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Fanfare and flyovers as France celebrates Bastille DaySoldiers from the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ and Ukraine took centre stage in the parade through Paris.6 hrs agoEurope
Tyrannosaurus rex fossil sells for record price at auctionA 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex has been sold for £37.4m ($50.1m) at a Sotheby’s auction in New York – the most ever paid for a dinosaur.The fossil of this infamous predator stands more than 12 feet (4m) tall, and with over 60% of its bones recovered is one of “the most complete” specimens ever found, according to Sotheby’s.The winning bidder at the sale on Tuesday has not yet been disclosed.Gus, as the T. rex has been affectionately named, was discovered in 2021 on a remote ranch in the US State of South…
Firefighters search lift shaft after deadly fire in Brussels construction siteSeveral people have died in a fire at a building under construction in Brussels on Tuesday, local authorities have said.The cause of the fire at the Oxy tower in the centre of the city is unclear, with officials saying at least six people are missing.While it was put out quickly, when firefighters entered the building they discovered it had spread to the lift shafts, where two lifts were stuck. They were able to pry one open and found “several victims – we don’t yet know exactly how many,” said Brecht…
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WASHINGTON (news agencies) — An experimental drug might help slow early Alzheimer’s disease in a markedly different way than today’s treatments — by lowering levels of a brain protein called tau, researchers reported Tuesday.Tau is one part of a toxic duo fueling Alzheimer’s but prior attempts to develop drugs that can target the protein have failed. Two Alzheimer’s drugs, lecanemab and donanemab, try to clear buildup of the better-known amyloid protein and can modestly slow cognitive decline.The new findings suggest Biogen’s diranersen did more than lower tau levels. The study of about 400 people found signs that it also slowed…
Getty ImagesHoward Lutnick was appointed US commerce secretary by President Trump in 2025A British man has told the BBC how he unearthed evidence indicating that his former employer, Howard Lutnick – now US commerce secretary – failed to disclose a business relationship with the paedophile financier, Jeffrey Epstein.Simon Andriesz, previously a managing director at a Wall Street firm, discovered an email chain from 2018 in which Lutnick and Epstein had discussed the prospects of a start-up business they were both involved in.Andriesz shared his findings – from the millions of released Epstein files – with US politicians on the influential…
Getty ImagesScott Mills previously hosted the BBC Radio 2 breakfast showDJ Scott Mills was the highest-paid presenter at the BBC before he was sacked earlier this year, according to the corporation’s annual report.The 53-year-old was paid around £745,000 before his exit in March, when it emerged he had been accused of historical sexual offences. Mills co-operated with a police investigation and was not charged.Other top earners at the BBC included Greg James, Stephen Nolan, Laura Kuenssberg, Vernon Kay and Alan Shearer, but Gary Lineker dropped significantly after leaving two months into the financial year.The latest annual report also shows the…
Getty ImagesThe lives of NHS staff and patients were put at risk in the pandemic because of a lack of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), with almost £10bn of taxpayers money wasted in a scramble to buy more, the Covid inquiry has said.The chair Baroness Hallett described the “vast” waste in pandemic procurement, amounting to £9.9bn – two-thirds of the £14.9bn the UK and devolved governments spent on PPE.The country entered the pandemic with its stockpile of masks, gowns and gloves in a “perilous state” and was “simply not ready to compete” in the global race to secure new supplies,…
Facebook/Karovic LjubisaThe pair were returning from holiday in Thessaloniki, Serbian media reportsA woman who held the legs of her husband as he was nearly sucked head-first out of a Ryanair cabin window on Friday said “half of his body was sticking out of the plane.”Svetlana Grković, who was travelling with her husband Ljubisa Karović from Greece’s Thessaloniki to Germany’s Memmingen, told Greek public broadcaster ERT he was “outside up to his chest” for two minutes. “I immediately reacted and grabbed his legs. I thought: ‘If we die, we die together,'” Grković told Serbian outlet Nova. With the help of two…