DNA testing identifies California ‘Jane Doe’ after nearly 60 years
Forensic genetic genealogy has named the woman, whose body was found on a cliff in 1966, as Dorothy Jean Williams.
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โItโs a new kind of prisonโ: Amanda Knox on redemption, rage โ and her unlikely friendship with the prosecutor who hounded her
Ten years ago she was finally cleared of the brutal murder of her housemate Meredith Kercher in Perugia. But is Knox really free?โข โI call us the Sisterhood of Ill Reputeโ: read an exclusive extract from her new memoirAmanda Knox says she is one of the…
Competitive and sustainable farming in Europe: give breeders a chance
The newly created [aclp.eu] Agricultural Crop Licensing Platform (ACLP) simplifies access to patented traits for European plant breeders, enabling them to leverage the latest technologies and help farmers to meet the challenges of sustainable food production. Europeans rightly expect safe food at affordable prices. But this is getting harder and harder for European farmers to [โฆ]
Woman who lived to age 117 had genes keeping her cells โyoungerโ, study shows
Maria Branyas Morera, US-born supercentenarian who died in Spain last August, found to have microbiota of an infantThe US-born woman who was the worldโs oldest living person before she died in Spain last August at age 117 once attributed her longevity …
The head of NATO is struggling for relevance
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte will try to prove to Donald Trump in their Thursday meeting that he โand the nearly eight-decade partnership โ still matter.
Cosmetic changes only for Councilโs telecoms conclusions
By calling the revision merely “possible,” the texts aims to avoid pre-empting the ongoing reflection on whether the upcoming DNA will include a full overhaul of the EECC.
Filmmaker Halfdan Ullmann Tรธndel is fulfilling his destiny
Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmannโs grandson has cinema in his DNA. But, he says, heโs no โdemon directorโ
Italian โmysticโ may face trial after DNA match with blood on Virgin Mary statue
Blood on statue at pilgrimage site near Rome came from woman declared โfraudโ by Roman Catholic church, test suggestsEurope live โ latest updatesA self-styled mystic who drew hundreds of pilgrims to a town near Rome by claiming that a statue of the Vir…
The nameless dead: scientists hunt for identities of thousands who tried to reach Europe
Expertsโ group employs new technologies and techniques to help relatives of those missing in the migration crisis Four years ago, the remains of a toddler encased in a lifejacket and a navy snowsuit washed up on a beach in southern Norway, having spent…
Guns, lies and audiotape: How Bidenโs family ties could lead to another pardon
For decades, a scandal-plagued Mississippi family has cozied up to the president. How will the relationship end?
Franziska Brantner elected co-leader of German Greens going into snap elections
Let’s “make Green great again,” Brantner says as party prepares for February’s national vote.
Nine in ten honey samples from UK retailers fail authenticity test
Call for industry reform as latest results support belief that products are being bulked out with cheaper sugar syrupThe honey industry faces new demands to overhaul its supply chain after more than 90% of sampled products bought from large British ยญre…
Identity of casts of victims at Pompeii not all they seem, research suggests
Scientists studying DNA find one person in scene of cowering family was a man and not a โmotherโ It is a tragic moment, frozen in time: a family of four shelters beneath a staircase as ash and pumice rains down on Pompeii. But scientists studying DNA o…
Brussels is bursting out of its borders. Thatโs helping the rise of the right.
Multilingualism is coming for Flanders โ though not everyone likes that idea.
Keir Starmerโs biggest enemy: The great-crested newt
Keir Starmerโs environment secretary wants to turn DEFRA into a growth department. That means a fight with the green lobby.
Sinwar might be gone, but Israelโs mission is far from over
The account might be settled with the Hamas leader, the debt paid โ but the war is not over. This is just the beginning of the end.
Israel has likely killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza, officials say
Israeli forces have eliminated other Hamas and Hezbollah chiefs in recent months.
Christopher Columbus was Spanish and Jewish, documentary reveals
Fifteenth century explorerโs true origins revealed after DNA analysis from samples buried in Seville CathedralThe centuries-old mystery over Christopher Columbusโs nationality has been revealed by scientists in a Spanish TV documentary after using DNA …
Christopher Columbus’s DNA to shed light on his origins
Research seeking to solve the mystery of the legendary explorer’s birthplace will feature in a documentary.
DNA study confirms Christopher Columbusโs remains are entombed in Seville
Scientists have โdefinitivelyโ proved identity of remains โ with navigatorโs precise origins to be revealedScientists in Spain claim to have solved the two lingering mysteries that cling to Christopher Columbus more than five centuries after the explor…
Morgan Vanlerberghe, the amateur detective who wants to catch the ‘butcher of Mons’
In 2022, Morgan Vanlerberghe published the results of his many years of research into the serial killer who murdered five women in the Belgian Ardennes. Based on this criminology enthusiast’s findings, the lawyer for the family of one victim is about t…
Omega-3 algae and eDNA: The Earthshot Prize selects Europeโs most promising climate solutions
From sustainable fish feed to environmental DNA, these are Europe’s finalists for the global environmental award.
Meet the worldโs toughest trade negotiator. Itโs not Donald Trump.
Piyush Goyalโs showmanship and negotiating savvy have made him a weapon for India as it takes up its mantle as a global superpower. But is his aggressive approach at risk of backfiring?
Never mind the war, the French Riviera still loves oligarchs
The south of France has long been a safe space for Russians.
