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12-year-old from Edinburgh walks over 2700 miles for hospice that cared for granny
The Herald· 17 hours agoThe twelve-year-old has raised more than £1400 for Marie Curie, after the hospice cared for his granny during the last two weeks of her life. Starting the challenge in March, his aim was to ...
Life at 115F: a sweltering summer pushes Las Vegas to the brink
The Guardian· 18 hours agoHot air wafted through the heavy, gold-lined doors of a Las Vegas casino as they opened, offering a reminder of a disaster quietly unfolding outside. It’s hard to tell from inside the cool, ...
The Decameron: The 'eye-popping' medieval tales that pushed sexual boundaries
BBC News· 18 hours agoWritten by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 1350s, this collection of stories deals with sexuality in a way...
Turkey passing new law after attacks on children and elderly
Wales Online via Yahoo News UK· 18 hours agoBut a failure to implement those regulations has caused the dog population to explode, animal rights...
It's like Vegas' Sphere — kinda. 7 things to know about L.A.'s otherworldly new venue
LA Times via Yahoo News UK· 19 hours agoThe idea is to complement live performances by giving us views that would be largely impossible to...
‘It Wasn’t a Bit’: The Real Story Behind the Blues Brothers
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News UK· 20 hours agoHeading into the 50th season of Saturday Night Live, fans of the show and its original cast may feel...
Pádraic Joyce: Galway would probably have been seen as having a soft centre over the years
Irish Examiner· 22 hours agoIn the aftermath of their Donegal victory, Joyce revealed that he had text the Armagh boss the night...
Fossils show Jurassic mammals lived longer and grew more slowly than today
Irish Examiner· 22 hours agoA team analysed the fossils of an adult and a juvenile Krusatodon kirtlingtonensis, a mouse-sized...
Pet owner watched 'dangerous dog' kill pooch on Greenock street, trial hears
Greenock Telegraph· 23 hours agoThe large Tamaskan dog 'rag-dolled' the much smaller animal at Kinloch Terrace, two months after pouncing on a West Highland Terrier and inflicting puncture wounds, the sheriff ...
Soundscapes of the natural world can tell us so much
The Irish Times· 24 hours agoBirdsong has long been admired and hearing different species can bring us back to certain times or places. The beautiful documentary Birdsong, featuring...