Banksy has disguised himself as a Tube cleaner to graffiti a bustling train as it went through central London in a piece named: ‘If you don’t mask – you don’t get’, it was revealed today. The guerrilla artist, dressed in a high-vis jacket, boiler suit, goggles and face mask, paints a black rat coughing and … Read more
An Essex pub has become the latest to shut down for a deep clean after a customer tested positive for coronavirus. The Crown & Anchor in Aveley has been forced to close its doors for 72 hours. It comes after several pubs and restaurants were forced to close last week after customers later tested positive for … Read more
At least 21 dead after a Chinese bus full of passengers swerved into oncoming traffic before plunging off a bridge into a 50ft deep reservoir The incident occurred at noon today in south-western Chinese city Anshun At least 21 died while another 15 were treated at a hospital, authorities said CCTV footage shows the vehicle … Read more
Prince Harry has spoken about the ‘challenges of digging deep to find resilience’ during the Covid-19 crisis in a new video message for his Sentebale charity. The Duke of Sussex, 35, shared the video from Tyler Perry’s $18 million mansion where he is currently living, having stepped back from royal duty in March. In the video, … Read more
Water deep below the surface of the Earth triggers earthquakes and tsunamis by lowering the melting point of rocks along fault lines, a new study reveals. UK scientists say they’ve found a correlation between water release data and levels of seismic activity along the Caribbean-American tectonic plate border. This process occurs in subduction zones, where … Read more
A 157-day cycle of radio bursts coming from the same spot in deep space could help astronomers pin down what causes the mysterious signals, a new study reveals. Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) are very short but very intense pulses of radio waves. They were first discovered in 2007, but their origins remain unknown to astronomers. This … Read more
Giant hexagonal storm that has raged around Saturn’s north pole for over four decades is caused by massive cyclones deep in the planet’s atmosphere, study shows Researchers created a computer model to simulate conditions found on Saturn They then ran the simulation to see if a hexagonal polar storm would be formed They found these … Read more
Former NASA astronaut and geologist Kathy Sullivan has become the first woman to dive to lowest point on Earth, known as Challenger Deep, inside the Mariana Trench. Sullivan, 68, emerged from the submersible DSV Limiting Factor (LF) on Sunday, which performed a successful expedition at more than 35,000 feet below the ocean’s surface. LF, built … Read more
The choice of Richard Hughes as next chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility will be a critical one for the Boris Johnson era. Covid-19 had turned Britain’s budgetary verities on their head. In wartime, extraordinary levels of borrowing and debt are acceptable, as predecessor Robert Chote intelligently pointed out in Commons testimony at the … Read more
Thousands of Britons who have swabbed themselves for coronavirus will have been wrongly told they don’t have Covid-19, experts fear. Anyone with symptoms of the virus – a fever, cough or lost sense of smell – can now book an appointment to get tested at a drive-through centre or have one posted. But even people … Read more