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The Secret World of TwilightSally Coulthard Apollo (2026)“Twilight is the blazing cauldron that separates day from night,” writes Sally Coulthard in her charming natural history of dawn and dusk, when skies radiate colours, landscapes change their mood and creatures come out of the shadows. As a prolific nature writer living in a farmhouse in rural England with her gardener husband and flocks of animals, Coulthard is well qualified. Her vivid examples include a Yorkshire slang term: ‘sparrow’s fart’, meaning the near-silent moment before dawn when you might catch the faint “parps” of a waking bird.The Hidden Lives of Lab AnimalsLarry…

World championship leader Kimi Antonelli completed a Friday practice double at the Austrian Grand Prix with a dominant showing in the second session at the Red Bull Ring. Having edged his Mercedes team-mate George Russell by just four hundredths of a second in the opening session, Antonelli separated himself from the field later in the day with a time of 1:07.014s. That put the 19-year-old Italian 0.237s clear of Oscar Piastri in second place, with the Australian’s McLaren team-mate Lando Norris almost a tenth further back in third. The margin was made all the more impressive by the fact Antonelli’s…

By Enitan Abdultawab Nollywood actor Joseph Momodu has announced his enlistment into the United States Army, describing the achievement as a tribute to his late father and the culmination of months of intense physical and mental training. The actor shared the news in a heartfelt post on his official Instagram account on Friday, revealing that he completed 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, before being officially enlisted as a Specialist in the US Army. Reflecting on the journey, Momodu said the accomplishment was earned through perseverance, sacrifice and determination. “From inception, I have always believed…

For many, dressing for an extreme heatwave means wearing as little as possible. But for some men, not even record-breaking temperatures can dissuade them from pulling on their favourite pair of jeans.This week as temperatures in the UK rose sharply on the back of the climate crisis, Andy Burnham stuck to his tried and tested “cool dad” combination of dark jeans with a dark blue (not black as he pointed out to Kemi Badenoch) T-shirt as he made his way to London to be sworn in as MP for Makerfield.Jonathan Anderson takes his post-show bow in Paris on Wednesday wearing…

10 Downing Street has two things: mice and a chief mouser. For more than a decade, an officially recognized feline has kept the residence’s rodent infestation to a minimum.Over a similar period, the official residence of Canada’s prime minister has seen an unchecked explosion of rodents.Nests and vast quantities of feces were found throughout 24 Sussex, the 35-room mansion overlooking Ottawa. They took over the attic, basement and crawl spaces. Decomposing carcasses filled the walls of the decrepit building.Now, prime minister Mark Carney has announced a competition for the country’s leading architecture firms to revive the storied building “to a…

The cost of remediating the building, as well as upgrading its functionality and security, was estimated at about 38 million Canadian dollars eight years ago, a figure most everyone agrees has since risen.Since Mr. Trudeau moved into Rideau Cottage in 2015, debate has raged about the fate of 24 Sussex Drive. In 2024, former prime ministers and onetime bitter political rivals, Jean Chrétien, a Liberal, and Stephen Harper, a Conservative, volunteered to lead a private fund-raising effort to renovate it. Mr. Trudeau’s office turned them down. On Friday, however, Mr. Carney thanked his two predecessors for proposing the concept.Kim Campbell,…

ToplineJohn Bolton, a former national security adviser during President Donald Trump’s first term who later emerged as a fierce critic of him, pleaded guilty to retaining classified information Friday, a win for Trump’s Justice Department as it prosecutes perceived political foes of the president.John Bolton arrived in court Friday to enter a guilty plea. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)Getty ImagesKey FactsBolton pleaded guilty to one count of illegally retaining classified information, after prosecutors issued an 18-count indictment that accused him of keeping more than 1,000 pages of notes chronicling national security information and sharing them with his wife and daughter.Under…

Arduino’s Raspberry Pi-like microcomputer the Uno Q is joining many other devices in getting a price hike this week. The 2GB version of the Uno Q, which is powered by a Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 processor, will increase in price from $44 to $59, while the 4GB model is getting a slightly steeper increase from $59 to $79. If you’ve been eyeing the Uno Q as a cheaper alternative to Raspberry Pi’s current lineup, you have a little over a week to grab either version at the current price as the increases won’t take effect until July 6th.In a letter shared…

Miliband is now the bookmakers’ strong favourite for the number two job in British politics, with the former Labour party leader politically closer to Burnham than other rivals.Paul Johnson, former director of think-tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies, sees this closeness as a positive.”You really don’t want people in Number 10 and Number 11 having very different views,” he says.However, opinions differ on whether former Treasury adviser Miliband would receive the backing of the financial markets, which the government depends on to lend money.Nick Macpherson, the former permanent secretary at the Treasury, told the Financial Times: “The key to gaining…

Slow Gods by Claire North is the New Scientist Book Club’s read for July This is the story of the supernova event known as Lhonoja. By the end of it, several planets will have burned, a couple of civilisations will have fallen, and I will have spoken to an entity some consider a god, and whose theological status will remain in question throughout. Before then, I must explain how I came to be, and for that, I must take you back several centuries, to Glastya Row.   Glastya Row started as a landing strip on the planet Tu-mdo. Most urban…