Just over a week before the snap election that Theresa May called buoyed by a massive lead in the polls, YouGov's first seat by seat projection of the campaign suggests that the Tories will now fall 16 seats short of an overall majority. This would be a shocking result - especially as Theresa May's u-turn on calling a snap election she previously insisted would not be in the nation's best interest was in the name of giving her an even bigger parliamentary mandate before...

By Michael McNulty Location, location, location! Here are five films in which the city plays an integral part. 25th Hour – New York City, New York Monty Brogan, a midlevel drug dealer, spends his final hours before beginning a seven year prison sentence for possession and dealing, with his with his girlfriend and friends. This is as much a film about loyalty, betrayal, missed opportunity and consequences as it is a film about New York. New York is familiar territory...

Mars was covered in water far longer than previously thought, meaning life could have been there more recently, according to scientists. Lighter-toned bedrock that surrounds cracks and fissures in the surface suggests the red planet had liquid longer much longer than previously thought - because it left behind halo-like rings of silica. The new finding is reported in a paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. Jens Frydenvang, a scientist at Los Alamos...

Huddersfield Town have rewarded loyal fans by putting some season tickets on sale for just £100. The Terriers were promoted after a tense play off final with Reading which went to penalties after neither side could score in regulation time. The promotion means Town will be playing top flight football for the first time since 1972, with the country's top clubs now set to visit West Yorkshire from the start of the 2017/18 season. But despite the increase in attractive fixtures...

Holy Boy is the new project from Norwegian-born, LA based, Helene Alexandra Jaeger, who has had support from the likes of The AV Club, The Sunday Times and The 405, under previous outfit ‘Her Royal Harness’. Recorded and produced with the acclaimed Ben Hillier (The Horrors, Depeche Mode, Blur) at The Pool Studios in London 2016, her new EP is an ominous, metaphysical arrangement out June 9th via Native Habitat. The first single to be released from it is the dark, brooding...

Millions of Brits are fulfilling their travel aspirations through friend’s and family’s posts on Facebook, according to new research. Four in ten UK adults admit they are ‘social tourists’ - experiencing an average of 14 countries through friend’s and family’s social media updates every year. However the typical respondent has visited just nine countries in reality – although over two thirds have been inspired to travel more widely after seeing social media posts. While around a fifth of people admit...

The Amazon rainforest has been given fresh hope after British scientists found it is much more resilient than previously feared. It constitutes more than half of the planet's remaining rainforest, with its 2.4 million square miles the most species rich tract of land. Storing about half of the global tropical forest carbon, large losses could make climate change worse. Logging can leave it fragmented and punch holes in the canopy, drying out the vegetation below. This, combined with the effects...

Hardly cutting edge: this is the bizarre way a female tribal 'doctor' treats patients in India - with a four foot-long SWORD. The charlatan, who goes by the name Phuleshwari, uses the tip of the blade to put pressure on different parts of the body, including the eyes. These graphic pictures show her inserting the point right into the eye socket of a woman - without drawing blood. Crowds flock to see the sword woman who practices on Mondays and...

Digital money is here to stay and stakeholders are working hard to propel the transition from cash to electronic transactions. The rapid proliferation of smartphones and social messaging services has served as a powerful driver for the growth of the digital economy. More so, there's a remarkable growth in the Fintech world as innovators try to create digital solutions for financial services. A market report from MasterCard shows that digital money accounted for about 45% of monetary transaction in the...