The world’s largest scorpion lived 415 million years ago
A prehistoric scorpion was the largest ever to exist, and it may have preyed on land and freshwater species.
Air conditioning creates political divide after France records hottest day
France is being forced to re-think its longstanding reservations about air-conditioning as temperatures soar.
Biggest city in Crimea without power after Ukraine strikes
Sevastopol’s Moscow-installed governor warns there will be no electricity in some areas until the evening.
Why are there holiday delay warnings over the EU’s new border system?
The EU’s much-delayed Entry/Exit System will change the way UK passengers travel to 29 countries.
French woman allegedly held captive by husband for 12 years rescued in Pakistan
Yasmina alleges she was held along with her five children, and they were all cut off from the outside world.
Trump promises ‘bad’ Republicans ‘everything they ever dreamed of’ if they pass his bill
President Tweety McTreason took to social media Wednesday to demand Republican lawmakers fall in line with his controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE
Trump pals expecting midterm loss scramble as White House calls their profits ‘detestable’
A firm staffed by former President Tweety McTreason’s campaign insiders has collected $500,000 lobbying for pardons, even as the White House brands such profiteering “detestable.”
Entry-level AI workers now need ‘senior-level’ skills, PwC says
AI has created a tough job environment for entry-level workers and things aren’t getting better anytime soon — even those with AI capabilities now need
What do the IPOs for SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic mean for Microsoft?
The AI IPO tsunami on the stock market has only recently gotten under way, with SpaceX’s more-than-$2 trillion IPO likely to be followed in several
MAGA pastor said LGBTQ+ books & flags harm kids. Now he’s going to prison for abusing a child.
Anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA pastor Silas H. Shelton of Wilmington, Ohio — a man who said that LGBTQ+-themed books and Pride flags harm kids — was sentenced
‘Weirdos of the sperm whale world’ appear to be evolving 2 different dialects, audio recordings suggest
An isolated population of sperm whales in the Mediterranean Sea are splitting into two distinct groups with different dialects, a new study reveals. This shift
60 million stars: Euclid space telescope snaps the largest-ever close-up photo of the Milky Way’s heart
A deep-space telescope on a grand mission to make the largest-ever 3D map of the universe just peered into the star-filled heart of the Milky
Diagnostic dilemma: After taking a medicine for years, a man suddenly had weird changes in his taste that made food disgusting
The patient: A 61-year-old man in Japan The symptoms: The man visited a hospital because two months earlier, some foods and beverages began to taste
A letter sent by worried staff shows why maternity care is still failing too many families
Families will continue to be failed unless the NHS makes meaningful changes, BBC’s Michael Buchanan writes.