Robert Webb is currently reading Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking. The British novelist revealed he would take Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy stories by Douglas Adams to a desert island.

Amanda Owen is currently reading The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak And High Society Scandal In Kenya by Frances Osborne. The British writer would take Swaledale to a desert island.

Emily Gunnis is currently reading Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey. The British writer would take The Wicked Wit Of Winston Churchill to a desert island.

Claire Nelson who shattered her pelvis when she fell 20ft while hiking in California, reveals how she survived in the desert until she was found in a new memoir.

JOHN GRAY: The Conservatives are expanding their support among working-class people, while Labour's support among them is plummeting.

In the confines of the players' lounge and in off the record conversations on the practice ground, a litany of torment came to characterize a brutal first day at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.

DEREK LAWRENSON IN DUBAI: Remember all those US Opens where they set the course up so hard it became a lottery, and they ended up with a funky winner?

Author David Baldacci revealed he is currently reading A Dangerous Man by Robert Crais - who is a 'good friend and a helluva writer'.

Author Sue Monk Kidd reveals she would take her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor's book The Shark Club with her if she was trapped on a desert island because it would be a comfort to her.

Germany provided the first installment of live post-lockdown sporting action on Thursday by hosting a dozen races in Hanover. Many jockeys wore face masks while others used transparent plastic visors.

Businesses were closed, markets abandoned and streets empty as Nigeria's usually chaotic megacity of 20 million shuddered to a halt on the first full day of a two-week shutdown.

Logical thinking is one of the first casualties in situations of great stress, which must be the explanation for the way dividends are being demonised in the pandemic.

Wilbur Smith is currently reading The Egyptian by Mika Waltari. The writer revealed that he would take My African Journey by Winston Churchill to a desert island.

Like many others during this period of at-home isolation, she's been trying to remain active on walks around the neighborhood.

At a dramatic press conference in Downing Street, the PM set out the need for 'drastic action' to tackle the 'fast growth' of the virus across the UK as increased social distancing measures are introduced.

Some of Britain's best-kept secrets, whether stately homes with hidden rooms or bars with concealed entrances, come with fascinating histories. Here we marvel at their magic...

A stream of newish 'alternative assets' paying investors attractive dividends has become available to income-hungry investors.

It arises from the fact that many of the country's leading income-orientated trusts have sufficient income buffers (reserves) in place to withstand a hostile dividend environment.

Richmond and Carlton ran on to a completely deserted Melbourne Cricket Ground for the Round 1 blockbuster which would normally attract a 90,000 strong crowd.

Louis Lucero, 35, was arrested in Colorado on Thursday, a day after he allegedly killed Erlinda Villareal, 42, and her two sons, ages 9 and 12, in California and left their bodies in the desert.

Youcef Belaili fired Algeria into the last 16 of the Africa Cup of Nations with the only goal of a bad-tempered 1-0 victory over Senegal in Cairo in the Group C clash.

The game had looked to be heading to extra time as the two teams battled for the right to play Senegal in Friday's showpiece, but Man City midfielder Mahrez won it for Algeria late on.

Algeria beat Senegal to win the Africa Cup of Nations after Baghdad Bounedjah's heavily deflected strike just two minutes into the final.

A NASA rover has collected micro organisms from three feet into the ground in Chile's Atacama desert to give scientists a clear picture of what kind of bacteria they might expect to get from Mars.

The most reliable streaming providers have typically used cable to deliver content. But that’s all changing with the launch of new and better satellites that could one day give us 5G, low latency data. The FCC's International Bureau chief explains how those changes are happening almost overnight.

Shortage of water has been a tale of woe in Rajasthan for decades. But this year, the state's largest circulated Hindi daily, Rajasthan Patrika, has motivated around 155,000 volunteers to clean up 388 discarded traditional ponds and wells. Ramesh Menon reports from Jaipur.

Tendulkar's blitz narrowly edged out his match-winning 98 against arch-rivals Pakistan in the 2003 World Cup group match.

जब चार पहिया वाहनों की बात आती है, तो फ्रेंच ऑटोमोटिव उद्योग के कुछ शक्तिशाली नाम सामने आते हैं जैसे कि रेनॉल्ट, ग्रुप पीएसए और बुगाटी। फ्रांसीसी वाहन निर्माताओं का यूरोपीय ऑटोमोबाइल के समृद्ध इतिहास में प्रमुख उपस्थिति रही है। हालांकि,

Beaches nationwide have been shut for weeks as the government put itself on lockdown in mid-March to curb the spread of the virus, which has to date killed nearly 26,000 nationwide.

Artist, Victor talks about the founding of his church and the history of the lands.

Namib desert beetles live in an area with little ground water, so how is it that they have no trouble finding H2O? Find out how the resourceful insects use their wing scales to absorb water droplets from fog, and how we can use them as a model for combating water shortages.

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News stories on magnetic waste in the brain, the top deal breakers in online dating, and wolves that are willing to “risk it for the biscuit,” with David Grimm.   From the magazine How do we track where we are going and where we have been? Do you pay attention to your path? Look for landmarks? Leave a scent trail? The problem of navigation has been solved a number of different ways by animals. The desert-dwelling Cataglyphis ant was thought to rely on stride integration, basically counting their steps. But it turns out they have a separate method of keeping track of their whereabouts called “optic flow.” Matthias Wittlinger joins Sarah Crespi to talk about his work with these amazing creatures.   Read the research.   [Image: Rooobert Bayer /Music: Jeffrey Cook]

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