1626: An explosion at the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory in Beijing destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people. 1640: Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens dies aged 62.

Peter Yarrow, lead vocalist and songwriter for the folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, passed away on 7 January 2025 at 86 after a four-year battle with bladder cancer. As we remember Yarrow's legacy, ...

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This is a substantial policy achievement for Premier Peter Malinauskas ... at the VALO Adelaide 500 in December, 2022. Picture: Paul Starick Now, though, he clearly believes those critical ...

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The advice came in a strongly-worded letter sent in April 2020 by the chief executive of the Francis Crick Institute, Sir Paul Nurse, and its research director, Sir Peter Ratcliffe, to the then ...

After more than 38 years behind bars Peter Sullivan is now a free man. The 68-year-old was found guilty of the murder of florist and pub worker Diane Sindall in 1987. But on Tuesday 13 May ...

The Court of Appeal ruling in the case of Peter Sullivan ends what's thought to be the longest-running miscarriage of justice in British history. He was found guilty of the 1986 murder of 21-year ...

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