Stolen Degas painting Les Choristes found on a bus
A Degas painting stolen from a Marseille museum in 2009 has been found on a bus near Paris. The French culture minister, Françoise Nyssen, said authorities discovered the artwork in […]
Author: Elise Weatherall
Florida survivors to march on Washington
Young survivors of Wednesday’s school shooting in Florida have announced a national march on Washington to demand political action on gun control. Student organisers told US media that they were […]
Winter Olympics: Fans leap to Nathan Chen’s defence
US figure skater Nathan Chen was tipped to win figure skating gold at Pyeongchang. He’d just won the US national figure skating championship for the second year in a row […]
Winter Olympics: Yuri On Ice performed by Japanese skaters
Team Japan have delighted anime fans by performing a figure skating routine set to music from the popular Yuri On Ice animated series at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Footage […]
Sprawling Maya network discovered under Guatemala jungle
Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Maya ruins in Guatemala in a major archaeological breakthrough. Laser technology was used to survey digitally beneath the forest canopy, revealing houses, palaces, […]
Doctor shares dying children’s wishes: ‘Be kind and eat ice cream’
When a palliative paediatrician in South Africa saw too many negative stories appear on his Twitter feed, he decided to share some positive, inspiring thoughts of the terminally ill children […]
USA Gymnastics board ordered to quit over Larry Nassar abuse
The US Olympic Committee (USOC) has ordered the entire USA Gymnastics (USAG) board to resign by 31 January or lose status as a sports governing body. USOC outlined steps the […]
Hope for threatened ‘little tiger cat’
It’s the smallest cat in the Americas, occupying the smallest area of land. Listed as vulnerable to extinction, the güiña wildcat of Chile has lost much of its natural home […]
US OKs 1st drug aimed at women with inherited breast cancer
U.S. regulators have approved the first drug aimed at women with advanced breast cancers caused by?an inherited flawed gene. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved AstraZeneca PLC’s Lynparza […]
Coral reefs head for ‘knock-out punch’
Repeat bouts of warmer seawater are posing a significant challenge to the world’s tropical corals. A study of 100 reefs, published in Science Magazine, shows the interval between bleaching events in […]