Callie McKinney (courtesy photo) A toddler in Northern Ireland has survived a harrowing brush with death due to the rarest genetic disease in the UK. Overcoming months of intensive care and potentially significant brain damage, she is now hitting crucial developmental milestones that her mother described as nothing short of a miracle. Callie McKinney from…
Aston Villa are closing in on a loan deal for Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford before Monday’s transfer deadline. Sources have told BBC Sport talks are at an advanced stage, but there is work to be done to finalise the move. The prospect of working with Villa boss Unai Emery is understood to be an…
Entrepreneur Transforms Old Cement Bags into Solar-Charging Backpacks to Help Children Read at Night
Soma Bags – credit: UNDP Tanzania A local entrepreneur in Tanzania is clearing two hurdles in one leap by transforming old cement bags into backpacks that include a small solar panel to power a reading light. By clearing municipal waste and helping rural children study after dark, the bags won the backing of the United…
Megan Bonar BBC Scotland News Huszti family Henrietta, left, and Eliza Huszti went missing on 7 January The body of a second woman has been found near where two missing sisters were last seen in Aberdeen. Henrietta and Eliza Huszti – both 32 and from a set of triplets – were last seen near the…
193 years ago today, the father of impressionism, Edouard Manet, was born in Paris. He grew up rejecting the legal career imagined for him to become the painter that would lead the transition from the realist to the impressionist styles. His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l’herbe) and Olympia, both…
King Charles is set to feature in a new documentary for Amazon Prime Video. Filming has already started, with the project expected to highlight his environmental charity work in the UK and overseas. The King has long been a champion of nature and green causes, and explored the themes in his 2010 book, entitled Harmony:…
Wellesley Police Department via YouTube From Massachusetts comes a double rescue from under the ice of a frozen lake after a man and his dog found themselves trapped. Walking beside Lake Waban in Wellesley, Ed Berger was enjoying a nippy afternoon with his dogs Tommy and Oscar, when Tommy saw some birds alighting on the…
Manchester United have signed England Under-19s defender Ayden Heaven from Arsenal on a four-and-a-half-year contract. The Red Devils say the 18-year-old, who cost an undisclosed compensation fee, will immediately link up with the first-team squad. The teenager joined Arsenal as a 13-year-old in 2019 and made his senior debut as a substitute in an EFL…
61 years ago today, the British Invasion arrived in the US after The Beatles reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with I Want to Hold Your Hand, before eventually being replaced by their previous #1 single, She Loves You. The little 32-bar diddy in G-major was written by John and Paul, as the former described…
Jonny Humphries & Emma Stanley BBC News, Lancashire Getty Images/Christopher Furlong Crowds gathered outside St Paul’s Church, Blackpool, to attend the star’s funeral Family, friends and fans have turned out for the funeral of singer Linda Nolan. A memorial for the Dublin-born star was held at St Paul’s Church, Blackpool, where she also married her…
