At least one famous species of extinct Ice Age megafauna was present in Maine at one point: the wooly mammoth.
This was the amazing moment that wild deer were spotted playing on the streets of a Sheffield city estate. The beautiful animals surprised onlookers by turning up on the street at Parson Cross early this morning, just as residents on the estate were waking up. The video was filmed by a Star reader, called Dan, on Wheata Road. It shows one of the deer appear to come out from a gateway outside a property on the street, and onto the pavement, before speeding up and galloping off along the footway....
Assets held by fund manager State Street are higher than the GDP of Germany. BlackRock, Fidelity, State Street and Vanguard control $26 trillion in assets. Asset managers grew after banks were regulated following the financial crisis
For more than 1 million Afghans who fled war and poverty to Pakistan, these are uncertain times
Millions of Afghans made Pakistan home to escape war. Now many are hiding to escape deportation
By RIAZAT BUTT and ADIL JAWAD Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Born and raised in Pakistan to parents who fled neighboring Afghanistan half a century ago, an 18-year-old found himself at the mercy of police in Karachi who took his cash, phone and motorbike, and sent him to a deportation center. Scared and bewildered,
Neighbours have described seeing smoke billowing through the front door of an adjoining house and fearing for their own safety after an overnight house fire which resulted in two people being taken to hospital. Emergency services were called to a terraced house on Cambria Street in South Hylton, Sunderland, at around 9.35pm last night. Admin worker Kiera Jordan, 26, who lives just two doors from the the fire damaged property, said: “I was in the bath last night at around 9pm when I saw flashing...
This is an edition of the newsletter Pulling Weeds With Chris Black, in which the columnist weighs in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. When was the last time you heard something truly original? For me, it was 2002. I was a budding Anglophile in my early 20s, reading NME weekly. I hadn’t made it past classic Britpop like Oasis and Blur or the indies of the moment like The Libertines and Cornershop for many reasons. When The Streets’ classic debut...
Breaking free of frustrating financial patterns, such as overspending or struggling to pay off debt, is possible with these methods.
Breaking free of frustrating financial patterns, such as overspending or struggling to pay off debt, is possible with these methods.
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This artist’s rendition shows woolly mammoths in northern Spain. These animals lived in Europe and North America during the last glacial period, around 21,000 years ago. A new study used updated climate maps from that period, when atmospheric carbon dioxide was lower, to better predict future warming under rising CO2.