City of London approves twin towers to replace Fountain House
The City of London Corporation approved two new towers on Fenchurch Street, joining a pipeline of new skyscrapers due by 2030.
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Pakistani police shot Dhaka students demanding language rights
Police shot Bengali-speaking students in Dhaka in 1952 after they defied a ban on assembly. The protest helped shape Bangladesh's 1971 founding.
Harry Brearley found stainless steel while testing gun barrels
Harry Brearley was hunting for a steel that would stop gun barrels wearing away. In 1913 his Sheffield lab produced one that would not rust instead.
Buffon showed that falling needles could estimate pi
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, worked out in 1777 that a needle tossed onto lined paper could estimate pi through chance alone.
The Earl of Sandwich didn't invent the sandwich
John Montagu gave the sandwich its name at a card table in 1762, but bread wrapped around food is thousands of years older than his title.
Mary Austin opens the trunks that held Freddie Mercury's lyrics
Mary Austin packed Freddie Mercury's handwritten lyrics into four trunks in the 1980s. In the week he'd have turned 80, she is publishing them.
Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem after 358 years
Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 1995, working in secret for years and closing a gap that turned up during peer review.
Brazil's Pix instant payments undercut card fees
Brazil's central bank launched Pix in 2020, free for individuals and far cheaper than cards, and it now leads the country's payments.
Nepal's Everest permits have no cap, only a price and a test
Nepal's government decides who may attempt Everest from the south. It sets fees and experience rules but has not fixed a limit on the number of permits.
London's driverless taxis still carry a human safety driver
Waymo and Wayve are testing driverless cars in London, but a trained safety driver still rides along until regulators sign off.
Andy Ruiz Jr loses his comeback fight to Damian Knyba
Andy Ruiz Jr lost a unanimous decision to Poland's Damian Knyba in Newark, his first fight in two years, and says he wants a rematch.
UN votes to retire the Mercator map for Equal Earth
The UN voted 164 to 1 to phase out the Mercator map, which shrinks Africa to the look of Greenland, in favour of the 2018 Equal Earth projection.
Booked an all-inclusive? It began in tents on a Mallorca beach
The first all-inclusive resort was a 1950 Club Med tent camp on a Mallorca beach, run by Gérard Blitz. Corsica's Calvi gave Europe the package holiday.
Cyrus Field failed three times before the cable held
Cyrus Field spent nine years and three failed cable attempts trying to link Europe and America by telegraph, before a fourth attempt in 1866 finally held.
A Wimbledon broadcast named Emma Navarro's hypothyroidism
An ESPN commentator named Emma Navarro's hypothyroidism live at Wimbledon in July, months after unexplained absences derailed her season.
Sabalenka reaches the US Open last 16 after a rocky summer
Aryna Sabalenka is into the US Open fourth round and chasing a third straight title, after a summer in which her Grand Slam form collapsed.
Miliband was tipped for chancellor. He got the Foreign Office.
Ed Miliband was tipped to replace Rachel Reeves as chancellor under Andy Burnham. He was made foreign secretary instead, succeeding Yvette Cooper.
Estonia sells a digital ID card, not a right to live there
Estonian e-residency lets a foreigner start and run a company in Estonia online. It gives no right to enter the country or the EU, and no tax escape.
Ottolenghi wants one big dish for weekend breakfast
Yotam Ottolenghi wants one big shared dish in the middle of the weekend breakfast table. The recipes come from his new cookbook, Simple Too.
Homebuyers sue UK housebuilders over alleged price collusion
Law firms want up to £4.5bn from Britain's biggest housebuilders, on behalf of 700,000 buyers, over alleged collusion on new-build prices.
James Martin cooks every dish on camera unrehearsed
James Martin's Saturday Morning cookbook collects dishes he cooked on ITV for the first time, with no rehearsal. He still never watches the show back.
New robot submersibles aim to explore the ocean's hadal zone
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and NASA built Orpheus, a small robot submarine meant to survey the ocean trenches below 6,000 metres.
Timing decides what a Las Vegas flight costs
Which? found a £433 Las Vegas return by flying on New Year's Eve, against a £709 average, and KAYAK lists one-way fares to Vegas from $44.
Two Chinese towers pulled the core out of the middle
A skyscraper's core holds its lifts and mechanical services. Two towers in Beijing and Shenzhen split it or set it apart from the offices.