Leonids Meteor Shower: When and How to Watch Its Peak
The event produces some of the year’s fastest meteors, although the nearly full moon may make them challenging to spot.
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Can These Ex-Hollywood Chimps Find a Place Among the Apes?
Behind the scenes at a Chicago zoo, chimpanzees who spent years entertaining humans are learning to befriend their own kind.
Experience: I’ve been to every country in the world
There have been many highlights. In a group of islands off Norway, I saw a total solar eclipse, which was surreal I’ve always been adventurous. That’s why, in 2013, I set myself a goal to travel to every country in the world. I grew up in Louisiana, and my family went on road trips across the…
‘It felt wild and mystical’: readers’ favourite remote spots in Europe
Our tipsters have found solitude in glorious mountains, islands and coastlines from the Highlands to the Aegean Davaar island, off the Kintyre peninsula in south-west Scotland, is a true getaway: it is connected to the mainland by a shingle causeway, which is only possible to cross when the tide is low. There are a few…
‘Blame Mike’ – absurdity and appeal of Tyson v Paul
BBC Sport looks at the absurdity and appeal of 58-year-old Mike Tyson’s fight with Jake Paul in Texas on Friday.
US hacker sentenced over Bitcoin heist worth billions
Ilya Lichtenstein laundered the stolen cryptocurrency with his wife Heather Morgan aka Razzlekhan.
Trump picks vaccine sceptic RFK Jr for health secretary
Robert F Kennedy Jr has a history of spreading health information scientists say is false.
Trump’s pledge to axe the Department of Education explained
In order to scrap the agency, the incoming Republican president would need congressional approval.
Five takeaways from Trump’s first week as president-elect
He has made his early priorities clear – and stunned some in Washington and around the world while doing so.
NASA Says Astronaut Suni Williams Is in ‘Incredible Health’
The agency’s top medical official was responding to rumors that Suni Williams had lost an unusual amount of weight during an extended stay in orbit.