Indonesia is the hardest major country to place on a map, according to a study. In a survey, participants from around the world were asked to pinpoint countries on an interactive map and a ranking of the top 20 countries people struggled to find was then drawn up. Indonesia came top of the ranking with … Read more
Get out of there – and make it snappy! Couple wake up to find 10ft crocodile lurking at the bottom of their swimming pool in South Africa Jacob and Angel Breytenbach, from South Africa, found the crocodile in pool They called a team of animal specialists to help remove the reptile from garden Animal checked by … Read more
‘There’s no way of dating right now’: Strictly’s Karen Hauer rules out the idea of using an app to find love as she insists she’s happily single after split from David Webb By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 11:13 GMT, 2 February 2021 | Updated: 11:13 GMT, 2 February 2021 Karen Hauer has ruled out … Read more
High school students deemed ‘youngest astronomers ever’ discover four exoplanets 200-light-years away using the space-based TESS Kartik Pinglé, 16, and Jasmine Wright, 18, discovered four new exoplanets The pair used the TESS satellite to observe a sun-like star 200-light-years away Three of the planets are sub-Neptunes and the other is a super-Earth By Stacy Liberatore … Read more
High school students deemed ‘youngest astronomers ever’ discover four exoplanets 200-light-years away using the space-based TESS Kartik Pinglé, 16, and Jasmine Wright, 18, discovered four new exoplanets The pair used the TESS satellite to observe a sun-like star 200-light-years away Three of the planets are sub-Neptunes and the other is a super-Earth By Stacy Liberatore … Read more
Armed police pinned down a suspect and found two grenades in his bag as a series of raids uncover more bombs and three guns. Plain-clothes officers were pictured pointing their weapons at a cyclist after he was forced off his mountain bike and pushed face down into the road. Inside his rucksack they found two … Read more
Armed police pinned down a suspect and found two grenades in his bag as a series of raids uncover more bombs and three guns. Plain-clothes officers were pictured pointing their weapons at a cyclist after he was forced off his mountain bike and pushed face down into the road. Inside his rucksack they found two … Read more
A lawyer has claimed the FBI secretly discovered $400 million in stolen Civil War gold bars buried in a Pennsylvania forest three years ago. Harrisburg attorney William Cluck said Thursday he’d learned the name of the federal judge who ordered all records of the March 2018 excavation to be sealed. ‘I got what I wanted,’ … Read more
A lawyer has claimed the FBI secretly discovered $400 million in stolen Civil War gold bars buried in a Pennsylvania forest. Harrisburg attorney William Cluck said Thursday he’d learned the name of the federal judge who ordered all records of the March 2018 excavation to be sealed. ‘I got what I wanted,’ Cluck told PennLive … Read more
Scraps of dyed thread unearthed in Israel that date back 3,000 years match the descriptions of the purple garments worn by royalty like King Solomon in the Bible. Researchers from Israel found remnants of woven fabric, a tassel and fibres of wool dyed in so-called ‘royal purple’ from a dig site in the Timna Valley. … Read more