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Boris Johnson wants Ukraine to be given long-range missiles
16 December 2022

Boris Johnson calls for UK to provide Ukraine with long-range missiles
Boris Johnson has urged the UK government to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles to end the war with Russia. The former Prime Minister has called for greater Western assistance for the ...

New Zealand has banned cigarettes for future generations
16 December 2022

New Zealand bans cigarettes for future generations
New Zealand has passed legislation to ban cigarettes for future generations. The world-first law was passed by the country's parliament on Tuesday (13.12.22) and means that anybody born after 2008 will ...

Police mistook a mannequin for a female in distress
16 December 2022

Police mistake art gallery mannequin for 'unconscious' woman
Police forced their way into a London art gallery to help an 'unconscious' woman - only to discover that it was a mannequin. Officers from the Metropolitan Police were called out ...

Donald Trump is losing support amongst conservative voters
16 December 2022

Donald Trump is being deserted by conservative supporters
Donald Trump is losing support amongst his conservative base. A new poll has revealed that conservative voters in the United States would prefer to see Florida governor Ron DeSantis as the ...

Porn addiction has trebled in Britain
16 December 2022

Porn addiction has trebled in Britain since pandemic started
Porn addiction in the UK has trebled since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. New figures reveal that more than 36,000 people across Britain turned to the rehab provider UK Addiction ...

The world's oldest known jeans have sold at auction
16 December 2022

World's oldest known jeans sell for $114,000 at auction
The world's oldest known jeans have sold for $114,000. The work pants were discovered in a sunken trunk in a shipwreck in 1857 near the coast of North Carolina. The jeans feature ...

People in Ukraine could die of cold this winter
16 December 2022

People in Ukraine could die of hypothermia
People in Ukraine are at risk of dying of cold this winter. Russian attacks against the nation's power supplies have been constant in recent months and Donetsk governor Pavlo Kyrylenko is ...

Joe Biden has apologised for slavery
16 December 2022

Joe Biden apologises for 'unimaginable cruelty' of slavery
Joe Biden has apologised for the "unimaginable cruelty" of slavery. The US president referred to the issue as the nation's "original sin" during a gathering of African leaders at a White ...

Early humans started to walk upright in trees
16 December 2022

Early humans walked upright in trees
Early humans started to walk upright in the trees. It had been believed that the modern human race evolved to walk upright after our ancestors were forced to come down from ...

Emmanuel Macron wants Putin investigated for war crimes
6 December 2022

Emmanuel Macron: Putin should be investigated for war crimes
Emmanuel Macron thinks that Vladimir Putin should be investigated for war crimes. The French President has urged the international community to launch legal initiatives against the tyrant in light of recent ...

Mars was covered in a deep ocean that might have held life
6 December 2022

Mars was covered in an ocean that could have held life
Mars was once covered in a deep ocean that might have harboured forms of life. Researchers are convinced that the Red Planet had enough water on it 4.5 billion years ago ...

Ben Fogle is backing the bat box offices
6 December 2022

Bat cinema designed to protect dwindling British population
NOW and The Bat Conservation Trust have joined forces to protect the UK's dwindling bat population. To coincide with the launch of the film 'The Batman' on the streaming service, a ...

Donald Trump has faced a backlash for calling for the 'termination' of the US constitution
5 December 2022

Donald Trump blasted for calling for 'termination' of US constitution
Donald Trump has been condemned after calling for the "termination" of the US constitution. The former US President made the incendiary comments in a post to his Truth Social account on ...

Fighting in Ukraine will slow down over the winter months
5 December 2022

Fighting in Ukraine to slow down over the winter
Fighting in Ukraine has been slowing down, US intelligence agencies believe. Director of intelligence Avril Haines thinks that the trend is likely to continue during the winter months as both sides ...

Police in San Francisco can use deadly robots
5 December 2022

Police in San Francisco granted power to use killer robots
Police in San Francisco will be able to use killer robots. The city's ruling Board of Supervisors has voted to let SFPD officers use the droids as lethal options in the ...

Computers can spot cancer by listening to farts
5 December 2022

Computers trained to spot cancer by listening to farts
Computers can detect cancer by listening to farts. An artificial intelligence prototype is able to recognise subtle changes after hearing trumps from healthy and unhealthy people. The developers believe that their system, ...

Joe Biden is willing to talk to Vladimir Putin
2 December 2022

Joe Biden will talk to Putin if he withdraws from Ukraine
Joe Biden is prepared to sit down with Vladimir Putin if the Russian tyrant agrees to pull out of Ukraine. The US President revealed that he would be willing to negotiate ...

A man is terrified of Santa figures
2 December 2022

Man terrified of Father Christmas figures
A man has a phobia of dancing Father Christmas figures. Gary Hollidge suffers from cold sweats and shortness of breath whenever he sees a dancing Santa Claus. The former pub landlord says ...

Teenage brains aged faster during the Covid pandemic
2 December 2022

Teenage brains aged faster during pandemic
Teenagers' brains aged faster than normal during the coronavirus pandemic. The brain of an adolescent changes as the person enters adulthood but new evidence shows that this happened quicker than normal ...

The EU has threatened to ban Elon Musk's Twitter
1 December 2022

EU threatens to ban Twitter unless Elon Musk complies with moderation rules
The European Union has threatened to ban Twitter unless Elon Musk follows its strict content moderation rules. EU industry chief Thierry Breton made the threat to the world's richest man during ...

Support for the Ukraine war has fallen in Russia
1 December 2022

Support for Ukraine war falls dramatically in Russia
Support for the Ukraine war has plummeted in Russia. A leaked Kremlin poll shows that just one in four Russian people are in favour of keeping troops in Ukraine in a ...

Climate change is altering squirrels' sperm
1 December 2022

Climate change alters the sperm of squirrels
Climate change is altering squirrels' sperm. New research has found that animals living in the Canadian Prairies that emerged from hibernation in unusually long winters were discovered to "shoot blanks". The discovery ...

Bats have more vocal range than Mariah Carey
1 December 2022

Bats have a better vocal range than Mariah Carey
Bats have a better vocal range than Mariah Carey. A new study claims that the creatures are the "death metal singers" of the animal kingdom and have a superior vocal range ...

Elon Musk has been accused of running Twitter 'like a dictator'
30 November 2022

Elon Musk criticised for running Twitter 'like a dictator'
Elon Musk has been accused of running Twitter "like a dictator". The platform's former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth, who resigned earlier this month, says that the site has ...