Children are unlikely to fall seriously ill with coronavirus, another study shows 

Children are unlikely to fall seriously ill with coronavirus and the risk of them dying from the disease is ‘very low’, another study has confirmed. Researchers from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London looked at more than 582 children aged three and above who were diagnosed with Covid-19 across Europe during the height of the crisis … Read more

Justin Bieber suing two Twitter users for defamation over ‘malicious’ accusations of sexual assault

Justin Bieber suing two Twitter users for defamation over ‘malicious’ and ‘outrageous’ accusations of sexual assault He’s seeking $20 million in damages, $10 million for each story The accounts are in the names Danielle and Kadi Danielle alleged she was sexually assaulted by the singer in 2014 in Austin, Texas Kadi claimed she was a … Read more

Google to release data from project that allows researchers to map air quality block-to-block

Google to release data from pollution project that allows researchers to map air quality on a block-to-block basis Google will release data on a pollution mapping project The data was taken using sensors from pollution mapping company, Aclima It gives insight into air quality on a street-by-street basis Data could help set future policy and … Read more

UK Weather: Roads melt and London ‘runs out of water’

Roads melted and London anticipated water shortages today as temperatures soared to 92F on the hottest day of the year so far – while forecasters warned of severe thunderstorms across much of the UK.   Sweltering 92F (33.3C) temperatures were recorded in southern England this afternoon, surpassing the 90.7F (32.6C) highs experienced in London on Wednesday. … Read more

A mother’s obesity may raise liver cancer risks for generations to come, mouse study suggests 

A mother’s obesity may raise liver cancer risks for generations to come, mouse study suggests Researchers fed mice a high-fat diet so they would become obese and then exposed them to a liver carcinogen The diet led to an over-expression of a gene that is abnormally expressed in various types of cancer This increased odds of the … Read more

Tending and growing plants has always proved to be therapeutic for a troubled mind 

BOOK OF THE WEEK THE WELL-GARDENED MIND   by Sue Stuart-Smith (William Collins £20, 352pp) Back in 1915 Alexander Douglas Gillespie, an officer with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, wrote a letter home from the battlefields of Northern France. He told how ‘a big shell suddenly swooped down from nowhere into the trench, killing five and … Read more

Animal Crossing: Cath Kidston prints now available to use within the Nintendo Switch game

Animal Crossing: Cath Kidston prints are now available to use on the bestselling Nintendo Switch game By Corinna Burton For Mailonline Published: 22:50 BST, 25 June 2020 | Updated: 22:51 BST, 25 June 2020 Since its worldwide release on March 20 2020, Animal Crossing: New Horizons  quickly became one of the fastest selling games of … Read more