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>Octopuses and humans descended from the same primitive worm-like animal that lived 518 million years ago, and this could be why the eight-limbed creatures are highly intelligent.The creature, known as Facivermis yunnanicus, is the…

>A schoolgirl who fought off a knife-wielding sex attacker and used her phone to snap a photo police used to snare him has spoken out after winning an award for bravery four years after the horror happened.Alexandra Muresan was just 15…

>Scientists have discovered that plastic pollution in Antarctica is as bad as everywhere else on the planet.The University of Oxford team found microplastics in the air, seawater and sea ice in the Weddell Sea near the South Pole.These…

>Pro-regime Iran fans hunted down anti-government supporters and attacked them outside a stadium in Qatar on Friday, ahead of their team's 2-0 World Cup victory over Wales.Several political issues have cast a shadow over the tournament,…

>An amazing sped-up video caught the moon whizzing by the sun during an eclipse that was only seen in space.The sun-observing GOES satellite and its SUVI (Solar Ultraviolet Imager) instrument captured the cosmic show while observing the…

>A group of England fans at the World Cup couldn't believe their luck when a Qatari businessman invited them back to his mega mansion for lunch after he had spotted one of them wearing a Wolverhampton Wanderers shirt.Jassa Dehal and his…

>Egyptian archaeologists have discovered ancient tombs containing mummies with golden tongues in their mouths – a possible mythological token to the afterlife. Authorities say a number of mummies were found in Qewaisna necropolis, a…

>Vladimir Putin's meeting today with mothers of servicemen he sent to the Ukraine-Russia war has been exposed as a cynical stage-managed sham.He met a group of ultra-loyalist women carefully selected not to ask difficult…

>Beyond Meat's Pennsylvania processing plant could be a cesspool of bacteria - leaked documents claim Listeria and mold had been found in the facility 11 times in less than a year.Listeria, a foodborne bacteria, was detected in the plant…

>A Wales fan gave a frank yet explicit one-word verdict of the team's World Cup defeat to Iran today to a reporter broadcasting live on Sky News, after the journalist had asked another fan what he thought of 'the win'.In the segment…