Dorothy’s ruby slippers from Wizard of Oz movie to be auctioned off
A pair of ruby red slippers worn by actress Judy Garland in the classic movie The Wizard of Oz is set to be auctioned off Saturday. The iconic sequinned pumps were once stolen from a Minnesota museum. But now they are expected to fetch as much as $3m (£2.35m) at auction, according to Heritage Auctions. […]
Will coronavirus reverse globalisation?
Getty Images Coronavirus has halted many global deliveries Globalisation has been one of the buzzwords of the past 25 years. It may seem a rather strange concept, since any economic historian will tell you that people have been trading across vast distances for centuries, if not millennia. You only have to look at the medieval […]
Hull and Blackpool businesses given Government heat pump funding
Two businesses, in Hull and Blackpool, have been awarded multi-million pound government funding to increase the production of heat pumps. Ideal Heating, based on National Avenue, has been awarded £5.2m alongside cylinder manufacturer Gledhill. Both are subsidiaries of Groupe Atlantic. Miatta Fahnbulleh, minister for energy consumers, visited Ideal Heating’s headquarters in Hull and national training […]
The black princess who ‘took on a white world’
Amaal Said Reports from the time say Princess Dinubolu wore red robes The young woman arrived at Southend railway station by third class carriage with her heart set on winning the town’s beauty contest. But her entry would cause a scandal that made headlines around the world. Why? Because the year was 1908 – and […]
Massive Attack album stored in a painting using DNA
The album Mezzanine by Massive Attack has been stored using genetic information for the first time, using technology developed at ETH Zurich. Millions of copies of the album were put into spray paint using synthetic DNA. The music is then stored in any painting made using the spray can. So could DNA be the new […]
Fewer than half of IVF cycles are successful. These scientists are trying to change that
Serenity Strull/ BBC Eggs and sperm are delicate cells, so manipulating them during the IVF process can lead to damage (Credit: Serenity Strull/ BBC) It is more than 45 years since the first baby conceived using IVF – Louise Joy Brown – was born, yet the procedure is still a roll of the dice for […]
Women’s FA Cup: Leicester City 2-1 Reading – Foxes book Man City cup tie with win over WSL club
Paige Bailey-Gayle’s spectacular double helped Championship side Leicester dump out Super League side Reading, and book a Women’s FA Cup quarter final date with holders Manchester City. Reading led until 79 minutes through Brooke Chaplen’s first-half penalty. However, 18-year-old Bailey-Gayle smashed a shot in off a post from 25 yards to take the game to […]
Ireland set to launch contact-trace app
PA Media Police officers in Ireland trialled the app ahead of its planned national rollout Ireland’s health authority plans to press ahead with the launch of a coronavirus contact-tracing app based on Apple and Google’s technology. The Health Service Executive told the BBC that it would submit a memo to government this week, and “subject […]
South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol survives impeachment vote
Getty Images Lawmakers in South Korea have narrowly failed to impeach the nation’s president over his short-lived attempt to declare martial law. A bill to censure Yoon Suk Yeol fell three votes short of the 200 needed to pass, with many members of parliament in the ruling People Power Party (PPP) boycotting the vote. The […]
Farmers in Scotland say both sides ‘can co-exist side by side’
BBC Gwen Chalmers said farmers were doing their bit for the environment Farmers in Scotland who feel under “attack” as interest in the Veganuary trend grows have said both sides can exist side-by-side. Veganuary – the campaign highlighting avoiding animal products in the first month of the year – has risen in popularity since it […]