The sea of floral tributes left in London's parks for Queen Elizabeth II will be composted and re-used on planting projects, the city's Royal Parks said Tuesday.. The compost will be used on landscaping projects and shrubberies across the parks.
Fiona strengthened into a powerful Category Three hurricane on Tuesday as it headed toward the Turks and Caicos islands after leaving two dead and triggering major flooding and blackouts in the Caribbean.. "Heavy rains around the center of Fiona impacts the Turks and Caicos through this afternoon with continued life-threatening flooding," the NHC said in an advisory, adding that the storm was expected to pass near the island chain within hours.
Israeli archaeologists said Tuesday they had discovered opium residue in 3,500-year-old pottery pieces, providing evidence to support the theory that the hallucinogenic drug was used in ancient burial rituals.. Researchers found pottery vessels at the site that resembled poppy flowers -- from which opium is derived -- dating back to the 14th century BC. They then examined whether they had served as containers for the drug, which earlier writing had suggested was used in burial rituals in Canaan, and found "opium residue in eight vessels", the researchers said in a statement.
The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in central Africa in 1976.. On Tuesday, Uganda announced its first Ebola fatality since 2019 in an outbreak in the central district of Mubende.
Silver screens lit up in Indian-administered Kashmir for the first time in a generation at the opening of a new cinema on Tuesday, decades after an armed rebellion shuttered local movie halls.. "We are bringing back a lost era," he said at a ceremony and screening marking the movie house's opening in the city of Srinagar.
SpaceX will apply for an exemption from US sanctions against Iran in a bid to offer its satellite internet service to the country, owner Elon Musk said on Monday.. "Starlink will apply for an exemption from sanctions against Iran," Musk said in response to a tweet from a science reporter.
It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where -- with its twin river the Euphrates -- it made Mesopotamia a cradle of civilisation thousands of years ago.
It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where -- with its twin river the Euphrates -- it made Mesopotamia a cradle of civilisation thousands of years ago.
Two people were confirmed dead and another two were found "without vital signs" after Typhoon Nanmadol slammed into Japan over the weekend, a government spokesman said Tuesday.. Government spokesman Hirozaku Matsuno said another two people had been found "without vital signs," a term often used in Japan before a death has been officially certified by a coroner.
On Sutton Page's ravaged cotton fields, there is almost nothing left to pick.. This year, his harvest is "not well," he says, but in reality, the drought in northern Texas has proven to be a disaster, with most of Page's neighbors not even bothering to harvest their crop, leaving "bare, bare fields."
