Proto-fem (r) now offers synthetic biological companions and workers

Proto-fem (r) now offers synthetic biological companions and staff

No 10 furious at leak of paper predicting shortages after no-deal Brexit

Government figures seek to play down predictions of food, medicine and fuel shortages in leaked documentOperation Yellowhammer: the key pointsDowning Street has reacted with fury to the leak of an official document predicting that a no-deal Brexit would lead to food, medicine and petrol shortages, with No 10 sources blaming the disclosure on a hostile former […]

Iran warns US against oil tanker seizure as ship leaves Gibraltar

Vessel heads to Greece after UK rejects Washington’s request to detain it furtherIran has warned the US against any new attempt to seize an Iranian oil tanker in open seas after it left Gibraltar.The tanker – caught in a standoff between Tehran and the west – was sailing to Greece on Monday after leaving Gibraltar, shipping data showed, hours after the Briti […]

Trump confirms he is considering attempt to buy Greenland

President says bid would be ‘essentially a real estate deal’Danish semi-autonomous territory has said it is not for saleDonald Trump has confirmed he is considering an attempt to buy Greenland for strategic reasons, though he said the idea is “not No1 on the burner”. Related: 'Friends, you're going to love Greenland. I was there on 9/11' | Law […]

UK restaurant diners snub pasta for hummus and jerk chicken

Sector declines for sixth successive quarter but chains fare better than independents Restaurant diners are turning their noses up at Indian, Italian and Chinese establishments in favour of Middle Eastern, Caribbean and specialist vegetarian rivals, figures have revealed.The sector’s woes continue, with restaurant numbers falling by 3.4% in the year to the e […]

Iceland holds funeral for first glacier lost to climate change

Nation commemorates the once huge Okjokull glacier with plaque that warns action is needed to prevent climate changeIceland has marked its first-ever loss of a glacier to climate change as scientists warn that hundreds of other ice sheets on the subarctic island risk the same fate.As the world recently marked the warmest July ever on record, a bronze plaque […]

Tuvalu threatens to exit Australia's seasonal worker program after deputy PM's comments

PM Enele Sopoaga responds to Michael McCormack’s belief that Pacific islands will survive climate crisis because they ‘pick our fruit’The prime minister of Tuvalu is considering pulling his country out of Australia’s seasonal worker program, after comments by Australia’s deputy prime minister that Pacific islanders threatened by climate change would survive […]

Deposed Sudan president to face corruption charges in court

Omar al-Bashir faces long jail term if convicted as country’s military leaders pave way for civilian ruleOmar al-Bashir, the former president of Sudan, will appear in court on Monday for the first day of a high-profile corruption trial that could end in the deposed autocratic ruler being jailed for many years.Bashir was forced out of power in April when secu […]

Prince Andrew 'appalled' by Epstein sex abuse claims

Royal makes statement following release of video showing him in paedophile’s mansion in 2010The Duke of York has said he is “appalled” by recent sex abuse claims surrounding his former friend Jeffrey Epstein. Prince Andrew released a statement after new footage emerged showing him inside the convicted paedophile’s Manhattan mansion in 2010.The video, obtaine […]

Google loophole allows anti-abortion clinics to post deceptive ads

‘Crisis pregnancy centers’ seek to discourage women from getting abortions by ‘deceiving them about services they do or do not offer’A new Google policy that was meant to rein in deceptive advertising by “crisis pregnancy centers” has a loophole that is allowing the centers to continue to post misleading ads on the search engine.Crisis pregnancy centers ofte […]

Cold War sailor's 50-year-old message in a bottle found in Alaska

Green bottle was discovered on a remote shoreline by a man collecting firewoodA man discovered a 50-year-old letter in a bottle from the Russian Navy on the shores of western Alaska.Tyler Ivanoff found the handwritten Russian letter early this month while gathering firewood near Shishmaref about 600 miles (966km) northwest of Anchorage, KNOM-AM reported on T […]

No sex please, we're British (stick insects)

Phasmids hailing from New Zealand become asexual after arriving in the UK A New Zealand stick insect that migrated to the UK more than seven decades ago has given up having sex and become asexual, prompting biologists to wonder about the use of sex at all – especially in Britain.The Clitarchus hookeri is native to New Zealand but migrated to the UK some time […]

Dutch take cycling to a new level, with world's biggest bike park

In the Netherlands, where there are more bikes than people, serious money is being spent encouraging even more people to get on their bikesIn a nation with more bikes than people, finding a space to park can be a problem. The Dutch city of Utrecht is unveiling an answer at its railway station on Monday morning: the world’s largest multistorey parking area fo […]

The rain in Spain: how an ancient Arabic technique saves Alicante from floods

To protect itself from destructive flooding, the city has built a park designed to store and recycle rainwater In Alicante it never rains but it pours. The city in southeast Spain goes without rain for months on end, but when it comes it’s torrential, bringing destructive and sometimes fatal flooding.Or at least, it used to. In San Juan, a low-lying area of […]

Outcry as preschool sets up in former Nazi concentration camp

Kindergarten to join other businesses operating inside Staro Sajmište, in Belgrade, Serbia, as long-planned Holocaust memorial remains unbuiltThe greying, box-like building that houses the Savsko Obdanište kindergarten has had many uses over the years.At one point it was a restaurant; when you step through the front doors you find yourself surrounded by must […]

From the highest slide to the narrowest street: the record-breaking cities quiz

Which city is the most Instagrammed? Where’s the most expensive place to buy trainers? And where’s the smallest park?Which city has the tallest city hall?Hong KongTokyo DubaiShanghaiWhich city is home to the world's narrowest street?Toulouse, FranceStockholm, SwedenReutlingen, Germany Beijing, ChinaWhich city has the most bridges?Hamburg, GermanyVenice, […]

Here's what I learned from my privileged, western failure to go plastic-free for a month | Van Badham

I tried to re-enact my nanna’s depression-mindset, zero-waste home, but no victory over plastic went unpunishedMy “plastic-free” July began with an idea to retain every piece of plastic waste I consumed, and port it around over the month in a bag with me wherever I went.Had I stuck to this plan – despite deliberate and even desperate efforts to excise plasti […]

Search to resume for missing boy, six, swept away in Kent river

Police say it is unlikely Lucas Dobson will be found alive after he fell into water on fishing tripThe search for a six-year-old boy who was swept away after falling into a river will resume but police have said it is unlikely he will be found alive.Lucas Dobson slipped into the River Stour in Sandwich, Kent, on Saturday afternoon, while on a fishing trip wi […]

'Men fear us': Kampala's market women unite against harassment

Tired of suffering physical and verbal abuse at one of the Ugandan capital’s largest markets, female vendors are holding perpetrators to accountAll photography by Alice McCoolSome men are in the habit of touching women, says Nora Baguma, a vendor at Nakawa market, in Uganda’s capital Kampala. “We call them bayaye,” she says, sitting at her banana stall.“We g […]

John Delaney draws 11 people to 2020 event – does he truly think he can win?

The former congressman has put $24m of his own cash into an increasingly quixotic presidential run – and he’s ploughing on despite a near total lack of supportJohn Delaney has poured a staggering $24m of his own money into running for president. He has been campaigning for the White House for more than two years, and in that time has held more than 200 event […]

Brazil to open long-distance hiking trail in Atlantic forest – in pictures

Inspired by long-distance tracks such as Canada’s 15,000-mile Great Trail, a proposed 4,970-mile trans-Brazil hiking trail would provide a continuous coastal corridor from its southern border with Uruguay to its northern frontier with French Guiana Continue reading...

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Silicon Valley scientists create artificial human eggs for home-genesis and now offer “Proto-beings” for sale

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