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Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour rejects Roger Waters reunion over support for ‘genocidal dictators’
Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free David Gilmour has firmly rejected the idea he will ever again share a stage withContinue Reading
Erik ten Hag comes clean on Man Utd meltdown vs Porto and hooking Rashford
Erik ten Hag has described the ‘middle part’ of Manchester United’s dramatic Europa League draw with Porto as ‘not good’, admitting his side need to be better at controlling matches. Harry Maguire’s stoppage-time header secured a 3-3 stalemate and is likely to have saved Ten Hag the time to turnContinue Reading
Man Utd winners and losers as Bruno Fernandes sent off again in Porto draw
Harry Maguire salvaged Erik ten Hag’s job with a stoppage-time equaliser in a dramatic 3-3 Europa League draw with Porto. During a remarkable game in which the Red Devils led 2-0, fell 3-2 behind, had Bruno Fernandes sent off for the second game in a row and then drew levelContinue Reading
British police cars, American biscuits and wild donkeys – what life is like on the Chagos Islands
Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email A military presence hangs heavy over the Chagos Islands’ crystal clear blue seas and white sand beaches amid a “hodge podge” of British and American cultures.Continue Reading
Scientists discover how ants took advantage of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs
Ants started farming 66 million years ago in the aftermath of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, a new study suggests. Colonies of ants began farming the fungi as it experienced “a heyday”, according to scientists. The asteroid created ideal conditions for them to thrive, despite causing global massContinue Reading
Sebastian Stan ate ramen and soy sauce to ‘puff up’ his face to play Donald Trump
Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Sebastian Stan has revealed he ate ramen with “a bunch of soy sauce” to prepare for hisContinue Reading
Four in five pregnant women in Ireland are iron deficient – here’s why that’s worrying
Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock More than 80% of pregnant women in Ireland are iron deficient by their third trimester, according to a new study my colleagues and I conducted. What we found particularly surprising was that the women were in otherwise good health. Working alongside the University of Minnesota and theContinue Reading
Why women are still being underdiagnosed with heart disease
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women worldwide. Emily frost/ Shutterstock Women in the UK continue to be underdiagnosed and under-treated for cardiovascular diseases, a recent statement from the British Cardiovascular Societies has concluded. While there are many reasons for this, part of the problem is thatContinue Reading
Boris Johnson regrets not sacking ‘homicidal robot’ Dominic Cummings over Barnard Castle debacle
Boris Johnson has branded his former chief of staff Dominic Cummings as “weird” and compared him to a “homicidal robot” as he blamed him for his downfall as prime minister. In his new autobiography Unleashed, the Mr Johnson charted the collapse of his relationship with Cummings from the high pointContinue Reading
Blue Zones offered hope as real-life fountains of youth – new research says they can be explained by comically flawed data
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