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With the powerful theme ‘Stronger Together – Collaboration, Innovation & Impact in the UK Charity Sector’, the conference promises to be one of the most energising and future-focused events on the charity calendar.

UK to launch safety study into DIY ‘plug-in’ systems such as Germany’s Balkonkraftwerk as part of plan to triple solar capacity by 2030

Becky Harrison, who is registered blind, aims to cross five counties using her disability bus pass.

Violent porn showing choking and strangulation will be made illegal through the Crime and Policing Bill, the government has announced

Tomasz Zareba reversed his lorry up to the building to allow a man who was trapped to jump to safety onto the roof.

The Reverend Matthew Simpkins says the disease has not shown up on his last five scans.

One of the leaders of Belarus’s opposition movement, Syarhei Tsikhanouski, has been released from jail after being pardoned after almost five years behind bars.

French car brand improves road safety in rural France by upgrading outdated speed bumps with branded replacements

The cat, called Dusty, travelled over land and sea from the Isle of Man to Tavistock in Devon.

There are no written Soviet records, no logs, no official drilling reports, and no confirmation that they'd lit it intentionally – but there's no disputing a ~100-foot (~30-m) deep, 226-foot (69-m) wide pit of relentless fiery fury that's been burning for around 50 years in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan.

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The title of a 2,000-year-old Greek philosophical text has been read by computer scientists using AI to study scrolls buried by the eruption of Vesuvius.

The latest data, for the first quarter of 2025, shows that China’s CO2 emissions have now been stable or falling for more than a year, as shown in the figure below.

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A local animal rescue centre says they were in the central reservation with their dying mother.

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Great for environment but also bees are adorable

Just one spin of one of the rotors can generate enough electricity to power four households for an entire day.

Amidst the dry and arid city of Bharuch in Gujarat, there exists a remarkable house that defies the norm of blasting coolers and air conditioners to beat the heat. Unlike most households, this unique abode manages to remain comfortably cool without any of these devices.

The first clinical trial to test whether adults with peanut allergies can be desensitized has shown great success—with two-thirds of participants able to consume the equivalent of five peanuts at the end of the study without reacting.

The wood turtle came to live at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax last September.

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They've spent decades in jail for a crime with an unjust sentence. Now they could be free

In trials, in 708 women, when combined with hormone therapy, the drug doubled the time the cancer took to grow, from 3.6 months to 7.3 months, and shrank tumours in 23% of patients.

An unreleased song by the late Taiwanese pop singer Teresa Teng, who took East Asia by storm from the 1970s to 1990s, has been discovered in Japan and will be released in June, a source familiar with the matter said Thursday.

To date, 5,282 hens have been distributed to residents, and not only have the residents received a plentiful supply of free eggs, but food waste has also been averted from landfill as chickens are fed kitchen scraps which would otherwise be thrown away.