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Conservationists have declared the only ‘responsible thing’ to do with Pablo Escobar’s rampaging hippos is to totally ‘eradicate’ the beasts
11 July 2024

Conservationists declare it’s finally time to totally ‘eradicate’ Pablo Escobar’s rampaging hippos
Conservationists have declared the only “responsible thing” to do with Pablo Escobar’s rampaging hippos is to totally “eradicate” the beasts. Authorities in Colombia are battling to find a solution of how ...

Young people are struggling to find their soulmates due to 'social media confusion'
11 July 2024

Young people struggle to find love due to ‘social media confusion’
Young people are struggling to find their soulmates due to “social media confusion”. According to new research, young adults are less likely to feel romantically satisfied due to social media ...

Children are likely to cause cats to claw up furniture
11 July 2024

Cats scratching furniture caused by children
Children are likely to cause cats to claw up furniture. Researchers from Ankara University, Turkey, asked 1,200 cat owners in France what factors can influence undesired scratching behaviours in their furry ...

Men could be more likely to grow a beard when they’re ready to settle down
11 July 2024

Bearded men more likely to want long-term partner
Bearded men are more likely to be ready to settle down than those with less facial hair. Researchers from the University of Katowice, Poland, asked 400 men between the age of ...

Burger and Lobster's new premium bargain bucket
11 July 2024

'Claw-lickingly good': Burger and Lobster launch premium bargain bucket
Burger and Lobster have launched a new "premium" bargain bucket at their restaurants. All nine branches of the popular London eatery will be offering a "claw-lickingly good" sharing feast for six ...

Feel the Burn hot sauce mimics the symptoms of UTI
11 July 2024

Hot sauce designed to replicate UTI symptoms
A new hot sauce has developed to mimic the symptoms of UTIs. The condiment, Feel the Burn, has been created by Newfoundland Diagnostics and scientific sauce creator Lazy Scientist in order ...

Scientists have created a robot with a small human brain
11 July 2024

Scientists invent Frankenstein robot with a human brain
Scientists have created a 'Frankenstein' robot that has a tiny human brain. The cyborg has been built using lab-grown stem cells called organoids that have been paired with a computer chip ...

Music has become less complex over the past 70 years
11 July 2024

Song melodies have become simpler over the past 70 years
Song melodies have become more basic over the past 70 years. Experts at Queen Mary University of London have analysed the melodies of tracks that reached the top five in the ...

Kenza Layli is the world's first Miss AI winner
11 July 2024

Moroccan influencer Kenza Layli becomes world's first AI beauty queen
Moroccan influencer Kenza Layli has won the first-ever Miss AI competition. The 100 per cent AI-generated influencer saw off competition from France's Lalina Valina and Portugal's Olivia C to claim a ...

The exoplanet HD 189733 b stinks of rotten eggs (c) Johns Hopkins University
11 July 2024

Scientists discover that exoplanet smells of rotten eggs
A distant planet stinks of rotten eggs. Scientists have been studying the atmosphere of the exoplanet HD 189733 b, a gas giant that is a similar size to Jupiter, using data ...

Dark chocolate reduces the risk of gum disease
11 July 2024

Eating dark chocolate slashes gum disease risk
Eating dark chocolate halves the risk of gum disease. Researchers are convinced that antioxidants from the cocoa beans could be behind the reduction in the disease risk. Cheese (54 per cent), rice ...

Air pollution reduces the odds of a live birth after IVF
11 July 2024

Air pollution reduces prospect of live birth after IVF
Air pollution significantly reduces the chance of a live birth after IVF treatment. Exposure to pollution has previously been linked to increased miscarriage rates and preterm births and the latest concerning ...

Drinking tea has a lot of health benefits
11 July 2024

Drinking tea everyday protects your heart
Drinking tea for decades protects the heart. Research has found that of the six most popular drinks, tea came out on top for having the most health benefits for both sexes. A ...

Fruit can lessen the impact of a hangover
11 July 2024

Snacking on fruit following a night out reduces hangover effects
Eating fruit after a night out can reduce the effects of a hangover. Nutritionist and podcaster Dr. Rhonda Patrick has pinpointed studies that show how fructose - the sugar that naturally ...

The Cosmic Joker claims that extraterrestrials are keeping humans confused
11 July 2024

New UFO film alleges that aliens are tricking humanity
A new UFO film suggests that alien tricksters are deliberately confusing humanity to prevent the truth from being revealed about extraterrestrials. 'The Cosmic Joker' is inspired by the late author and ...

The eyeball planet LHS 1140 b could hold alien life (c) Universite de Montreal
11 July 2024

Eyeball planet could hold the key to alien life
A planet resembling an eyeball could provide new hope in the hunt for alien life. The distant world is known as LHS 1140 b and could be covered in either icy ...

A man tried to enter China with 100 snakes smuggled in his trousers
11 July 2024

Man gets caught smuggling snakes into China down his trousers
A man has been caught trying to smuggle over 100 live snakes into mainland China by stuffing them down his trousers. Officers stopped the unnamed traveller as he attempted to cross ...

Cait Fitton hid in a car boot to keep Coronation Street's Lauren Bolton return top secret
11 July 2024

Cait Fitton hid in a car boot to keep Coronation Street's Lauren Bolton return top secret
Cait Fitton hid in Calum Lill's car boot to keep the whereabouts of her ‘Coronation Street’ character Lauren Bolton top secret. The 22-year-old actress went to great lengths to keep the ...

Britain’s Got Talent is to film auditions in Blackpool
11 July 2024

Britain’s Got Talent follows in Strictly Come Dancing's Blackpool footsteps
‘Britain’s Got Talent’ is to follow in Strictly Come Dancing’s footsteps - by heading to Blackpool. The Saturday night ITV1 talent competition is expected to "take on the dominance" of the ...

Will Best proposed to his long-term girlfriend Tobi Rose
11 July 2024

Will Best 'engaged to his long-term girlfriend Tobi Rose'
Will Best has secretly got engaged to his long-term girlfriend Tobi Rose. The ‘Big Brother’ host, 39, popped the question to the stylist - who he has been with ...

Ruth Langsford is expected to address her split from Eamonn Holmes when she returns to Loose Women later this month
11 July 2024

Ruth Langsford 'to address Eamonn Holmes split in Loose Women return'
Ruth Langsford is expected to address her split from Eamonn Holmes when she returns to 'Loose Women' later this month. The former 'This Morning' co-hosts announced in May they had gone ...

Janette Manrara 'proud' of husband Aljaz Skorjanec as he re-joins Strictly
11 July 2024

'I'm so happy!' Janette Manrara 'proud' of husband Aljaz Skorjanec as he re-joins Strictly
Janette Manrara is "so proud" of her husband Aljaz Skorjanec, after he re-joined 'Strictly Come Dancing'. The 'Strictly - It Takes Two' presenter feels "so happy" that her significant other ...

Monty Don was presented with a cake to mark his 69th birthday at the Kew The Music festival
11 July 2024

Monty Don surprised with birthday cake at Kew The Music
Monty Don celebrated his 69th birthday in style as he was presented with a surprise cake on stage at the Kew The Music festival. The beloved gardener, who is a household ...

Ryan Libbey and Louise Thompson
11 July 2024

Louise Thompson planning 2025 wedding
Louise Thompson is hoping to get married to fiancé Ryan Libbey at the end of 2025. The couple got engaged in 2018 and welcomed their first child in 2021, son Leo, ...