JD Vance was “blown away” by Caernarfon Castle during a visit with his wife to North Wales, the US vice-president has revealed in a new book about his faith. “It’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen and it’s not particularly close,” Vance writes of his 2013 visit to the 13th-century castle, a UNESCO World Heritage
IQAir, a company that tracks global air quality, ranked Detroit, Toronto and Minneapolis as the cities with the worst air quality currently in the world. Smoke from wildfires is dangerous to humans because it contains a mixture of very small polluting particles such as PM2.5 and nitrogen dioxide. “These particles, when they get into our
A shirt worn by Pelé during the 1958 World Cup final sold for $4.9 million (£3.6 million) at a Sotheby’s auction in New York. It is the second most valuable football shirt sold behind the Argentina shirt worn by Diego Maradona when he scored the ‘Hand of God’ goal against England in the 1986 World
When Sarah Reeve got engaged, she gave her fiancé Lee an ultimatum: he had to pay his debt before she married him. “I was paying my mortgage and my bills while he was giving his mother some rent,” Sarah says of their situations when they met in their early 20s. “I told him I wouldn’t
The Philippines has condemned the “dehumanizing and racist” depiction of the country as a timid monkey being forced to confront Beijing by the United States and Japan. over the South China Sea. Last week, China Daily published an AI-generated video featuring a monkey wearing a Filipino t-shirt. He screams as arms carrying the Japanese and
US fast food chain Taco Bell is removing lettuce from its menu in some states after investigations found it could be linked to an outbreak of explosive diarrhea caused by a parasite. The decision was made “out of an abundance of caution” after discussions with health officials, Taco Bell told the BBC. The Centers for
