"A complete digital edition of William Jardine's 40-volume series on natural history published 1833–1843, including more than 1,300 restored hand-drawn illustrations of birds, mammals, insects, and fish." Digitally recreated by Nicholas Rougeux. The descriptions and nomenclature are dated, and in some cases offensive. Some of the illustrations are quirky but still beautifully rendered.
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Culture secretary Lisa Nandy is among first viewers as epic embroidery is unpacked at British Museum, a landmark in Anglo-French diplomacy
In the decade after Brexit, the relationship between Britain and France has been defined by rows over fishing rights, Channel crossings and trade. Boris Johnson even mocked Emmanuel Macron, telling his French counterpart to “donnez-moi un break”.
This week, that fractious chapter gave way to one of the most significant acts of cultural diplomacy between the two countries in decades. Almost 1,000 years after it was created, the Bayeux tapestry arrived at the British Museum, transported from France under cover of darkness, the culmination of years of painstaking negotiations between London and Paris.
Continue reading...One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice
People always suspected big tech was greedy, but not quite like this. Patrons of Amazon Web Services have been landed with panic-inducing monthly bills running as high as $1.5tn for subscriptions that usually cost less than the price of a cup of coffee.
From Bangalore to Bolsover, the bills have been causing alarm after a computer glitch resulted in the astronomical invoices being dispatched around the world by Jeff Bezos’s company, which provides data and cloud services to millions of customers, from students and small charities to big businesses.
Continue reading...Shift in pecking order illustrates that investors are reassessing outlook for artificial intelligence
Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable company, reshuffling the top ranks of tech heavyweights as investors reassess the outlook for artificial intelligence.
Apple was last valued at $4.88tn as its shares held steady, while Nvidia was roughly at $4.86tn, after a 3.5% decline.
Continue reading...UK police adviser in the early 2000s and global consultant in ‘no-body’ homicide cases says he has narrowed down the outback search area
The former British government expert who consulted on the search for the remains of the murdered backpacker Peter Falconio says he has now identified a “most likely” potential burial location – an abandoned racetrack only 8km from the scene of the infamous outback attack at Barrow Creek.
In July 2001, Falconio and his partner, Joanne Lees, both from Yorkshire, were ambushed and attacked by Bradley John Murdoch as they drove along a remote stretch of road in Australia’s Northern Territory, about 300km north of Alice Springs.
Continue reading...A tournament with more teams and more games has been filled with euphoria, heartbreak, and these weird and wonderful viral moments
As a Japanese supporter exclaimed to a television camera, “Texas is good, everything is big”, we knew the World Cup had started. In those early euphoric moments, seeing the palpable joy when everything is still possible, it seemed Japan fans were the MVPs of memes.
They came in their thousands, dressed in sombreros and Mario outfits, tossed into the air like confetti and line dancing with the Dutch. Then the heartbreak arrived.
Continue reading...Dying is difficult, a nurse told me. It might have been even more appalling had Dad not been clear about his wishes. Yet most of us remain deeply reluctant to outline how we want the end to go
My father spent the last 12 days of his life unconscious, unresponsive, in a hospital bed on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
My mother sat beside him night and day, holding his hand. I massaged Dad’s legs, horribly swollen, the effects of oedema – a buildup of fluids. His mouth fell open, dried out; I swabbed it constantly in an attempt to keep it wet. Sometimes his breath was a gurgle. My brother and I took turns sleeping on a stretcher in his room – the “dying room” was what hospital staff called it.
Continue reading...Two minutes and 55 seconds. That’s how long I really had hope of reaching the World Cup final. And it didn’t kill me
In her book Hope in the Dark the author Rebecca Solnit examines if it is possible to have hope when you consider all of human suffering. She quotes the Bulgarian writer Maria Popova: “Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naivety.” By all accounts it is a compelling argument for hope as a catalyst for social change.
Meanwhile, Graham Burrell wrote: “It is the hope that kills you” following Lincoln City’s 2-1 home defeat to Wigan in 2024. “I feel perhaps our playoff push was finally killed off yesterday.”
Continue reading...Kiran Kaur, 53, sentenced to three years for assisting Vickrum Digwa after he stabbed student in Southampton
The mother of Vickrum Digwa, the murderer whose false claims of racism against his victim, Henry Nowak, triggered riots in Southampton, has been jailed for removing a knife from the scene of the killing.
Appearing at Southampton crown court, Kiran Kaur, 53, was jailed for three years for assisting an offender by taking the knife from where her son had murdered Nowak on 3 December 2025 back to her family home.
