In a quiet street on the outskirts of Ostrava in Communist Czechoslovakia, a British secret agent carefully unearths a package containing highly classified documents. Working with practised ease, he replaces it with cash, which he puts in a food tin, along with instructions for his contact, and buries it in the pre-arranged spot. It is … Read more
A personal trainer who says he contracted cold sores after kissing a woman on a date is now suing her for over £130,000 in compensation for her ‘negligence’. Martin Ashley Conway, 45, says he has been ‘traumatised’ and his life and work seriously affected after catching the herpes simplex cold sore virus through snogging a … Read more
Can a cold give you coronavirus immunity? Some forms of common respiratory illness might help build protection from Covid-19… and it could last up to 17 YEARS, scientists say The latest study was by scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore Found some forms of the common cold might help give protection from Covid-19 Immunity … Read more
Robert Bathurst has hit out at actors who ‘mumble’ while filming and has admitted it has become ‘taboo’ for directors who pull them up on it. The Cold Feet star, 63, has weighed in on the mumbling row during his latest column in the The Oldie magazine and revealed his own experience. Robert told of how he … Read more
Chinese foreign minister warns Washington that it’s pushing relations to ‘the brink of a new Cold War’ China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday rejected Washington’s ‘lies’ over the coronavirus ‘It has come to our attention that some political forces in the US are taking China-US relations hostage,’ Wang told reporters during a press conference … Read more
China has said that relations with the United States were ‘on the brink of a new Cold War’, fuelled in part by tensions over the coronavirus pandemic, as Muslims around the world celebrated a muted end to the holy month of Ramadan. Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday that Washington had been infected by … Read more
Cold War spy satellite imagery is helping scientists track the decline of animals and their habitats in Kazakhstan over the past 50 years Images from the Cold War’s Corona programme imaged a region of Kazakhstan The photographs were declassified five years after the fall of the Iron Curtain Scientists have used them to track the impact of … Read more
People who have never been infected with COVID-19 could already have some form of immunity against it, if they’ve fought off the common cold. Researchers analysed 11 blood samples taken two years ago, from people who had been struck down with another type of coronavirus. Half of the samples contained disease-fighting T cells that recognised … Read more
If you’re in the market for a fixer-upper with a difference – how about an abandoned Cold War-era nuclear missile site? There’s one going in Woolwich Township, New Jersey, for just $1.8million (£1.45million), complete with a swimming pool used by the troops and radar towers. The installation – Nike Battery PH-58 – was operational between … Read more
The month began with gin, and it wasn’t long before strange, melancholic headaches became a regular feature. By the third week of this particular month (I’m not saying which), things needed to change. That’s how I find myself at the Barberyn retreat and spa in Beruwala, an unfussy little town on Sri Lanka’s west coast, … Read more