Spainโs Sรกnchez announces 2025 budget โwith progressive DNAโ
The Spanish government will present a progressive draft budget for 2025 next week, Prime Minister Pedro Sรกnchez (PSOE/S&D) announced on Wednesday, asserting that his coalition government will complete the three years left of its mandate amid opposi…
EUโs ability to challenge โkiller acquisitionsโ dealt a blow by Europeโs highest court
Illumina, a global leader in DNA sequencing technologies, has won a battle against the EU over its decision to block the merger between it and Grail, a company specialising in early cancer detection through genetic diagnostics.
Rise in DNA tests being used to claim citizenship of other countries
Many people want to uncover their ancestry, but โ driven by Brexit โ others also hope to regain access to the EUSome do it to explore their ancestral heritage or an unknown part of their identity. Others are hoping to find parents, siblings and new rel…
โItโs in our DNAโ: Icelandโs president on the quest for gender equality
Halla Tรณmasdรณttir, the second woman to be Icelandโs head of state, says her inauguration was โtruly magicalโHalla Tรณmasdรณttir was just 11 years old when Vigdรญs Finnbogadรณttir became Icelandโs head of state โ and in the process the worldโs first democra…
Ukraine war briefing: Waves of Russian bombings and infantry assaults drive major gains in east
Russian military intensifies pressure on key Ukrainian transport hub of Pokrovsk; Kyiv receives bodies of 250 slain soldiers in exchange with Moscow. What we know on day 892See all our Ukraine war coverageRussian assaults are raising pressure on the st…
The Trump assassination attempt rattled the US. Hereโs what we know about the investigation.
The latest on how the would-be assassin got a gun, the Secret Service headโs regret and the startling unknowns about the shooter.
Neolithic population collapse may have been caused by plague, researchers say
DNA studies suggest disease was central to devastating collapse of northern European population 5,000 years agoA devastating population collapse that decimated stone age farming communities across northern Europe 5,000 years ago may have been driven by…
The magnificent mind of Emmanuel Macron
The president is a lonely, tragic figure whose strange personality has inflicted chaos and carnage on French politics.
What to expect from a Lepenist government
It’s far less important to know how Le Pen exorcised her party’s past demons than how a National Rally government will exercise power.
As the far right surges, Europe heads toward its Donald Trump momentย
If the polls are correct, this weekโs European Parliament election will reorder the Continentโs political landscape.
Franceโs cold case unit orders new DNA tests in unsolved Alps murders
Deaths of members of British al-Hilli family and French cyclist in remote layby have baffled detectives since 2012Detectives from Franceโs cold case unit have ordered DNA analysis of evidence in the unsolved killing of a British family and a French cyc…
New research raises hopes of exhuming foreign Spanish civil war dead
Catalan authorities ask relatives to provide DNA to help identify 522 members of International Brigades from US, Canada, Britain and IrelandResearchers in Catalonia have identified 522 members of the International Brigades, including 286 American and 8…
The Belgian town where families take in people with psychiatric conditions
Photojournalist Ilvy Njiokiktjien was granted rare access to document the lives of boarders and their foster families in Geel, which has a remarkable, centuries-old tradition of altruistic psychiatric careThe city of Geel in Belgium has a foster care s…
EU pitches new pharma bonus to cure rare diseases. But will it work?ย
While DNA-altering treatments promise to cure many rare diseases, they might not qualify for planned bonuses.ย
Taiwanโs Indigenous tribes could hold the key to its independence
By calling for conquest, Xi has made an enemy of the Taiwan’s tribes, which rightfully say their ancestors inhabited the island long before the dawn of the Chinese era.
Paris crowns champion servers in one-of-a-kind ‘cafรฉ race’
Dozens of waiters and waitresses competed in the streets of Paris to win the “Course des garรงons de cafรฉ” and be crowned the fastest server in town. Pierre Rabadan, deputy city mayor in charge of sport, says the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games…
A snap election may well be an option for โBibi the magicianโ
With pressure mounting at home and abroad, the Israeli prime minister and his trusted aides are considering whether an early election might be the best tactic to keep him in power.
Estonian president: NATO and EU canโt carry on like itโs peacetime
Russiaโs invasion came as no surprise to us. Russia seizes anything left unguarded. Therefore, we must leave nothing unguarded.
โI knew nothingโ: the Warsaw ghetto boy who found his family at 83
A DNA test has helped Shalom Koray find relatives in the US after escaping the Holocaust in a rucksack at the age of twoIn 1943, a two-year-old boy found wandering the streets of the Warsaw ghetto at the height of the Jewish uprising was smuggled out i…
Italian province orders all dogs to be DNA tested in poo crackdown
Owners in Bolzano, northern Italy, must pay โฌ65 for test, which police can use to search for dog muck culprits Dog owners in Bolzano must submit their pets for DNA tests as the authorities in the northern Italian province crack down on the scourge of d…
Airstrikes are unlikely to deter the Houthis
As far as Washington and London are concerned, Western retaliation is meant to convey a clear message to Iran โ stop. But why would it?
Plastic gets political as it washes ashore in Spain
Millions of spilled plastic pellets have shown up on beaches. Conservatives insist there’s little danger. Socialists say urgent action is needed.
Scientists crack mystery of how MS gene spread
The DNA of ancient cattle herders has revealed how diseases evolved in Europe over thousands of years.
Telecoms: Commission mulls market deregulation, infrastructure resilience, spectrum governance
According to information gathered by Euractiv, the draft proposal of the Commission’s long-awaited telecom white paper could including market deregulation, cloudification, infrastructure resilience and spectrum.