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The Sony World Photography Awards 2021 is shaping up very nicely indeed. The judges have revealed the winners in the competition’s National Awards. And they’re quite something. Overall, the contest receives entries from over 200 territories. However, these winners are drawn from the 51 countries in its National Awards programme, which celebrates local photography talent. … Read more
The SNP’s civil war burst out into the open today as an MP called in police over a ‘vicious threat’ to her personal safety the day after she was sacked from a senior post. Police Scotland said officers are investigating following a report of ‘threatening communications’ being made online against Joanna Cherry. The 54-year-old, an ally of … Read more
Matt Damon and his family have spent their first day out of quarantine soaking up the sun with the Hemsworth clan in Lennox Head, near Byron Bay. Matt, 50, his wife Luciana Barroso, 45, and their daughters Isabella, 14, Gia, 12, and Stella, 10, were officially released into the Byron Bay community on Sunday morning, … Read more
Most of us operate at 50 per cent of our mental capacity. It’s like having a high-performance Ferrari and just using it to nip to the shops once in a while. Having spent the past 25 years practising as a neurosurgeon, there is not much I don’t know about the workings of the brain, and … Read more
The City’s last open outcry trading ring – at the London Metal Exchange (LME) – could close after 144 years. The site where traders shout at each other across the floor to set the world’s metal prices has been shut since Covid struck in March. But bosses at the LME now believe it is the … Read more
Icebergs in the Antarctic gradually melting further and further from the frozen continent could be the trigger that plunges Earth into a new ice age, study finds. Researchers from Cardiff University reconstructed past climate conditions and identified tiny fragments of Antarctic rock dropped in the open ocean as part of a study designed to understand … Read more
Ray Liotta looks ready for a workout as he makes his way to Gold’s Gym in Venice… 10 days after announcing engagement to Jacy Nittolo By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com Published: 07:07 GMT, 8 January 2021 | Updated: 07:07 GMT, 8 January 2021 Ray Liotta and Jacy Nittolo announced their engaged just 10 days ago. … Read more
A 21-year-old swimming teacher who had never rowed in her life before January has set off on a journey to become the youngest woman to race 3,000 miles solo across the Atlantic. Jasmine Harrison is taking part in the Talisker Atlantic Challenge, a gruelling challenge which will see her row across the world’s second-largest ocean … Read more
Dell Farm House is a Grade II-listed 17th-century pile with five bedrooms, four bathrooms and a rear wing that, according to the estate agent’s particulars, ‘could be easily used as a staff flat if needed’. Beyond the garden, which was ‘landscaped by Chelsea RHS Gold winners’ and includes terraced lawns, extensive herbaceous borders, lavender hedging … Read more
A huge iceberg weighing hundreds of billions of tons is now just 30 miles away from South Georgia – threatening the habitat of millions of penguins. Iceberg A68a – which broke from the Antarctic’s Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017 – slid towards the open ocean for over two years until it hit the powerful Circumpolar … Read more