The story of the church of St Michael de Rupe begins – as all the best Dartmoor stories do – on a dark and stormy night. A sailor, stricken in a wild and furious sea, fell to the deck of his ship to pray for salvation. The almighty unveiled a mountain in the midst of…
Seven medical professionals who tended to the Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona during his final days are going on trial accused of criminal negligence over his death. Maradona died on 25 November 2020 aged 60 while recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot, after decades battling cocaine and alcohol addictions. Each defendant could face…
What the island nation of Cape Verde cherishes as its own distinctive kind of date palm is getting an ancestry reveal. The Cape Verde date palm (Phoenix atlantica), native to the island nation it’s nicknamed for, is one of three trees there that don’t grow in the wild anywhere else. The islands, scattered off western…
Oleksandr Rudynskyi, Franz Bohm, Hayder Rothschild Hoozeer, cast and crew accept the British short film award for Rock, Paper, Scissors Photograph: Stuart Wilson/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA
The Utah men’s basketball team still has four games remaining on its 2024-25 schedule, but leadership at the university has decided it’s time for a change. Utes head coach Craig Smith was fired Monday, one day after his team lost to UCF to fall to 15-12 on the season. The school confirmed the move in…
On 27 September last year, three climate activists were arrested for throwing soup over Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the National Gallery. The Just Stop Oil protest landed on the national front pages. But will the action help further the activists’ cause to end fossil fuels? Scientists are beginning to find answers to this…