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This half-a-billion-year-old vicious predator is the earliest known ancestor of spiders
Palaeontologists working on the Burgess Shale fossil-bearing deposit in the Canadian Rockies discovered the new species, called Mollisonia plenovenatrix
Water vapour detected in atmosphere of habitable ‘super-Earth’ planet by British astronomers
K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the solar system known to have both water and temperatures that could support life
Badger cull expanded in effort to tackle TB in cattle
The Government has granted licences for culling in 11 additional areas and reauthorises 29 existing culls across England.
This collector isn’t a few bricks short of a load with an amazing collection he has amassed in his garden shed
Mark Cranston, from Jedburgh, Scottish Borders, first started collecting bricks in 2010 after he was looking for a brick as a doorstop for his garden shed and found a white painted brick from a former colliery.
French disperse refugee camps amid warning of record Channel crossings
Border Force intercepted what is thought to be the highest number of migrants in a single day amid warnings the closure of French camps could prompt a spike in Channel crossings.
Police hunt woman snapped fleeing racist attack wearing white high heels
Cops release image of the woman as she tottered along the railway platform after a man was attacked
17-year-old is seventh teenager to be murdered in London in a month after being stabbed to death in broad daylight
The victim, who has not been named, was repeatedly knifed in a frenzied street attack yesterday lunchtime on Edgware Road.
Benjamin Netanyahu pledges to annex West Bank settlements if he wins poll
The Israeli prime minister made his pitch to nationalist voters.
UK jobs market ‘losing its shine’, warn economists
A slowdown in employment and falling vacancies raise concerns, according to some economists.