The maiden voyage of Boaty McBoatface, the robotic submarine named by the British public, has made a discovery about how climate change is causing rising sea levels.
Gloria Vanderbilt, the intrepid heiress, artist and romantic who began her extraordinary life as the "poor little rich girl" of the Great Depression, survived family tragedy and multiple marriages and reigned during the 1970s and 1980s as a designer jeans pioneer, died yesterday at the age of 95.
Storms hurled hailstones the size of ping-pong balls on to crops and vineyards in south-eastern France over the weekend, prompting authorities to declare a state of "natural emergency".
ACTIVIST Joshua Wong, who has become the face of Hong Kong's push for full democracy, walked free from prison yesterday and vowed to join a mass protest movement demanding that the city's leader Carrie Lam steps down.
The agriculture sector faces challenging targets under the Government's Climate Action Plan, with more than 30 action points to help reduce emissions by 10-15pc from the sector.
Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who rose to office in the country's first free elections in 2012 and was ousted a year later by the military, has collapsed in court during a trial and died.
Tech stocks – and software ones in particular – have had a big year, with Microsoft's stock price jumping 30% in 2019.
