Instability caused by the failed Wagner group rebellion could lead to a “collapse in morale” or even a mutiny among the Russian military that could change the course of the Ukraine war, a former MI6 boss has said.Sir Alex Younger said that despite successes on the battlefield achieved by the Ukrainians last year, they are not expected to make a breakthrough just yet that would see them driving...
If you thought that beatboxing was a uniquely human skill, feel again – orangutans also can make two noises at once.The researchers believe the findings could provide clues to the evolution of human speech and beatboxing.They say early human language may have been closer to beatboxing than how we speak today, offering an unexpectedly block-rocking image of ancient human history.Scientists...
A man who bit a woman’s hands and threatened to rape her in a terrifying harassment campaign has been spared jail.Hassan Ali, 34, had followed the victim to her workplace in Ilford, east London, on 6 March 2020 after she refused to answer his calls.He then assaulted her, snatching her phone away, hitting her face, scratching her arm, and biting her hands, jurors were told.Ali, of East Ham, east...
Three men have been arrested for kidnap in connection with the disappearance of a schoolgirl who vanished after travelling 175 miles to a London party.Carmelle Hepi, 13, was reported missing from home in Barnsley after midnight on Sunday.Detectives believed she travelled to London by train on Saturday and attended a birthday party in Watling Street, Peckham, that evening.It is believed she left...
The partner of Nicola Bulley texted her, “Have you got lost?” on the morning she went missing, her inquest has heard.After carrying out the school run, the 45-year-old mother-of-two disappeared on January 27 while walking her dog along the River Wyre in St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire.Her disappearance sparked a massive police search before her body was found on February 19 by walkers.On...
The noise from wind farms is no more disruptive to sleep than road traffic, researchers have found.Campaigners have previously claimed that low-frequency noises – including ‘infrasound’, or below our hearing range – affect human sleep.Now scientists have analysed 460 sleep nights with 68 participants over five years.The study by Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, found that wind...
Londoners who spotted swimmers bathing in a busy section of the River Thames on Sunday evening screamed at them to get out before somebody was hurt.Shortly after 7 pm, two women entered the water at Folly House Beach, on the section of the river opposite the Greenwich Peninsula Golf Range.The swimmers – believed to have been tourists – swam around 20 metres from the shore, leaving onlookers...
The Met Office is not ruling out that there will be more heatwaves this summer.Forecasters say there is a “greater than normal chance of heatwaves” between the middle and the end of July.Sunday was the joint hottest day of the year, with temperatures reaching 32.2C in Coningsby, Lincolnshire.This matched the previous high set on 10 June in Chertsey, Surrey.Temperatures are set to cool somewhat in...
The excellent Glastonbury clean-up is underway as thousands return home after a weekend of music.About 1,000 volunteers picked up litter on Monday morning to restore the 800-acre site at Worthy Farm to its normal state when revellers don’t populate it.It is thought that 210,000 people attended the festival from Wednesday until Sunday, headlined by Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses and Elton John...
MPs, campaigners and activists are increasingly concerned that savings rates are failing to keep pace with the rapid rise in borrowing costs, putting the behavior of the UK’s biggest banks in the spotlight. There are a few reasons why UK banks are taking so long to pass higher interest rates on to savers: Competition: Banks compete with each other for customers and only want to offer higher...