Prostate cancer screening methods trialled in ‘pivotal moment’
Methods of screening men for prostate cancer will be trialled in an attempt to save thousands of lives in the UK each year, in what has been hailed as a “pivotal moment” by experts. The £42m project, known as Transform,…
Australia news live: companies bidding for Victoria’s offshore wind zone get green tick from Bowen; NSW police investigate drive-by shooting
Star of the South, long considered a frontrunner to become Australia’s first offshore wind farm, High Sea Wind, Gippsland Skies, Blue Mackerel, Kut-Wut Brataualung and Ørsted Offshore Australia. The Gippsland offshore wind zone has to-date not faced the criticism, some…
G7 agree to end use of unabated coal power plants by 2035
Ministers from the G7 countries agreed on Tuesday to end the use of unabated coal power plants by 2035 – but left the door open for those heavily reliant on coal to breach the deadline. After two days of talks…
Saracens face fresh blow after Vunipola arrest with Itoje set for suspension
Saracens’ woes have been compounded after Billy Vunipola’s arrest in Mallorca with Maro Itoje facing the prospect of a suspension that could rule him out for the club’s end-of-season run-in. Only 24 hours after news of Vunipola’s arrest emerged, Itoje…
‘I know what it’s like to be stared at’: Shardlake star Arthur Hughes on playing CJ Sansom’s disabled Tudor sleuth
Arthur Hughes wants to go on adventures. “When I was little,” he says, “I loved films. I loved Jurassic Park. I loved Back to the Future. I loved things I probably wasn’t supposed to watch, like Predator. And then of…
After 25 years, logging and bushfires, a greater glider has been spotted in Deongwar state forest
It’s just after 8pm when Jess Lovegrove-Walsh, walking down a pitch-black fire trail through bushland about 100km west of Brisbane, trains her spotlight on a pair of laser-red eyes deep in the canopy. “That’s a big long tail, it’s either…
Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’
Beneath the turquoise waters off Heron Island lies a huge, brain-shaped Porites coral that, in health, would be a rude shade of purplish-brown. Today that coral outcrop, or bommie, shines snow white. Prof Terry Hughes, a coral bleaching expert at…
England and Key expect World T20 ‘slugfest’ as muscle ripples from top
England will travel to the Caribbean for their T20 World Cup defence in June without an anchor aboard ship, their team director, Rob Key, instead confident that six-hitting power is the best way to approach a possible “slugfest”. This much…
Miami Grand Prix organizers stop plans for Trump fundraiser in luxury suite
Officials with the Miami Grand Prix recently halted a Donald Trump presidential campaign fundraiser being planned for the upcoming Formula One race, sending a cease-and-desist letter to its organizer. A Miami Grand Prix representative notified Steven Witkoff, a close friend…
A cunning plan! Could Ben Elton bring back Blackadder?
Name: Blackadder. Age: The first episode of Blackadder aired in June 1983, so just shy of 41. “Black Adder! Black Adder! With many a cunning plan! Black Adder! Black Adder! You horrid little man!” You remember, then? Remember? It’s comedy…