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Starwatch: Ursids meteor shower to appear in largely dark sky
Another week, another meteor shower. Last week it was the highly reliable Geminids meteor shower, this week it is the lesser shower known as the Ursids. Whereas the Geminids were disrupted by the presence of a full moon, the Ursids will appear in a largely dark sky. Only after midnight …
Serbian authorities using spyware to illegally surveil activists, report finds
Police and intelligence services in Serbia are using advanced mobile forensics products and previously unknown spyware to illegally surveil journalists, environmental campaigners and civil rights activists, according to a report.
mobile forensic products from the Israeli firm Cellebrite are used to unlock and …‘Something horrible’: Somerset pit reveals bronze age cannibalism
A collection of human bones discovered 50 years ago in a Somerset pit are evidence of the bloodiest known massacre in British prehistory – and of bronze age cannibalism, archaeologists say.
At least 37 men, women and children were killed at some point between 2200BC and 2000BC, with their …
Chancellor’s call for civil service savings will sound all too familiar to Whitehall
Experienced Whitehall officials would have been forgiven for experiencing a sense of deja vu when listening to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, this month as she laid out her plans to drive efficiencies from the civil service as part of her spending review.
“The previous government allowed millions of pounds of …
The Anti-Sports Personality of the Year awards 2024
Voters broadly accept Reeves’s £40bn of tax rises, research shows
Who is Han Duck-soo, South Korea’s new acting president?
Prime minister Han Duck-soo, who became South Korea’s acting president after Saturday’s impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol, is a career technocrat whose wide-ranging experience and reputation for rationality could serve him well in his latest role.
against Yoon passed after his short-lived attempt …Netanyahu says he held ‘friendly’ talks with Trump over Syria and Gaza hostages
Benjamin Netanyahu has said he spoke to Donald Trump over the weekend about his plans in Syria and efforts to secure the release of hostages in Gaza amid a wave of strikes in the territory.
The Israeli prime minister said in an address on Sunday night: “We had a very …
‘Human body can only take so much’: home in Australia, remaining Bali Nine face their new normal
On Sunday afternoon, the Bishop of Townsville received an anonymous text message he’d spent nearly two decades waiting for: “Wheels up, the Bali 5 are on their way back to Australia”.
Timothy Harris, who provided pastoral care to the families of Scott Rush and Michael Czugaj after their arrest in …
Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv accuses Moscow of recklessness after oil tanker sinks in storm
Ukrainian officials
accused Moscow of recklessness
on Sunday after one oil tanker sank and a second vessel ran aground in the Kerch Strait between mainland Russia and occupied Crimea during stormy weather
.Dmytro Pletenchuk
, Ukraine’s navy spokesperson, said: “These are quite old Russian tankers. You can’t …