Former Home and Away star Dee Smart discusses her cancer battle during a surprise TV interview nearly THREE decades after her stint on the soap By Jabeen Waheed For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:21 BST, 3 July 2020 | Updated: 04:24 BST, 3 July 2020 It has been nearly three decades since Dee Smart was … Read more
Usually by this stage in June I’m obsessively checking the ten-day forecast for Glastonbury. Will it be another ghastly mudfest or will we all be smiling seraphically in the sunshine? This week, hundreds of thousands of us were meant to be heading off to the 50th anniversary of the festival. For me, a proud Glasto … Read more
Scientists predict Mediterranean could see a 40% decline in rainfall in the coming decades, leading to water shortages, agricultural shortfalls, and civil unrest A new MIT study predicts major rainfall shortages in the Mediterranean The declines will be driven by changes in the jetstream and shrinking difference in temperatures on land and sea that will … Read more
The North Korean state newspaper has admitted that the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, cannot bend space and time after years of mythologising him. The admission from the Rodong Sinmun newspaper is the latest sign that the country is moving away from propagandizing myths about its leaders, and is instead taking an approach that focuses … Read more
Women could be allowed to freeze their eggs for DECADES as government reviews current ten-year limit After 10 years frozen eggs must be used in fertility treatment or destroyed Campaigners say the current practice is arbitrary’ and has no scientific basis Treatment cycles with frozen eggs rose from 410 in 2012 to 1,462 in 2017 By … Read more
DNA tests reveal Australian wineries have been mislabeling an expensive type of grape for DECADES French agriculture authority tested Australian wines labeled as petit manseng Based on the grape’s DNA, they discovered the wines were made from gros manseng grapes, a different but related variety The Australian government believes the issue was caused by the … Read more
Middle-aged people are suffering almost 20 per cent more stress than they were two decades ago, researchers have discovered. The root of the problem lies in the ‘generational squeeze’ of having dependent parents on one side and grown-up children struggling to start a career on the other. This adds up to the equivalent of an extra … Read more
China suffers worst quarter for six decades, raising fears for health of global economy By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:55 BST, 12 April 2020 | Updated: 22:17 BST, 12 April 2020 China suffered its worst quarter for six decades, raising fears for the health of the global economy. Output in the world’s … Read more
Coronavirus may have been circulating among people for years or even decades before it became the deadly pandemic that’s killed more than 36,000 people worldwide, a new study suggests. An international team of scientists traced the evolution of the virus and proposed two possible origin stories for it. One was that it might have developed … Read more
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines is worth $37billion (£28billion) and flies to 370 destinations on six continents with state-of-the-art aircraft. Truly, it’s a titan of aviation. But it started life as a crop-dusting outfit in 1924. And when it expanded to passenger transportation it used planes that could only hit 90mph, with the wind behind them. … Read more