World’s oldest piece of mahogany is found in Canada and dates back almost 80MILLION years to when the dinosaurs roamed the planet Chunk of mahogany was found in a piece of rock found near Vancouver Island It was dated to between 72 and 79 million years old – the end of the Cretaceous Previous evidence … Read more
Nurse, 70, who served 44 years with NHS and consultant geriatrician are latest frontline heroes to die after treating coronavirus patients Alice Kit Tak Ong served 44 years with the NHS and died yesterday morning Moved to UK from Hong Kong and was ‘completely dedicated’ to her patients Dr Anton Sebastianpillai died last week and … Read more
This sprawling cliffside hotel might just be a contender for the world’s most eccentric – and is definitely a contender for any self-respecting post-lockdown bucket list. It takes architectural design in all manner of unexpected directions, with not a straight line to be seen. ‘Casapueblo’, near the Uruguayan beach-city celebrity-haunt of Punta del Este, was … Read more
It is a canard of investing wisdom that short term stock market gyrations should not really matter. If you have invested for the long term in a way that suits your objectives and attitude to risk, just sit tight. But what is short term and long term? Five years has always been the standard stipulation … Read more
An eczema sufferer who has taken steroids to help her skin condition for the last 40 years has told how she has been left looking 20 years older after kicking the habit. Ruth Holroyd, 46, from Buckinghamshire, has suffered with eczema for most of her life, and recalled times where at worst, she would tear … Read more
Energy use in the US drops to the lowest point in 16 YEARS as coronavirus shutdowns cause industrial and retail sector power consumption to fall Edison Electric Institute predicts a three percent drop in power consumption The biggest driver of the declines are retail and factory closures Residential power consumption is also declining as milder … Read more
A bad time to be alive’: More than half of all Earth’s ocean life died off 444 million years ago because it ran out of oxygen, study shows Researchers studied samples of black shale from the Murzuq Basin in Libya They used this and existing data to build a model of ancient ocean oxygen levels It suggested … Read more
The Himalayas have become visible from parts of India for the first time in 30 years. Pollution levels across much of the country – infamous for its dirty air – have dropped sharply amid the country’s lockdown as it tackles coronavirus. Locals from the Jalandhar district in Punjab, nearly 125 miles away from the Himalayas, flocked … Read more
Dave Lewis, the chief executive of Tesco, announced plans to step down this October some time before coronavirus struck, but had he been harbouring any ideas of winding down as his leaving date approached – admittedly that was never very likely – they went by the board when the pandemic struck. Rather than a leisurely … Read more