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The oldest definitive animal fossils date to around 574 million years ago, just before the dramatic diversification associated with the Cambrian Period. The animal kingdom may have started its journey on a much earlier Earth than scientists once thought. Long before recognisable creatures appeared in the fossil record, and perhaps before the planet was plunged…

Mecca Joint Defence Agreement is built on on a 2025 Saudi-Pakistani pact under which Pakistan had sent about 8,000 troops to the kingdom by May (Photo: Agencies). Pakistan defence forces chief Asim Munir agreed to quickly deploy more Pakistani troops to Saudi Arabia, despite the Pakistani Parliament voting to stay out of the Houthi conflict…

Image: Stamford advocate(left) John Reznikoff has built one of the world’s strangest historical collections: hair from some of the most famous people in history. The Connecticut-based collector and authenticator holds the Guinness World Records title for the largest collection of hair from historical figures. When he received the record in 2001, his collection contained hair…

Kingstown Road and Scotland Road form one of the main routes into Carlisle, and by autumn 2017 they had a new skin. Some of the bitumen holding the asphalt together had been replaced with pellets made from waste plastic.Cumbria, an area in England, wanted to make roads the better way. Roads that are environmentally friendly….

File photo: Iran will never have nuclear weapon, says US Secretary of State Rubio US secretary of state Marco Rubio said Wednesday that Iran will never be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon under US president Donald Trump, as Washington pushes Tehran to make a substantial reduction in its nuclear enrichment capacity as part of…

Isaias set to strengthen into a hurricane before hitting the US Gulf Coast Tropical Storm Isaias formed Wednesday (local time) off eastern Mexico and was forecast to rapidly strengthen into the Atlantic season’s first hurricane before reaching the US Gulf Coast later this week, with landfall possible as early as Friday evening.The storm was packing…

The massive Beverly Hills mansion that was once owned by Michael Caine and Ricky Martin has found a buyer after being listed for four months. The deal for the Benedict Canyon estate was closed for $35 million after a huge discount, according to a report by Realtor.com. The buyer has not been identified. Carl Gambino…

File photo: Maricarmen Abascal, after she was evicted from the Madrid home where she had lived for more than seven decades María del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her longtime Madrid home triggered nationwide protests and intensified Spain’s housing crisis, died on Wednesday while in hospital.Widely known as “Maricarmen”, Abascal had lived…

Image: Avocado Tree & Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side (2009)​ In 2007, Sandra Bullock paid $2.725 million for 91 acres of rolling land in the hills of Valley Center, a rural community northeast of San Diego. Over the next decade, she renovated the adobe ranch house, added a guest cottage and barn, and planted…