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A study found family businesses are more likely to be passed on from father to son rather than to daughters.

The AA estimated that more than 18 million people took to the roads, with a similar number expected to make journeys on the remaining days of the Easter weekend.

The 48-year-old Doctor Strange star pulled off an impressive balancing act on a surfboard as he enjoyed a sunshine break in Costa Rica with his wife, Sophie Hunter.

JONATHAN McEVOY: There is no hiding place under the lights of a desert night. And Lando Norris discovered that hard truth with a thud as he crashed out of a thrilling qualifying session in Jeddah.

The Royal Navy is struggling to hire and hold on to sailors manning the Trident nuclear deterrent, resulting in shortages of engineers and other critical roles.

Donald Trump intensified his diplomatic war with China yesterday by setting out in detail why the US government believes the Covid pandemicoriginated in a Wuhan laboratory.

Police are investigating astonishing claims that corrupt detectives working for Mohamed Al Fayed deceived one of his victims by staging an elaborate ruse involving a bogus MI5 officer and a bugged flat.

NADINE DORRIES: Google Dr Ravi Jayaram and he pops up as a 'TV personality'. It's a moniker well earned having appeared on This Morning and The Weakest Link.

At ten weeks old, Rafferty Isaac is a specially miraculous bundle of joy to parents Lucy and Adam - because he was born twice.

The Mail on Sunday has learned the script has been 'specifically tailored' to Ms Kardashian, who is anxious to make her big-screen debut as a leading lady.

Craig Revel Horwood is used to being watched by more than eight million fans as he judges Strictly Come Dancing performances.

Hay fever sufferers who followed a resistance training programme on top of medication experienced significantly fewer symptoms than those who just took pills, a study has found.

They are designed to give parents of primary school children 30 minutes of free childcare a day, or up to 95 hours a year.

Billions of years ago Mars "had a warm, habitable climate with liquid water in lakes and flowing rivers," writes Ars Technica. But "In order for Mars to be warm enough to host liquid water, there must have been a lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere," says Benjamin Tutolo, a researcher at the University of Calgary. "The question we've been asking for at least 30 years was where the record of all this carbon is." Tutolo led a new study of rock samples collected by the Curiosity rover that might have answered this question... Curiosity rover was called Mars Science Laboratory for a reason. It went to the red planet fitted with a suite of instruments, some of which even the newer Perseverance was lacking. These enabled it to analyze the collected Martian rocks on the spot and beam the results back to Earth. "To get the most bang for the buck, NASA decided to send it to the place on Mars called the Gale Crater, because it was the tallest stack of sediments on the planet," Tutolo says. The central peak of Gale Crater was about 5 kilometers tall, created by the ancient meteorite impact... The idea then was to climb up Mount Sharp and collect samples from later and later geological periods at increasing elevations, tracing the history of habitability and the great drying up of Mars. On the way, the carbon missed by the satellites was finally found... It turned out the samples contained roughly between 5 and 10 percent of siderite... The siderite found in the samples was also pure, which Tutolo thinks indicates it has formed through an evaporation process akin to what we see in evaporated lakes on Earth. This, in turn, was the first evidence we've found of the ancient Martian carbon cycle. "Now we have evidence that confirms the models," Tutolo claims. The carbon from the atmosphere was being sequestered in the rocks on Mars just as it is on Earth. The problem was, unlike on Earth, it couldn't get out of these rocks... A large portion of carbon that got trapped in Martian rocks stayed in those rocks forever, thinning out the atmosphere. "While it's likely the red planet had its own carbon cycle, it was an imperfect one that eventually turned it into the lifeless desert it is today," the article points out. But the study still doesn't entirely explain what warmed the atmosphere of Mars — or why Martian habitability "was seemingly intermittent and fluctuating".

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Nigel Parsley ruled earlier this month that there had been a 'missed opportunity' to save the life of Thomas Glover, 71, who had been discharged from hospital with suspected gastroenteritis.

In an effort to get more vulnerable people vaccinated against the virus the Government will allow hundreds of community pharmacies to offer a jab against respiratory syncytial virus

New research reveals that Victoria's Beckham's drive and determination to succeed could have been destined by her first name.

Just one per cent of dentists surveyed said they were looking for work on the NHS, meaning only about 240 were available to fill the 3,000 needed across the country.

For decades gardeners have gone to war with moss. No longer - for experts are now urging us to let it flourish because it can help absorb water in damp, boggy gardens and aid biodiversity.

McDougall called on Lammy to meet members of the British National (Overseas) community whose savings have been frozen by the banking giant.