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By SABRINA PENTY and REUTERS Published: 07:11 EST, 12 December 2024 | Updated: 07:57 EST, 12 December 2024 In Bolivia’s highland city of El Alto, the row of colourful corrugated metal roofs for a moment distracts from the terrifying sight below: a precipitous drop inches from the houses, known locally as ‘suicide homes’ for the high risk the inhabitants take.The thin row of flimsy structures hangs on the edge of a cliff formed of earth with a sheer drop hundreds of feet to the rocky escarpment below. Experts and city officials say the cliff is eroding, making the homes even more…
Scientists have discovered a ‘crazy’ new lifeform lurking inside our bodies.They found entirely new virus-like entities, named ‘obelisks,’ which are are circular bits of genetic material that contain one or two genes and self-organize into a rod-like shape.Obelisks appear in half of the world’s population, but were only discovered when researchers were searching for patterns that didn’t match any known organisms in genetic libraries.They colonize the bacteria inside the mouths and guts of humans, living inside their host for about one year, but scientists do not know how they spread.Obelisks have genomes of loops of RNA that resemble viroids, which are viruses that infect plants, leaving…
The Princess of Wales has opted not to wear the ornate sapphire engagement ring that once belonged to her late mother-in-law Princess Diana during recent public appearances.Kate Middleton, 42, has instead been wearing a thin golden ring, her wedding ring, topped with what some have speculated is a new ‘eternity band’.For the royal’s latest outing in Southport yesterday shimmering diamond rings were stacked on top as Kate was seen with Prince William.Although her new stack does not include Princess Diana’s engagement ring, she has been sure to keep a sweet nod to her mother-in-law by wearing an ‘eternity band’ that is set with sapphires…
The number of patients left needing further treatment because of botched NHS operations has soared more than 70 per cent in five years.Blunders include using dirty tools, cutting the wrong body part and leaving equipment in patients’ bodies at the end of a procedure.Patients needed extra care as a result of 23,997 such incidents last year, up 72.6 per cent from 13,903 in 2018/19, according to NHS England.The trauma can leave people in pain, delay recovery and place them at additional risk if procedures need to be repeated under general anaesthetic.Repeated surgery also takes up valuable staff and operating theatre…
A nonverbal autistic child said his first words after taking a cheap drug normally given to cancer patients.Mason Conner of Arizona was diagnosed with autism at two-and-a-half-years-old after his mother noticed he hadn’t started talking.After years of failed therapies and treatments, Mason’s parents met with a doctor researching experimental new therapies for autism.Dr Richard Frye, a pediatric neurologist at Rossignol Medical Center in Arizona, suggested the family try Leucovorin, a generic drug derived from folic acid. Three days after starting the $2.50 tablets, Mason said his first words at three years old. Folic acid – also called vitamin B9 – is required…
The conversation of baffled pilots tracking ‘super bright’ UFOs ‘moving real quick’ above their planes in Texas has been revealed.The short audio heard flight crews on American Airlines and Spirit planes speaking with air traffic control (ATC) on the night of November 30, as they were both flying into the Dallas-Fort Worth airport.The American Airlines pilot was the first to contact ATC, saying: ‘We are following these two lights that are up above us that are kind of jogging back-and-forth, left and right, for the past, like, half hour.’A Spirit Airlines pilot was then heard describing a similar experience, noting their flight…
Dressed head to toe in a white designer ensemble as she headed to the Commonwealth Day service alongside senior royals last month, Geri Horner looked almost unrecognisable from the wild 90s icon who rose to fame in The Spice Girls.The singer, now 52, was affectionately known as Ginger Spice in her hey day due to her unmissable bright red tresses – having landed a role in the band alongside Mel C, Emma Bunton, Victoria Beckham and Mel B following brief stints on TV and as a raunchy page 3 girl.Her time in the girl group constantly grabbed headlines – be it…
By JOANNE HART Updated: 16:51 EST, 14 December 2024 The English Channel is the busiest shipping route in the world. More than 500 ships pass through the Channel every day, from cruise liners and ferries to fishing boats, oil tankers and military vessels.With so much traffic, safety is paramount. Under international maritime rules, ships need to ensure they have a ‘transceiver’ on board, a black box which shows where they are, where they are heading and where other vessels are in relation to them.SRT Marine Systems, a small, Somerset-based firm, pioneered the technology some 15 years ago and it is…
Global government bond markets are vast and affect everyone who pays tax, saves into a pension or invests for the future.Unfortunately, it’s often hard to tell what’s going on when there’s a surge in bond buying, or a sell-off, because the jargon used by industry insiders can be impenetrable. We decode some of the key terms below, to make it easier to understand why the UK Government is suddenly paying more or less interest on its debts on our behalf, and what that will mean for the ordinary investors and big institutions lending it money. Government debt: Bonds issued by the…
Elon Musk weighed on a movement to pardon former police officer Derek Chauvin, saying the controversial action was ‘something to think about.’ Chauvin, the disgraced Minneapolis cop convicted of murdering George Floyd back in 2020, is currently serving concurrent state and federal sentences in a federal prison in Arizona.Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire has begun an effort to pardon Chauvin with an open letter to Donald Trump, calling his conviction ‘the defining achievement of the Woke movement in American politics.’The letter claims that Chauvin did not murder Floyd because he was ‘high on fentanyl’ and ‘had a significant pre-existing heart condition,’ complaining…