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The face of a suspected 'vampire', who was buried with restraints to prevent her returning from the dead, has been reconstructed by scientists.Using DNA, 3D printing and modelling clay, the team of scientists recreated what they think the 400-year-old woman's face looked like. Zosia, as she was named by locals, was found in 2022 by a team of archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland.She was entombed in an unmarked cemetery in Pien, northern Poland - secured in place with an iron sickle across her neck and padlocked by the foot. Image: Zosia's skeleton had a sickle across her neck - believed to stop 'vampires' rising from the dead. Pic: Nicolaus Copernicus University/Reuters The sickle and padlock, as well...

Australian golfer Jeffrey Guan has permanently lost sight in his left eye after a freak playing accident.The 20-year-old said he was hit in the face by a ball last month after taking his second shot on the third hole at a pro-am tournament last month. "As I turned toward the cart to put my club away, that was when I was struck. The instant ringing and pain rushed to my head, and I dropped down the ground," he said on Instagram.The two-time national junior champion said he was given fentanyl for the pain as he was rushed to hospital, before later being airlifted to another facility.Guan had only been a pro for a year and it happened just a week after he made his PGA Tour debut at a tournament in California. While Guan hasn't said where the ball that hit him came from, Golfing Monthly report...

In eastern Lebanon right now, there is a frantic race to create shelter.Schools, universities and sports halls are being transformed into relief centres for those who've been forced from their homes. As night fell in the town of Qob Elias, 25 miles from Baalbek, we found a technical college being cleared out by a group of local volunteers.Desks, tables and chairs were removed; mattresses, medical kits and drinking water were carried in.We came across Iman and her family of five. They are among the tens of thousands who have fled the Baalbek region in the face of Israeli air strikes. The first evacuation order came on Wednesday, and it sparked panic among residents. No one knew how long they had before the missiles would fall, so all Imam and her family have are the clothes on their backs. ...

A British charity is calling on the UK government to facilitate the urgent evacuation of 21 critically ill children from a besieged hospital in northern Gaza.The Kamal Adwan Hospital was recently raided by Israeli soldiers and many of the medical staff detained. Only two doctors remain to care for more than 150 patients, there is a severe lack of medical supplies, and the surgical facilities no longer function.The hospital was hit by another airstrike in the early hours of Thursday morning, destroying much of the third floor.The Israel Defence Forces claims Hamas fighters have been hiding and operating from the Kamal Adwan Hospital, which is in the Jabaliya refugee camp, and released a video showing weapons it says it found in the compound. The hospital denies any Hamas presence. ...