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Firefighters attended the blaze in Can Picafort, located along the northern coast of Mallorca.

The singer, 35, appeared in high spirits as he cheered on Ipswich from the stands of Portman Road stadium and even had a camera out to take photos of the game.

Those who regularly chew sugar-free gum could face a higher risk of suffering a deadly heart attack or stroke, a new study suggests.

Reform UK's leader proposes 'light-touch' alternative, although rival politicians say plans are sparsely detailed and inconsistent with reality

fahrbot-bot shares a report from Smithsonian Magazine: The brain is one of the first organs to begin decomposing after death. Yet archaeologists have discovered more than 4,400 preserved human brains around the world, some of which have remained intact for the last 12,000 years. In hundreds of cases, the brain was the only soft tissue left among otherwise skeletal remains. But how and why do brains sometimes persist for millennia while all other types of soft tissue disappear? This preservation paradox has stumped scientists for years. Now, however, a team of researchers say they may have solved the mystery. If a brain ends up in a wet, oxygen-starved environment, the processes that usually cause decay can have the opposite effect, researchers report in a study published in the August 7 issue of the Journal of Proteome Research. "Under the right conditions, preservation actually arises from decay itself: The same reactions that degrade tissue can also weld the breakdown products together into something far tougher," study co-author Alexandra Seviour, a paleobiologist at the University of Oxford in England, tells Live Science's Victoria Atkinson. Following experiments on 72 mouse carcasses (described in the article) the scientists think they know why. When oxygen is abundant, it triggers a cascading, chemical chain reaction that causes brain proteins to break down rapidly. This sequence hinges on free radicals, highly reactive, unstable molecules that "steal" electrons from nearby atoms and molecules. The process happens in the brains of living people too, and if left unchecked, can cause health problems. In low-oxygen environments, however, this chemical sequence appears to play out differently. The researchers' analyses hint that free radicals instead react and bond with nearby proteins, making the overall tissue tougher and more resistant to decomposition, Seviour tells Chemical and Engineering News' Anirban Mukhopadhyay. The findings show that "decay is not the opposite of preservation but, under specific chemical constraints, one of its mechanisms," the researchers write in the paper.

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MIKE KEEGAN: The 46-year-old American spent a day in jail and was fined $1,150 (£844) after he was exposed in a police sting operation at a US trailer park.

Ayub Qassim invited party-loving Jay, 19, back to his rented holiday cottage in Tenerife after a rave before he vanished, sparking a month-long hunt for the apprentice bricklayer.

Police have launched an investigation after an Irish couple's naked bodies were found beside a hot tub in their rented Spanish property. 

The UK supermarket chain has recalled its Tesco Finest Mozzarella Pearls & Pesto Orzo Salad (215g).

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei (pictured) was named Iran's new supreme leader on March 8, a week after joint US-Israeli airstrikes killed his father Ali Khamenei on February 28.

With their dense wordplay, old English phrases and complex poetic meter, Shakespeare plays can be notoriously difficult to understand.

High cholesterol causes a sticky form of fat to build up in the arteries, blocking blood flow. Left untreated, it can raise the risk of a heart attack, stroke and even dementia.

The Kremlin is set to target the UK, sources said, after miscalculating Andy Burnham's commitment to Kyiv .

I started suffering from alopecia 11 years ago, when I was 75. It began with bald patches, and the extraordinary thing was that I never knew where the next patch was going to appear.

Hélder Martins, president of the Algarve Hotels and Tourism Enterprises Association, wants to stamp out tourism centred around drinking '24 hours a day'.

The death of two serving police officers, after their patrol car collided with a stolen VW Passat driving the wrong way on the A66, places two very different worlds into stark contrast.

Wolferton Royal Station opened in 1862 and became a regular stop for royal trains arriving from St Pancras or King's Cross in London to the nearby Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: His early life was filled with 'maids, Bentleys and jets'. So it seemed natural that by the time he was 21, Paul Bessell should have a flat in and an apartment in different cities...

Firefighters were called to tackle a field fire in Rickling Green, Essex, yesterday caused by an out-of-control bonfire.

Sinjar Zurel, 27, and Seyin Zurel, 24, both from the Malpas area of Truro, have been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent after a 'machete brawl' in Truro, Cornwall, on Monday.