Going Dark by Julia Ebner review: Fails to bring her time undercover with extremists to life

Julia Ebner spent years undercover in every kind of extremist group but, Going Dark, her book charting those encounters fails to bring them to life By Julia Llewellyn Smith For Mail On Sunday Published: 22:02 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 7 March 2020 Going Dark Julia Ebner            … Read more

Known particle may hold the key to understanding dark matter

Particle that may date back to the Big Bang could hold the key to understanding the dark matter that makes up 80 per cent of the universe The sub-atomic particle is called a d-star hexaquark and was discovered in 2014  Dark matter is a mass that only interacts with regular matter through gravity It does … Read more

Dark Mode has arrived on WhatsApp

Hello darkness: WhatsApp’s highly-anticipated Dark Mode is finally released on iOS and Android promising to reduce eye strain and ‘prevent awkward moments where your phone lights up the room’ Dark Mode rolls out to Android and iPhones devices worldwide from Tuesday  The feature is meant to reduce eye strain in low light  and minimise eye fatigue … Read more

Health alert over takeaways as it emerges many use ‘dark kitchens’ using staff with no training

Health alert over online takeaways as it emerges many use unregulated ‘dark’ kitchens using staff with no training in food hygiene or allergies Takeaways like McDonald’s set up ‘dark kitchens’ which don’t have a restaurant Some operate by people without training and offer no allergen information The businesses are selling through social media such as … Read more

Dark side of Empire exposed as New York museum highlights how Britain built wealth from slavery

The role slavery and cheap labour played in the foundation and vast wealth of the British Empire has been highlighted by a New York museum. New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has redesigned its British galleries to illustrate how cultural traditions that sprang from the empire fitted alongside opulent wealth amassed from slave labour. The renovation … Read more

Student, 19, says gamer ex-boyfriend ‘hired a HITMAN on the dark web to kill her’

A Minnesota teenager is speaking for the first time since police informed her that an unidentified person had hired a hitman to have her killed.  Alexis Stern, 19, sat down with CBS’ 48 Hours for an episode set to air Saturday, and told the program that she believes her British ex-boyfriend ordered the hit. In July … Read more

BRIAN VINER reviews Dark Waters

Dark Waters (12A) Rating: Verdict: Quietly impressive Downhill (15) Rating: Verdict: Funny and thought-provoking  Not many actors have played crusaders against villainy in quite as many guises as Mark Ruffalo. He is the mighty Hulk in the Avengers movies, turning his superhuman strength against the forces of evil. In the Oscar-winning Spotlight (2016), he was one … Read more

Queen dons dark glasses as she arrives at Windsor Castle on a bright winter afternoon

Bringing the sunshine! Queen dons dark glasses as she arrives at Windsor Castle on a bright winter afternoon – after Prince Andrew set off from home in the rain Queen, 93, was pictured arriving at Windsor Castle in a chauffeur-driven car Monarch donned pair of sunglasses and accessorised with dainty pearl earrings  Prince Andrew was photographed … Read more

Chinese investigate the dark side of the moon and finds three distinct layers

Chinese rover is the first to investigate the dark side of the moon and finds three distinct layers after probing 131 feet below the lunar surface China’s Yutu-2 rover probed 131 feet below moon on its dark side Using radar, it found the moon’s ‘internal architecture’ consists of three layers The top consists of lunar … Read more