to 11…
A hospital in Bamyan, Ambar Province – credit Canada in Afghanistan, CC 2.0. After a few years of Herculean efforts, UNICEF has reached a point where it has prevented two-thirds of Afghanistan’s healthcare sector from collapsing. Working mostly in rural areas, the operation has been vast, employing 28,000 full-time carers and physicians and 32,000 volunteers…
