Want to end the week on a high note? These inspiring stories from across the globe will get you thinking.
Charlie, a tabby cat from Abercarn in Wales, has returned home 10 years after going missing, having been found and identified through her microchip. The reunion happened on her owner’s 30th birthday, making an already unexpected return particularly memorable.
Heart Aerospace’s X1, a full-sized 30-seat electric aircraft, has completed its first flight, staying in the air for 27 minutes on battery power alone and reaching 1100 feet.
A 23-year-old, 4.5-metre python named Jodie Foster at Chester Zoo has become the first snake believed to have received electrochemotherapy, after a cancerous tumour in her jaw returned following surgery. The treatment, which combines the cancer drug bleomycin with electrical pulses to help it penetrate cancer cells, appears to have been successful, with Jodie now eating normally and showing no signs of the cancer returning.
Ethel Caterham, the world’s oldest living person, is celebrating her 117th birthday, reflecting on a year of memorable “firsts”, including meeting King Charles and holding his hand. Born in 1909, Caterham is now the last surviving subject of Edward VII and still enjoys spending time with family and friends, having previously survived Covid at 110 and continued driving until she was 97.
A group of grad students at Clemson University in South Carolina has developed an electric vehicle covered in solar panels that is intended to generate more energy than it uses.
A five-year study of more than 3,400 children found that those living in London experienced faster lung growth after the introduction of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ),