Belgian mounted police TRAMPLE revellers with their horses and use water cannons in violent clashes as they try to clear thousands lured to ‘festival’ in park by April Fools’ prank Belgians rushed to park in Brussels to attend the fake ‘La Boum’ music festival Huge crowds launched into a party on the grass, with speakers … Read more
The most moving story you’ll read this week: Dying woman who was the first female mounted police officer in the world is granted her final wish Rita Meredith believed to have been the UK’s first female mounted police officer Ms Meredith, 75, is in palliative care in Newcastle and not expected to leave Her dying … Read more
The most moving story you’ll read this week: Dying woman who was the first female mounted police officer in the world is granted her final wish Rita Meredith believed to have been the UK’s first female mounted police officer She is unwell in Calvary Mater Newcastle hospital and not expected to leave Her dying wish to … Read more
Forget ‘a bull in a china shop’ — tomorrow, members of the public will be able to take remote control of an armed, paintball-firing robotic dog in an art gallery. Quirky, chaos-loving, New York-based start-up MSCHF (pronounced ‘mischief’) are behind the campaign, which highlights the risk of such machines being misused. MSCHF mounted the compressed air … Read more
Serbia’s president has blamed protesters for spreading coronavirus as rock-throwing activists face off against mounted police in third night of violence after he tried to reintroduce lockdown. President Aleksander Vucic brought in one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe in March in order to combat the virus, before prematurely declaring victory in May and lifting … Read more
The world may never know why a Stone Age man’s head was placed on a stake and tossed into an underwater grave, but now it will see his face. A forensic artist harnessed the power of 3D facial reconstruction to piece together the features on 8,000-year-old jawless skull to show a man with a pointy … Read more
Elsa McAlonan’s Beauty Upgrades: How to widen eyes and distract from under-eye bags with mounted brows Elsa McAlonan reveals the best products for creating the illusion of full brows She also shares the shimmer lotion Jennifer Lopez uses to get summer-ready British beauty expert rounds up the best tinted moisturisers to use at each age … Read more
Archaeologists have unravelled the demise of a high-ranking warrior in Ancient Greece who underwent incredibly complex head and neck surgery 1,500 years ago. It is thought the male was a high-ranking Caballarius — a mounted archer or lancer — in the Grecian army whose life was ultimately ended by a fatal ear infection. Detailed analysis … Read more