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Oxford professor first saw unusual sight on remote island in Wales Via: Rare video shows puffin using stick as a tool – to scratch an itch

‘The man did not speak as he stabbed the victim three times,’ police say Via: Streatham stabbing: Mother pushing her child in buggy attacked by 'silent' assailant in London

Katy Mathes, her sister, mother, cousin and three aunts had breasts and/or ovaries and fallopian tubes removed after incorrectly being told they had a gene with a high risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Via: 7 women in family who had surgeries for 'Jolie gene' learn results may have been Read more

Conditions worsen with more than 4,000 on the beach at Mallacoota in Victoria after a devastating day yesterday and the death of a firefighter in New South Wales. Follow live news and latest updatesHow big are the fires burning in eastern Australia? Interactive map 1.59am GMT Old Genoa Bridge on Read more

High winds were blamed for causing the blades to come undone on a wind turbine at least 250 feet high, sending debris to the ground and toppling a billboard that crushed several cars below Via: Horrifying moment wind turbine SNAPS off and topples advertising billboard which crushes cars below

Authorities believe about 4000 people are still at Mallacoota, in the state’s far east, which is being hit by fire about 8.30am on Tuesday. Via: Mallacoota bushfire hell: 4,000 trapped on beach in Victoria

The UK Government has threatened to intervene over ‘serious concerns’ about the 19-year-old British woman’s treatment during a five-month-long court case which saw her convicted in Cyprus. Via: Ministers threaten to step in as British teenager convicted of inventing 'gang rape' in Ayia Napa

EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan insisted Mr Johnson would cave and agree to keep Britain locked inside the bloc’s single market and customs union beyond the end of next year. Via: Phil Hogan doubts Boris Johnson's Brexit plan

Through Christchurch, Whakaari, the murder of Grace Millane, it is the Māori rituals, and each other, that sustain usThe phrase “a year that was bookended by tragedy” is too neat, somehow.Tragedy moves through time differently from other events. Time seems to stop then start again fitfully. As it gathers momentum, Read more

He Jiankui was guilty of illegal practices in trying to alter the genetic makeup of twin girlsA Chinese court has sentenced He Jiankui, the scientist who sparked global controversy last year when he claimed to have created the world’s first “gene-edited” children, to three years in prison for violating medical Read more