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A dead leopard on the A646 turned out to be “some tart’s coat”, said Metro. Ben Lilly, 40, was driving on the A646 near Hebden Bridge when he thought he spotted a leopard. He “cautiously left his car, heart racing and fearing his face may be ‘ripped off’ by the…

A “non-consensual” kiss at the Women’s World Cup football final has sparked global outrage and reignited debate over the enduring culture of machismo in Spain despite advances in gender equality.

Thousands of emperor penguin chicks are thought to have died across Antarctica last year as a result of a “catastrophic breeding failure”.

A woman has had an 8cm-long parasitic roundworm removed from her brain, reported The Guardian. The 64-year-old, who has experienced forgetfulness and depression, was admitted to hospital after three weeks of abdominal pain and diarrhoea, followed by a dry cough and night sweats. A scan revealed that a motile helminth…

This dish is traditional throughout Catalunya, said Anna Cabrera and Vanessa Murphy, and in different guises all over Spain.

Only three nations – the US, Russia and China – have managed a safe “soft” landing on the Moon, and no country has done so at its south pole. Until now that is.

Stefan Wolff professor of international security at the University of Birmingham explains how Yevgeny Prigozhin is just another in a long line of those who have faced an early demise after opposing Vladimir Putin. 

Most wolves are land-based predators, working in packs to chase down the likes of deer and elk. But on the coastal islands of British Columbia, these adaptable creatures have carved out a different existence, said Andrew Eames in the FT. Having come for the venison, they’ve stayed for the seafood,…

“And so it begins,” said Eugene Robinson in The Washington Post. “The masks, or hoods, are coming off.” It was only a matter of time before the angry rhetoric directed at the officials holding Donald Trump to account became “explicitly violent and racist”.