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Danish scientists have come up with a new technology to recycle used clothes instead of just burning them Recycling used by still-usable clothing is a great thing – but when textiles are torn, hopelessly dirty or worn, they have to be thrown out. Many types of clothing today can’t be …

The television show’s depiction of thwarted hopes and social change still resonates 25 years on The year is 1999. The Berlin Wall has fallen; the twin towers still stand. America’s only war is against drugs. History, if Francis Fukuyama is to be believed, is over, and liberal democracy has triumphed. …

For one British director to have made a movie named the world over as the year’s best may be regarded as good fortune. For two to do so looks like carefulness. Three, however, suggests a trend. And that only takes us to February. The vicissitudes of awards season mean that …

Ncuti Gatwa, Helena Bonham Carter, Toby Jones and more imbue the latest Sam Mendes-produced adaptation of the author’s works with wit, charm and magic Following last year’s starry adaptation of Oliver Twist, Audible has pushed the seasonal boat out again with a beguiling version of David Copperfield, executive-produced by Sam …

Sweet singers with a transgressive bent, they have a healthy following on TikTok and Spotify – but won’t settle for less than global fame From London Recommended if you like New Edition, Usher, Lucky Daye Up next New music in early 2024 It has been a while since there was …

When Andrew Haigh was shooting his new film, All of Us Strangers, in his parents’ old house in Croydon, something strange began to happen. “I started getting eczema again, and I’d not had eczema since I was a kid,” says the director, who is now 50. “It was coming up …

On the day of Tisha B’Av, when Jews mourn the destruction of their temples, a symbol of redemption was seen on the Temple Mount. During the fast day to commemorate the destruction of the two temples in Jerusalem this week, a fox was sighted on the wall of the Temple Mount, fulfilling …

While much of Israel’s land has already been dug up and explored, archaeological discoveries underwater are just beginning to surface   The drone of a massive underwater vacuum cleaner pierces the silence at one of Israel’s most picturesque locations, a calm lagoon at Dor Beach where small, sandy islands poke …

Government budgets 120 million shekels to protect ancient heritage from Palestinian destruction. Prime Minister  Benjamin Netanyahu  announced Monday that the government will safeguard and rehabilitate archaeological sites in the biblical heartland that have been vandalized by Palestinians. The infrastructure investment at the archaeological heritage sites follows decades of neglect, damage …

“At first my husband laughed at me, but today the whole family already knows the amazing story that happened to me.” (TPS) A 74-year-old woman strolling on Israel’s Palmahim beach south of Tel Aviv found a 3,000-year-old figurine of an Egyptian goddess, which she turned over to grateful archaeologists at …