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This is the once-in-a-lifetime moment a British swimmer caught on camera a 2,000-strong shoal of rare migrating RAYS. Conservationist Jay Gittens, 44, initially thought the enormous 'shadow' below the surface was a whale shark or humpback whale. Amazed Jay slipped into the water off La Paz, Mexico, and freedived with the enormous group of Pacific cownose rays. While the eagle rays are not endangered, it is very rare to capture such a large group moving together. Quick-thinking Ray from London...

“If we descend into a UKIP-generated xenophobic campaign, it weakens and demeans all of us and our society, and we are all the losers for that."

Aid workers in Syria say the situation for the families in the camps is "tragic" with serious doubts cast over the effectiveness of US-led strikes in ending the conflict in the region. According to workers in Northern Syria, who have been talking to families who have fled the country’s war zones, the scale of the task facing aid workers in Syria is daunting. Disaster relief agency ShelterBox and its partners have mounted their longest and largest aid programme ever – helping...

Dogs could be used to study obesity in humans after it was discovered that their gut harbours similar genetic material. Researchers found that the gene content of the dog microbiome showed many similarities to humans and was more similar to ours than the microbiome of pigs or mice. This microbiome, the combined genetic material of the microorganisms, have more similar genes and responses to diet in humans and dogs than established before. Dr Luis Pedro Coelho and colleagues from the...

Shipyards in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, South Korea and Spain now eyeing up critical defence contract, GMB investigation reveals GMB, the union for shipbuilding workers, today said in the aftermath of the blue passports fiasco, Ministers must reverse their decision to put a crucial £1 billion order for three new military support ships out to non-UK bidders. New Fleet Solid Support ships are needed to service the UK’s £6.3 billion Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers and their strikeforce of new...

Frank Cochran, 60, used a Taser to terrify his victim who was left an emotional wreck after years of abuse

The origins of dinosaurs lie in a massive meteorite strike which gave them a chance of survival, according to a new study. It is commonly understood that the dinosaurs disappeared with a bang - wiped out by a great meteorite impact on the Earth 66 million years ago. But researchers now think a meteorite strike around 245 million years ago near the end of a massextinction allowed for a boom in dinosaur numbers. In the paper, published in journal Nature...

A hospital trust has been accused of wasting taxpayers' cash after splashing out thousands of pounds on changing the colour of staff uniforms from blue to BROWN. Dudley Group NHS Trust has changed 675 outfits for clinical support workers and ward clerks to a new "biscuit" colour to make staff more "easily recognised". But the controversial move has been slammed by taxpayers as well as their own members of staff working at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, West Mids. Critics...

Pollution is harming almost every person on the planet a worrying report has revealed. Over 95 per cent of the world’s population are breathing unsafe air. Asia and Africa are the areas where people are suffering from the worst levels of toxic air. The report, known as the State of Global Air and produced by the Health Effects Institute, calculated the percentage of the world’s people that are exposed to air polluted at larger levels that the World Health Organisation deems as...