2 killed in Manchester terror attack outside synagogue on Yom Kippur, U.K. police say; attacker dead

2 killed in Manchester terror attack outside synagogue on Yom Kippur, U.K. police say; attacker dead

London — Two Jewish people were killed and four additional people were seriously injured in a terror attack outside a synagogue in the northern English city of Manchester on Thursday, authorities said. The vehicle and stabbing attack, which ended within minutes when police killed the attacker, comes as Jewish people around the world mark the holiday of Yom Kippur,…

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Remains of U.K. researcher who vanished in 1959 found on Antarctic glacier: “Shocked and amazed”

Remains of U.K. researcher who vanished in 1959 found on Antarctic glacier: “Shocked and amazed”

The remains of a British researcher who vanished in 1959 in Antarctica when he was 25 years old were discovered amid rocks near a receding glacier and identified using DNA analysis, the British Antarctic Survey said Monday. Dennis “Tink” Bell had been working as a meteorologist for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, the predecessor of…

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