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A painting of an Edwardian Hull trawler that saved the crew of its sinking archenemy is to go under the hammer on Friday...
20/09/2024

A painting of an Edwardian Hull trawler that saved the crew of its sinking archenemy is to go under the hammer on Friday.

Ellesmere sailed out of the Humber between the turn of the 20th Century and the early 1930s and had been involved in numerous brushes with Irish fishery protection vessel Muirchu before coming to her rescue.

Also included in the collection is a painting of the trawler Pharos, whose disappearance remains a mystery, and the trawler Seti, which became an early victim of World War One.

They are astonishingly beautiful moments of human endeavour, but not all spacewalks go to plan – astronauts and cosmonau...
10/09/2024

They are astonishingly beautiful moments of human endeavour, but not all spacewalks go to plan – astronauts and cosmonauts have become stuck in hatches, lost tools and come close to drowning.

The launch of SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission will mark the beginning of what could be another historic moment in commercial spaceflight: the first spacewalk by a private citizen.
Billionaire Jared Isaacman, who has funded much of the mission, is aiming to become the first non-professional astronaut to complete a private spacewalk by stepping outside SpaceX's Dragon capsule.
The mission is aiming to reach an altitude of around 870 miles (1,400km), which would make it the highest crewed spaceflight since the Apollo missions more than 50 years ago.
Isaacman will perform his two-hour spacewalk at a lower orbit altitude of around 434 miles (700km), and will be accompanied by SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis. The pair will be wearing SpaceX spacesuits equipped with helmet displays and helmet-mounted cameras.

"Gond katira contains soluble fibre which acts like a prebiotic and helps in the proliferation of gut flora. Since it ho...
26/08/2024

"Gond katira contains soluble fibre which acts like a prebiotic and helps in the proliferation of gut flora. Since it holds water for a long time, it keeps hydrating your body for a long duration," explained Khanna, who notes that gond katira was a common summer ingredient in north Indian households until the mid-'80s when packaged cold drinks entered the Indian market. "It is a very poorly acknowledged ingredient," she added.
Abhilasha Jain owns Marwadi Khana, a catering service in Gurgaon that specialises in Rajasthani vegetarian cuisine. She grew up in Bhilwara in the desert state of Rajasthan where she first discovered gond katira after getting heat stroke as a young girl. But over the years, this ingredient faded from her life. Five years ago, during a hotter-than-usual summer, she received gond katira from her mother and now she uses it regularly. "We drink it with different kinds of sherbet – khus (vetiver), sandalwood and white rose," she said. Sometimes, she also mixes gond katira with rabdi, a sweet made with condensed milk, sugar or jaggery, spices and nuts.

Kaur laments that the younger generation has forgotten about traditional and seasonal foods like gond katira. However, i...
12/08/2024

Kaur laments that the younger generation has forgotten about traditional and seasonal foods like gond katira. However, in the last few years, she has introduced several friends and neighbours to this gum to help relieve them from extreme heat. And since the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a rise in Indian consumers eating more consciously and taking an interest in natural foods, which has resulted in a growing popularity of foods such as gond katira among young people.
"We are seeing an increase in the demand for gond katira because people are learning about it through social media," said Chaitanya Jaggi, whose family owns Om Sai Ram, a spice shop in Khari Baoli market. His sales of gond katira spike between March and August, when heat and humidity are peaking in many parts of India.

Gond katira has also long been considered a herbal remedy. "It has been used by Unani [a traditional medicine system pra...
25/07/2024

Gond katira has also long been considered a herbal remedy. "It has been used by Unani [a traditional medicine system practiced in South Asia] physicians for centuries as it has the ability to cool the body, improve skin texture and liver enzymes and boost immunity," explained Dr Syed MM Ameen, a Unani doctor based in Chennai.
Ameen added that its benefits are mentioned in the Canon of Medicine, compiled by the 11th-Century Persian physician Avicenna, which is still used in Unani medical colleges; and in the Indian government's National Formulary of Unani Medicines for its usage as a single drug and in compounded medications to treat liver and respiratory diseases.

This year, when India experienced its longest ever heatwave, locals turned to cool drinks like never before.Caught in a ...
16/07/2024

This year, when India experienced its longest ever heatwave, locals turned to cool drinks like never before.

Caught in a sudden downpour on a July afternoon, I carefully walked down the crowded, muddy sidewalk in old Delhi to reach Khari Baoli, Asia's largest wholesale spice market. I soon found what I was looking for in an array of bowls heaped with spices at the entrance of a narrow shop. Here, small, uneven, translucent crystals, their off-white colour infused with the slightest rusty hue, lay in a cardboard tray. A small plastic sign set among the crystals read, "Rs 120 [£1.12] for 250g, Gond Katira".
My curiosity about this lesser-known ingredient began some years ago on a sweltering summer day during a visit to a friend's house. Her mother offered me a popular drink with a twist: a glass of lemonade but with small pieces of white jelly in it. She told me it had a cool taseer (the cooling or warming property of a food) that reduces body heat. The tasteless and odourless jelly, made from soaked crystals, was gond katira, or tragacanth gum.

Did Bad Bunny look as if he had yanked his suit jacket out of the sewing machine before the tailor had actually finished...
28/06/2024

Did Bad Bunny look as if he had yanked his suit jacket out of the sewing machine before the tailor had actually finished making it? Yes. But he still looked great.
The rapper and singer wore a Renaissance-inspired custom Maison Margiela suit in navy blue with white threading which resembled pinstripes.
He carried a floral bouquet made from the same material as his jacket, reportedly intended to resemble a mixture of roses, Flor de Maga (the national flower of Puerto Rico), and the flax plant, which Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on in the fairy tale.

Singer Lana Del Rey had not attended the Met Gala since 2018, so decided she needed to give her fashion sense a root-and...
18/06/2024

Singer Lana Del Rey had not attended the Met Gala since 2018, so decided she needed to give her fashion sense a root-and-branch overhaul.
She wore a corseted dress in silk, double georgette and tulle. The dress referenced an Alexander McQueen piece from nearly two decades ago, brought up to date by the fashion house's current creative director Seán McGirr.
But the highlight was the special headpiece, which made use of natural hawthorn branches.

We've got to hand it to her, Demi Moore had one of the best looks of the night, even if she forgot to bring a bow to go ...
10/06/2024

We've got to hand it to her, Demi Moore had one of the best looks of the night, even if she forgot to bring a bow to go with her arrows.
The actress's velvet dress, designed by Harris Reed, was adorned with huge pink peonies made from vintage archival wallpaper.
Reed said the dress took more than 5,000 hours to make, adding that it was designed so the flowers would appear to decay as the design flowed further down the dress.

The Bear star Ayo Edebiri and Schitt's Creek actor and writer Dan Levy both opted to keep their floral designs on the do...
27/05/2024

The Bear star Ayo Edebiri and Schitt's Creek actor and writer Dan Levy both opted to keep their floral designs on the down low, with outfits that looked traditional from the top but bloomed from the waist down.
Edebiri wore a backless column dress by Loewe with a hand-embroidered floral pattern intended to create the illusion of gradual blossoming.
Similarly, Levy wore what looked like a classic suit from the top half, but which faded a into a bright floral motif lower down.

Normally when stars talk about wearing ice, they're referring to diamonds. In Camila Cabello's case, however, she's refe...
07/05/2024

Normally when stars talk about wearing ice, they're referring to diamonds. In Camila Cabello's case, however, she's referring to actual frozen water.

"My hands are really cold," the singer said, explaining she was planning to pass the ice on to someone else after she reached the top of the stairs. "I can't feel my hands."

The large block of ice featured a rose in the centre and accessorised her Ludovic de Saint Sernin gown, which reportedly featured 250,000 crystals and took more than 450 hours to make.

Disinformation tactics in the US presidential elections have evolved since 2016, when Donald Trump won. Back then, there...
22/04/2024

Disinformation tactics in the US presidential elections have evolved since 2016, when Donald Trump won. Back then, there were documented attempts by hostile foreign powers, such as Russia, to use networks of inauthentic accounts to try to sow division and plant particular ideas.

In 2020, the focus was on home-grown disinformation - particularly false narratives that the presidential election was stolen, which were shared widely by US-based social media users and endorsed by Mr Trump and other Republican politicians.
In 2024, experts warn of a dangerous combination of the two.

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