Researchers explore whether the animals adapt their behaviour in response to people’s happiness, sadness or anger They are known for living in packs and being sociable animals. Now meerkats are being investigated to see if they can also pick up on human emotions. Researchers and psychologists from Nottingham Trent University are studying meerkats in zoos […]
Much-delayed £38.6m project brings works from 1800 to 1945 together for the first time as single collection A suite of new galleries built to present work by many of Scotland’s most famous artists, including the Glasgow Boys, Phoebe Anna Traquair and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, opens to the public this week. For the first time, the […]
Thousands of women who have been underpaid by up to £11,000 a year set to launch claim, GMB union says Sheffield city council is to become the latest local authority to face a mass equal pay claim from women who have been underpaid by up to £11,000 a year, the GMB union has said. Thousands […]
Country needs successful firms to grow and struggling ones to shrink, says Resolution Foundation The UK needs more businesses to fail, or at least shrink, to solve the economy’s long-running productivity crisis, a study has argued. The country’s lack of “economic dynamism”, whereby weaker firms or lower productivity sectors shrink, and more productive ones grow, […]
Russian forces repelled near Bakhmut after counterattacks on two villages recently retaken by Ukraine; air raid alerts in all Ukrainian regions. See all our Ukraine coverage Air raid alerts were sounding in all Ukrainian regions on Sunday evening. The alerts were called at 12.30am local time on Sunday with the air force warning of incoming […]
Emergency services say 14 people were rescued at the facility on Mangan Street, Balwyn, on Sunday night Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Firefighters have rescued residents who were trapped inside a burning care facility in Melbourne’s east, with […]
Former US president, who has been in ill health for several years, is set to turn 99 on 1 October Former president Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, have made a surprise appearance at a peanut festival in their Georgia home town, the Carter Center wrote in a social media post on X, formerly known […]
Police say 56-year-old charged over the alleged assault on Natasha Fyles at a Darwin market Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A woman has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly pushing a cream-covered crepe into the face of […]
National leader ends long-running question over whether party is prepared to work with Winston Peters After months of prevarication, National leader Christopher Luxon has said he will pursue a coalition with Winston Peters’ New Zealand First after the October election, but only as a last resort. Luxon even left open the prospect of a sensational […]
Hollywood production has been halted for months as actors and writers have been on strike. Now, the writers are headed back to work. Actors represented by SAG-AFTRA remain on strike. (Image credit: Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)