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NASA has spotted mysterious ‘spiderwebs’ on a never-before-explored region near the equator of Mars.The agency’s Curiosity rover has been dispatched to probe these bizarre structures — which cover a six to 12 mile stretch of Martian desert — as the machine searches for signs that this long desolate world once supported alien life.Geologists suspect that the spiderwebs are a gigantic version of a type of crystalized minerals, known as a ‘boxwork,’ that appear inside some caves on Earth. Some of America’s most spiderweb-like boxwork can be seen on the ceiling of Wind Cave in North Dakota. Its web-like shapes are created as calcium carbonate mineral water seeps into…
A heartbroken father has paid tribute to his ‘inspiring’ son, who died aged just 18 after a five-year struggle with bone cancer — which the family mistook for growing pains.Joseph Tegerdine, from Utah, started to complain of pains in his knee in 2019, when he was 13. The sensation mostly arrived after playing football and during a ‘sudden growth spurt’ leading his father, Joe Sr, to tell their son that bone pain was natural for his stage of life. However, when the pain didn’t subside the family sought help at the local hospital, where Joseph underwent an X-ray and an MRI scan. The…
By JACK BEZANTS Published: 00:44 EST, 26 November 2024 | Updated: 01:21 EST, 26 November 2024 Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Tershawn Wharton was the hero of the moment after his team beat the Carolina Panthers on Sunday when he rescued a young fan who fell out of the stands.Footage has gone viral of the young Chiefs fan waving at players leaving the field – Travis Kelce can even be spotted in the corner of the frame.But as he took his gloves off to gift to the young fan in question, disaster nearly struck. The child, wearing a Nick Bolton…
Iran’s supreme leader said Netanyahu ought to be executed By PERKIN AMALARAJ Published: 10:34 EST, 25 November 2024 | Updated: 10:50 EST, 25 November 2024 Iran’s supreme leader has claimed Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be ‘sentenced to death’ for alleged war crimes committed in the ongoing wars in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the remarks Monday during an event in which he spoke to members of the Basij, the all-volunteer arm of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.Khamenei added that the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Israel’s former Defense Minister Yoav…
By SHAUN WOOLLER Published: 19:01 EST, 12 May 2024 | Updated: 19:25 EST, 12 May 2024 Long-term sickness is now the main reason women are out of the labour market with poor mental health up by more than a quarter in five years.The number of women who are economically inactive due to long-term sickness soared to 1.54million in 2023 – the highest on record.This is up 48 per cent – 503,000 – since 2018, according to the Office for National Statistics.It means women on long-term sick outnumber female students, homemakers, early retirees, and ‘discouraged workers’ – those who think there…
By JAKE FENNER Published: 09:31 EST, 25 November 2024 | Updated: 09:32 EST, 25 November 2024 Webster’s Dictionary defines the word ‘kerning’ as, ‘to adjust or specify the width of the side bearings [space] between certain pairs of adjacent characters [in this case, letters] in order to improve the appearance and legibility of composed text.’While the Philadelphia 76ers may not have been aware of this word before Sunday night, they’re well aware of it now after a rather unfortunate final score graphic was posted by the team.The Sixers were wearing their retro uniforms in a game at home against the…
By CALUM MUIRHEAD Updated: 17:01 EST, 25 November 2024 Barclays has been fined £40million after raising cash from Qatar.Regulators said the move was ‘reckless and lacked integrity’. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) told the banking giant that it should have provided more details about an emergency cash injection that helped it avoid a taxpayer bailout during the 2008 financial crisis.The Government took large stakes while bailing out Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland as the industry teetered on the brink of collapse more than a decade ago.The Treasury is still a major shareholder in NatWest, as RBS is now called, with…
Christina Haack pulled the big guns by firing Dearmey Law APC and hiring ‘Disso Queen’ Laura Wasser to represent her in her divorce battle against estranged third husband Josh Hall.’Christina was not happy with the progress or lack thereof,’ a source told Us Weekly on Monday.’She decided to go with the best divorce attorney out there to try and wrap this up quickly and fairly.’The 41-year-old interior designer officially filed a change of attorney with the Superior Court of California in Orange County last Friday.The 56-year-old Wasser, Cooperman & Mandles partner has previously repped celebs like Angelina Jolie, Ryan Reynolds,…
Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company Blue Origin has been forced to take down a video of female astronaut after she was hit by a wave of sexual and misogynistic comments.The clip included footage of Emily Calandrelli, also known as ‘Space Gal,’ hanging upside down in the weightlessness of the capsule, as she gazed out the window and said ‘oh my God, this is space.’Thousands of internet trolls seized the moment to ruin her experience by ‘sexualizing’ the amateur astronaut.One X user commented: ‘It’s not an achievement being a woman.’Another man asked: ‘Would you consider yourself the hottest woman to ever go to space?…
I’m writing this from my pitch-black bedroom with a packet of Tylenol and a jug of water by my bedside as I battle a pulsating migraine.I don’t have the flu and I’m not hungover — I’m recovering from a day of trying to eat and drink like Donald Trump.I actually have a newfound respect for the president-elect, who consumes multiple McDonald’s burgers, Milky Way candy bars, Doritos chips, milkshakes and up to a dozen Diet Cokes per day.How, at 78, he managed to survive two assassination attempts, tour the country doing hours-long rallies and win an election while consuming this cocktail of…