EPA/REUTERS Oskar Groening was found guilty of participation in the murders of 300,000 people In July 2015 94-year-old former Auschwitz camp bookkeeper Groening – he was responsible for collating and shipping back to Berlin the possessions of the dead – was found guilty of participation in the murders of 300,000 […]
Daily Archives: January 17, 2018
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Tour buses were pelted with eggs, visitors were told to go home, and tyres slashed in a number of vandalism cases last summer. Spain’s Tourism Minister said the “tourist phobia” was simple “vandalism” by yobs making “unreasonable attacks on the tourist sector”. Minister of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda, Álvaro […]
GETTY Don and Yvonne Cormack were stabbed and robbed in Cape Town Don and Yvonne Cormack, from Harlow, Essex, were knifed on Table Mountain, in the city of Cape Town, Western Cape province, south-western South Africa. Mr Cormack, 71, has been left in hospital after being stabbed nine times by […]
N/A Mary Wesley’s novel The Camomile Lawn set pulses racing when it was published The book’s content set pulses racing while nude scenes in an equally popular spin-off TV mini-series also shocked viewers. Both depicted the antics of an extended dysfunctional family, whose passions were liberated by war and their […]
Duncan Usher / Alamy Stock Photo A SIMPLE rule governs a seemingly random phenomenon: the sizes of the groups in which primates live. It seems our closest living relatives opt for social groupings that aren’t as varied and flexible as you might think. Susanne Shultz at the University of Manchester, […]
The meteor was seen across the region in places such as Ohio, Michigan and Ontario at about 8pm local time and registered a 2 magnitude tremor about 4 miles east of Saint Clair Shores in Eastern Michigan, the United States Geological Survey said on its website. The National Weather Service […]
Three in four drivers believe motoring manners have got worse in the past decade. The Ford survey of 2,000 motorists found that the top bugbears are throwing rubbish out of car windows, making loud hands-free calls, playing music too loudly, inconsiderate parking and grooming in the rear-view mirror, with aggressive […]
Researchers from the University of Bath, who developed the device, say it is cheap, sustainable and recyclable. The technology was inspired by the simplicity of litmus paper – commonly used for the rapid assessment of acidity in water. It consists of a microbial fuel cell (MFC) obtained by screen printing […]