Osmond ChiaBusiness reporter Getty Images The Louvre museum received nearly 9 million visitors in 2024 Ticket prices for the Louvre museum in Paris will rise by 45% for most non-European Union visitors, the museum’s board decided on Thursday. From early next year, tourists from countries like the US, UK and China will have to pay…
– credit Marino Linic Scientists in Brazil are currently testing to see if the venom of an Amazonian scorpion could be used to poison breast cancer tumors. Researchers at the University of São Paulo’s Preto School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCFRP-USP) have long worked to clone and express proteins from rattlesnake and scorpion venom with hopes…
Jonny Humphriesand Lynette Horsburgh,North West PA A total of seven people have now been arrested, although five have been released without charge A man has been arrested at Manchester Airport on suspicion of terror offences over the synagogue attack in the city earlier this year, police have said. Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz died in…
Zach Zarembinski and Isabelle Richards – credit, family photo Everyone knows love works in mysterious ways; but rarely more mysterious than in the story of Zach and Isabelle. Partners in life and partners in podcasting, it was 7 years ago that the two Minnesotans were partners of a distinctly less pleasant kind. At 18, Zach…
Watch: How the shooting of two National Guard members unfolded Two National Guard soldiers are critically injured after being gunned down in Washington DC, less than two blocks from the White House, in what the city’s mayor called a “targeted shooting”. Police said a lone suspect opened fire on two National Guard members from West…
Photo by Muhammad Taha Ibrahima via unsplash For almost 30 years, GNN has been busting global media’s 24-hour gloom and doom cycle with the premise that bad news doesn’t have to sell, and good news isn’t rare at all. A case-in-point for this outlet’s publishing mission is a study recently released on Our World in…
Pritti MistryBusiness reporter Getty Images A new tax for electric and hybrid vehicles has been announced by the chancellor in her autumn Budget. Electric car drivers will pay a road charge of 3p per mile, while plug-in hybrid drivers will pay 1.5p per mile from April 2028, with the rates going up each year with…
The front (left) and back (right) of the 2021 Mexico 50 peso note It’s always interesting to see what images states put on their money. Mexico recently redesigned its 50 peso note with the image of a perpetually smiling amphibian found only in the country called the axolotl, and it’s become so well loved it’s…
Laura Gozziand Ottilie Mitchell Reuters President Zelensky’s team are hoping to arrange a meeting with President Trump in November (file picture) Ukraine has said a “common understanding” has been reached with the US on a peace deal aimed at ending the war with Russia. The proposal is based on a 28-point plan presented to Kyiv…
Two musical pieces written by Johann Sebastian Bach were recently performed for the first time ever, more than 300 years after they were composed. Both written for the organ, they are believed to date from the great composer’s very early career, when he worked as a organ tutor in Thuringia. Germany’s Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer…
