Afternoon summary Keir Starmer has delivered an implicit rebuke to JD Vance at PMQs, by highlighting the sacrifice made by the 642 Britons who died fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan – a day after the US vice president appeared to disparage the value of the British military. (See 12.04pm.) Around a dozen Labour MPs have…
Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools out of animal bones around 1.5 million years ago, researchers say. Discoveries at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, a famous East African fossil location, represent the oldest known evidence of systematic bone tool production by hominids, according to archaeologist Ignacio de la Torre of CSIC-Spanish National Research Council in Madrid and…
In the summer of 2005, Alexis Ohanian, a tech entrepreneur, sent an email to his colleague Steve Huffman with an ominous subject line: “Meet the enemy.” The body of the email contained just one line — a link to Digg, a community-focused social message board where people shared and discussed news articles and links to…
Netanyahu tells new military chief Israel ‘determined’ to achieve victory Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told new military chief Lt Gen Eyal Zamir on Wednesday that Israel is “determined” to achieve victory in the multi-front war that began with Hamas’s October 2023 attack, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). “A very heavy responsibility rests on your shoulders,…
‘This is probably a bit unnecessary,” I thought to myself as my 1,100-lumen Petzl Reactive head torch lit up my dog like a comedian on Live at the Apollo. Over the past few months, our evening walks have been illuminated by various forehead-mounted gizmos, each one seemingly more powerful than the last. This particular model…
Chiefs star Travis Kelce on how he and Taylor Swift manifest their success Tayvoodoo in full force? Travis Kelce tells the media ahead of Super Bowl LIX how he and Taylor Swift manifest their success. Travis Kelce isn’t ready to hang up the cleats. Instead, he’s shaking off a Super Bowl 59 loss to continue…