{Investors will be able to buy a slice of a rare earth miner in Burundi after Rainbow Rare Earths revealed plans to list on the London Stock Exchange.} RRE wants to raise £5.7m to dust off and restart the Gakara mine in the landlocked east African country, which operated for 30 years until 1978. Rare […]

{Heart disease remains the UK’s biggest killer, but there is much to be optimistic about: deaths are plummeting as we get better at preventing, diagnosing and treating the problem. Heart attacks have fallen by 40 per cent since the introduction of the smoking ban in 2007, according to a major review published earlier this year. […]

{An aircraft powered by solar energy left Egypt on Sunday on the last leg of the first ever fuel-free flight around the globe.} Solar Impulse 2, a spindly single-seat plane, took off from Cairo in darkness en route to Abu Dhabi, its final destination, with a flight expected to take between 48 and 72 hours. […]

{George Clooney has described his own family's flight from famine as he urged the world to remember that refugees are “people, just like you and me”, during a humanitarian conference in Armenia.} He presented the inaugural Aurora prize, worth $1.1m (£760,000), to a Burundian humanitarian worker who saved thousands of orphans' lives in the middle […]

{Environment secretary credits innovative farming methods for apparent resurgence in harvest mice in Hampshire.} Harvest mice have been rediscovered in the village where they were first identified as a species – more than 25 years after they were thought to be extinct in the area. Elizabeth Truss, the environment secretary, credited "innovative" new farming methods […]