Sunny Saturday News
- Editor OGN Daily
- Jan 10
- 4 min read
Ensuring the weekend gets off to a bright start with today's global round up of positive news stories.
New Year, New Bond
Definitely? Maybe? It's been almost four months since Amazon MGM announced that Dune mastermind Denis Villeneuve would direct the first Bond film since Daniel Craig retired from his turn as the character. If rumours are to be believed - and this time, it seems as though there's at least a little truth to the matter - Callum Turner will sign to His Majesty's secret service. Take this with a rather large grain of salt, but the Daily Mail quoted a source close to Turner as saying, "He's been blabbing all over town. Callum is the new Bond, it's been confirmed. Everyone in his circle is talking about it. It's the worst-kept secret going." Bookies William Hill says “we’ve had to shorten him into 1/2.”
Extraordinary Bone Box
An "extraordinary" artefact believed to date back to the late Roman period has been unearthed in the Cotswolds, England. The excavation uncovered 8,000 years of human activity but it was the discovery of a carved bone box which really excited archaeologists. The bone box was recovered from the grave of a young woman with archaeologists believing the find could offer new insight into the lives, beliefs and craftsmanship of the people who once occupied the north Cotswolds. Jamie Wilkins, who led the excavation, described the find as extraordinary and that he had never seen anything like it before.
On The Lamb
About 50 wayward sheep broke off from their flock and stormed a discount supermarket in a German town, startling and delighting customers as the animals rushed to explore the aisles before being escorted from the premises. The woolly incursion occurred during a routine seasonal migration of the sheep in Bavaria. A few dozen of the sheep had other ideas about the route and made their way into a store of the Penny retail chain. “It was impossible to tell whether the sheep were looking for something particular on offer or just wanted to warm up,” the company said in a statement, noting that the flock seemed particularly fond of the checkout area where shoppers and staff were present.
End of Finger Pricks
People with diabetes may soon have a noninvasive way to check blood glucose levels. MIT scientists developed a device that shines near-infrared light on the skin to obtain glucose measurements - rather than the current method, pricking a finger with a needle. The initial device was the size of a shoebox, but a wearable version is now being tested. If this one also has a high accuracy rate, “almost everyone with diabetes will benefit from this new technology,” said senior study author Jeon Woong Kang.
Pawprint
If you have a dog, you may like to know about dry foods. Why? Because dog food accounts for 1 percent of the UK’s total greenhouse gas emissions, according to research that found wet, raw and meat-rich products were associated with substantially higher emissions than dry kibble. If the rest of the world fed their dogs the way Britons do, it would generate greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to more than half of those from burning jet fuel in commercial flights each year. “The pet food industry should make sure meat cuts used are of the types not typically eaten by humans, and that labelling is clear. These steps can help us have healthy, well-fed dogs with a smaller pawprint on the planet.”
Remarkable Achievement
The number of people requiring treatment for trachoma – the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, spread via contaminated fingers or flies - has now fallen by 94 percent since 2002, says the World Health Organization. The milestone follows a decades-long drive by nations to tackle the disease by improving sanitation, diagnosis and antibiotic rollouts. Burundi, Egypt, Fiji, Mauritania, Papua New Guinea and Senegal all defeated trachoma in 2025. “A 94 percent decrease in people at risk since 2002 is a remarkable achievement,” said Michaela Kelly, chair of the International Coalition for Trachoma Control. The aim is to eliminate the disease entirely by 2030.
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.” Paulo Coelho
On This Day
10 January 1929: First edition of The Adventures of Tintin is published by Hergé in Le Petit Vingtième and continues until Hergé's death in 1983. The first English editions, published by Methuen, appeared in 1958 - 1959, with titles like The Secret of the Unicorn and Explorers on the Moon.
Today's Articles
Flower Power: Patterns embedded in 8,000-year-old pottery predates written mathematics by thousands of years.
British Comedy: The brilliant Barry Cryer - a legend in his own lifetime - had 'a gag for every occasion'.
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Hair Ice: A rare winter phenomenon that looks like candy floss, known in Sweden as Gnome's Beard.
