New Guinea has the greatest variety of plants of any island in the world

New Guinea has the most diverse island plant life in the world according to researchers, who found it had 20 per cent more flora than Madagascar or Borneo. Experts from the University of Zurich examined 700,000 plant specimens from the southwestern Pacific island as part of a study into its ecosystem diversity.   Two-thirds of the species … Read more

Survivors mark 75th anniversary of world’s 1st atomic attack

Japan has marked the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing with a memorial service led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as survivors urge for a ban on nuclear weapons. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was joined by survivors, their relatives and officials to mark the 8.15am blast anniversary with a minute of silence at Hiroshima’s Peace … Read more

Pregnant Shelby Tribble displays her blossoming baby bump as she poses in a white swimsuit

Pregnant Shelby Tribble displays her blossoming baby bump as she poses in a white swimsuit while on holiday in Mallorca By Sean O’grady For Mailonline Published: 10:12 BST, 6 August 2020 | Updated: 10:13 BST, 6 August 2020 She has been soaking up the sun during her getaway to Majorca with her boyfriend Sam Mucklow. … Read more

Want a last-minute staycation? Try a youth hostel in the Peak District, known as the English Alps

Here’s a useful little secret for you: Britain’s youth hostels are open for business. They’re cheap, located in beautiful areas and have taken Covid precautions. And best of all, they have vacancies. I stumbled across this information two weeks back. After foreign holidays hit the wall and every B&B in Britain sold out a few … Read more

Twitter mob rounds on Kirstie Allsopp after she suggested employees SHOULD return to the office

A Twitter mob of outraged work-from-home Britons who do not want to return to the office have rounded on Kirstie Allsop for suggesting that they are more at risk of losing their jobs in the coming wave of mass Coronavirus redundancies.   The Location, Location, Location presenter’s comments, in which she urged people to go back … Read more

Cold callers blamed for test and trace failures due to NHS using 0300 numbers

Cold callers are being blamed for failures in the NHS Test and Trace service because people do not want to answer ‘unrecognisable’ 0300 numbers.  Call centre staff trying to reach people who have come into contact with positive coronavirus cases say many people ignore their calls because the 0300 prefix is often used by cold … Read more

Germany should have sought Italy’s okay to extradite…

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Bruekner was illegally extradited to Germany to face a rape trial, EU’s top court is told German authorities did not follow correct procedure when they extradited Christian Brueckner from Italy, an adviser to Europe’s top court has claimed  German was extradited to Germany from Italy under the warrant in 2018 and … Read more

Teaching union threatens to keep schools shut in September

Militant teaching unions who openly bragged about a ‘win’ over the government’s u-turn on bringing students back before summer have today threatened to keep schools closed in September. Bosses at the National Education Union (NEU), the UK’s largest teaching union, say it may be ‘impossible’ for ‘many’ schools to reopen at the start of the … Read more

Busy Philipps shows off her incredible figure in a plunging red bikini top and shorts

She’s been spending time at home in Los Angeles with her husband Marc Silverstein and their daughters Birdie Leigh, 11, and Cricket Pearl, seven. And Busy Philipps revealed her joy after her youngest child gushed about the star’s appearance, after she strolled around in a bikini top and shorts on Wednesday. The actress, 41, looked sensational as … Read more