Naomi Osaka has broken her social media silence to publicise a glossy new photo shoot in Vogue Japan amid her press blackout. The tennis star, 23, shared the cover of the fashion magazine and a number of the glamorous snaps which are featured in its August issue in an Instagram post on Monday. The four-time … Read more
The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft is launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on June 17, 2021 in Jiuquan, Gansu Province of China, carried on the Long March-2F rocket, to Chinese Tiangong space station July 19, 1964: China took its first official step into space, launching and recovering an experimental biological rocket carrying white mice. April 24, … Read more
One of Britain’s top schools whose star-studded alumni includes Winston Churchill and Benedict Cumberbatch is set to open a campus in Japan. Harrow School plans to open its first Japanese branch on the north-eastern coast of Honshu, the country’s main island, in August next year. The Harrow International School Appi Japan (Harrow Appi) will host … Read more
Judy Murray has sympathised with Naomi Osaka after the world No 2 withdrew from the French Open having been threatened with expulsion for not speaking to the media. The 23-year-old from Japan said last week she didn’t want to take part in press conferences at Roland Garros to ‘protect her mental health’. She received a … Read more
Ministers will unveil plans ‘within weeks’ for the UK to join trans-Pacific trading club including Australia, Canada and Japan Liz Truss says plans to join trans-Pacific trading group unveiled ‘within weeks’ The CPTPP has formally agreed to start accession negotiation with the UK The free trade area includes Australia, Canada, Japan and New Zealand By … Read more
Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the Moon in Greek mythology. NASA has chosen her to personify its path back to the Moon, which will see astronauts return to the lunar surface by 2024 – including the first woman and the next man. Artemis 1, formerly Exploration Mission-1, is the first … Read more
Excuse the mess! Scientists turn food scraps like banana peels, seaweed and cabbage leaves into construction materials that are ‘at least as strong as concrete’ Researchers in Japan created a way to turn food waste, such as banana peels or cabbage leaves into building products for construction They used a ‘heat pressing’ concept that turns … Read more
Americans drink 109 bottles of wine or 366 pints of beer every year – and has the fourth highest alcohol dependence rate in the world, report claims… so, take our quiz to find out if YOU drink too much OECD report claims Americans are the 21st biggest drinkers in the world behind most of Europe’s … Read more
Britons drink 120 bottles of wine or 400 pints every year on average but consume less alcohol than the French, Germans and Spaniards, data revealed today. An Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report has called on governments around the world to do more to tackle binge drinking. It claims each Briton drinks roughly … Read more
Japanese researchers develop super compact toilet paper where a single roll is 980ft long – THREE TIMES the height of the Statue of Liberty A Japanese team of researchers developed the 300 metre (980ft) single-ply They say just two rolls can provide as much toilet paper as a standard 12 roll pack No information on … Read more