A geography professor at a leading British university has described the study of rocks and the natural world as racist and linked the academic field to ‘white supremacy’. Kathryn Yusoff, who lectures at the prestigious Queen Mary University of London, said that the geology as a subject was ‘riven by systematic racism’ and influenced heavily by colonialism. The study of prehistoric life through fossils was also branded as an enabler for racism, with the professor referring to the field of palaeontology as ‘pale-ontology’.

Biohacker Bryan Johnson revealed shocking images of an allergic reaction he had to an ‘age defying’ treatment that involved injecting another person’s fat into his face. The 47-year-old multimillionaire, who is known for his outlandish anti-ageing treatments, sought the jabs as part of his quest for a ‘baby face’. But the procedure went disasterously wrong, resulting in extreme swelling of his upper face that caused him to temporarily lose his vision.

Family Ties star Justine Bateman has revealed that close friends of hers have turned their back on her after she came out and attacked the Biden administration. Just days after Trump was formally crowned the next commander-in-chief, Bateman posted on X that she was ‘decompressing from walking on eggshells for four years’. In a lengthy post to her social media, the 58-year-old said she had found the past four years under President Biden to be ‘an almost intolerable period’.

Donald Trump’s pick of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense will no doubt shake up the Pentagon say troops. The heavily tattooed 44-year-old deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and won two Bronze Stars, then unsuccessfully ran for Senate in Minnesota in 2012 before joining Fox News. Hegseth’s appointment came as a surprise to many since he’s a non-establishment pick with no previous government experience who will be leading the nation’s largest federal agency with a $800 billion budget.

Doctors, vicars and social workers have become the focus of police probes into hate crimes, startling new data has revealed. The professions are just a handful of examples among those in positions of authority who have been investigated for simply trying to carry out their jobs. A doctor was allegedly the focus of a probe for misdiagnosing a patient, while a vicar was accused of a hate crime for saying it is a religious sin to be gay.

A swarm of UFOs that were completely unaffected after being hit by missiles outside of an Afghanistan military base was caught on a jaw-dropping video. On Friday, ‘The UFOs subeddit’ – a forum for UFO discussions where people can talk about sightings, experiences, news and investigations – shared the full 10-minute version of the infamous video. The video begins with the camera scanning the flat land outside of the military base before zooming up on the distant mountains, where four black dots hovering in the sky can be seen.

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of hypocrisy after it was revealed the UK sent an incredible 470 delegates to the UN climate change summit in Azerbaijan. Britain’s huge delegation to the COP29 talks has left a massive carbon footprint – despite Labour’s zealous drive towards Net Zero – and cost taxpayers millions. The staggering environmental and financial cost comes despite the summit being deemed ‘no longer fit for purpose’, with leaders of some of the biggest polluting countries, including US President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi, shunning talks.

Are your hands just cold, or could you be suffering from a troublesome condition that affects roughly one in six Brits? Now a simple 1-minute quiz can tell you if you have Raynaud’s disease — the weather-related condition characterised by colour-changing fingertips. Raynaud’s is a disorder that affects blood circulation, causing a temporary narrowing of the arteries in reaction to certain triggers including cold weather.

When Donald Trump is inaugurated as America’s 47th president on January 20, the event will mark the official start of his second term in office with carefully stage-managed images that will be seen around the world. Within hours of the event, Trump will take his seat behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office and launch what he calls ‘the biggest mass deportation in American history’. While the expulsion of illegal immigrants was a focal point of Trump’s election campaign, the precise details of how he intends to accomplish his goal of removing as many as 20 million people from US soil have largely remained unknown.