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Laura Devlin & Laura FosterBBC News, SuffolkBBC/Jamie NiblockMuseum staff believe the binding and corners of this book are made using the skin of 19th Century murderer William CorderThe cover of a book held at a Suffolk museum was recently found to be made from the skin of a man hanged for a notorious murder almost 200 years ago.William Corder was convicted of killing a woman in 1827, which shocked Georgian Britain and became known as the Red Barn Murder.Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds realised the book, which was on a bookshelf in an office, had been…

PA MediaPope Francis meets former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at Dublin Castle in 2018Pope Francis’s visit to Ireland in 2018 came at a time when relationships with the Catholic Church were “quite difficult”, former Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has said.It was to be the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years – Mr Varadkar said he was initially “apprehensive” ahead of a meeting with the late pontiff.”We had just voted to legalise abortion earlier that year, and we’d brought in marriage equality a few years before that,” Mr Varadkar said.”We had a number of years where we were…

KOLKATA/KHARAGPUR: A fourth-year undergraduate student was found hanging in his room at IIT-Kharagpur’s JC Bose Hall of Residence on Sunday evening. Aniket Walkar, 22, who hailed from Gondia district in Maharashtra, was pursuing a dual degree programme from the Department of Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture. His end-semester examination was scheduled to begin on Monday.This is the second death of a student this semester on Kharagpur campus and the third in less than a year, following the deaths of 21-year-old electrical engineering student Shaon Malik on Jan 12 and third-year biotechnology student Devika Pillai in June.PollIs academic pressure a significant…

A file photo of a gym. Gym users consume protein powders as dietary supplements to gain muscle mass. | Photo Credit: Representational photo Karnataka Government would launch a special drive to create awareness among fitness enthusiasts who frequent gyms about the side-effects of unmonitored and unsafe consumption of protein powders, Law and Parliamentary Minister J.C. Madhuswamy and Health Minister K. Sudhakar informed the Legislative Assembly.In response to a question by Sathish Reddy (BJP) during zero hour, the Minister said steps would be taken to check illegal sale of protein powders in gyms.Gym users consume powders as dietary supplements in order…

NEW DELHI: The terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pak-occupied-Kashmir “remains fully intact”, with the main training camps in the hinterland and “launch pads” along the Line of Control (LoC) still very much in place, senior Army officers said on Tuesday after the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam.The massacre comes soon after Pak Army chief General Asim Munir last week claimed Kashmir was Islamabad’s “jugular vein”, while invoking the two-nation theory. “Our stance is absolutely clear — it (Kashmir) was our jugular vein, it will be our jugular vein, we will not forget it. We will not leave our Kashmiri…

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Sometimes there is no need to say anything.When you are as expressive on the touchline as Pep Guardiola, visual evidence can be enough to gauge the importance of an occasion.In Tuesday’s 2-1 victory over Aston Villa, there was a long period of simmering discontent, then thinly disguised fury at the penalty given against his team after referee Craig Pawson had been told to stop the game to check Ruben Dias’ ‘foul’ on Jacob Ramsey.Most thought video assistant referee (VAR) John Brooks was right. Guardiola was not among them. He shook his head, ranted at his coaches on the bench, then…