Continue reading...Leaked US intelligence report concluded Iran retained 70% of missiles and launchers after 38-day spring campaign
Iran and the US have been trading blows for six consecutive nights and there are no shortage of signs that the renewed fighting will worsen further. Tehran and Washington remain far apart diplomatically, and though the US retains a significant military overmatch, Iran has more than enough capability to inflict damage.
Friday’s developments are a case in point. A wave of US attacks, with missiles launched from jets, drones and warships, targeted Iranian ports and the south of the country, collapsing a tower at Chabahar, on the Gulf of Oman, and highways and bridges into the strait of Hormuz port of Bandar Abbas, perhaps in an effort to cut it off.
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Negentien regionale NVM-afdelingen kwamen in verzet tegen de nieuwe tarieven van woningplatform Funda. Na een goed gesprek lijkt de kwestie voorlopig gesust, al mogen de NVM-leden zich nog uitspreken.
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Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:
This row of residences is an excellent example of 1870-80s attached dwellings. The corner cottage (number 18) was converted from a former shop. The row retains important stylistic elements including of bluestone masonry walls with lined coursing, brick window and door trims and quoins (now painted) and simple chimneys. The pitched corrugated iron roof extends along the row. The cottages also retain timber framed windows, squat brick chimneys (except for number 36 (the end cottage) which has a very tall brick chimney), and eaves brackets (except for number which 28 has had these
removed). Cottage nos. 20-24 retain verandahs and the remainder have had the verandah removed.
Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:
1880s symmetrical cottage that has been partially demolished. Looks like there are plans to renovate the property.
Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:
This row of residences is an excellent example of 1870-80s attached dwellings. The corner cottage (number 18) was converted from a former shop. The row retains important stylistic elements including
of bluestone masonry walls with lined coursing, brick window and door trims and quoins (now painted) and simple chimneys. The pitched corrugated iron roof extends along the row. The cottages also retain timber framed windows, squat brick chimneys (except for number 36 (the end cottage) which has a very tall brick chimney), and eaves brackets (except for number which 28 has had these
removed). Cottage nos. 20-24 retain verandahs and the remainder have had the verandah removed.
Treinreizigers kunnen dit weekend niet reizen tussen Rotterdam Centraal en Gouda door werkzaamheden aan het spoor. Op de weg wordt gewerkt aan de A27 naar Gorinchem en de N3. Beide wegen zijn voor langere tijd afgesloten. De Algerabrug (N210) gaat voor vier nachten dicht.
Nou ja knoop dit maar in uw oren als Femke Halsema straks weer een of ander jankverhaal houdt over vrouwenhaat of krokodillentranen plengt als er een vrouw kapot is aangerand. De VVD wil cameratoezicht rond de Amsterdamse Sloterplas in Nieuw-West, waar Maro... Belgische mannen het vrouwen onmogelijk maken een rondje hard te lopen of gewoon maar te chillen zonder meteen kapotgesist, geïntimideerd, betast, aangerand of zelfs verkracht te worden. Halsema, die zelf nog nooit in Nieuw-West is geweest en zéker niet alleen en zéker niet na 22.00 uur 's avonds en zéker niet met een kort rokje aan, vindt dat niet nodig: "De incidenten vinden verspreid plaats over een dusdanig groot gebied rondom de Sloterplas dat het plaatsen van camera’s volgens de politie en het stadsdeel nauwelijks effectief zou zijn", schrijft zij. Moeders houd uw dochters binnen, want Femke Halsema doet in ieder geval NIKS voor ze.
KEULEN (ANP/DPA/AFP) - Frankrijk en Duitsland gaan nog meer samenwerken op het gebied van defensie. Dat is de conclusie na topoverleg tussen de twee landen bij Keulen. Zo kondigde de Duitse bondskanselier Friedrich Merz aan dat zijn land later dit jaar mee zal doen aan een Franse nucleaire oefening.
De landen probeerden de afgelopen tijd een nieuw gevechtsvliegtuig te bouwen, ook wel het FCAS-project genoemd. Dat mislukte, omdat ze het niet eens werden over hoe het vliegtuig eruit moest komen te zien.
Merz zei in een gezamenlijke persconferentie met de Franse president Emmanuel Macron dat de landen wel doorgaan met het verder ontwikkelen van de technieken die de gevechtsvliegtuigen hadden moeten gebruiken. "Misschien zijn de cloudomgeving en het complete besturingssysteem op de lange termijn wel veel belangrijker dan een nieuw vliegtuig", aldus Merz.