Your garden may simply be home to one of the many large garden spiders, which, despite their resemblance to Australia's notorious funnel-web spider, are not especially toxic nor aggressive.

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On Feb. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. In Lourdes, France, in 1858, 13-year-old Bernadette Soubirous was collecting pieces of wood as part of her daily chores ...

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Oh what a tangled web we weave when the multiverse becomes part of Spider-Man canon. The Spider-Man film franchise started simply enough, with 2002’s “Spider-Man.” Fast forward 20 years and ...

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Diego Leon calls himself a dreamer, but even he cannot quite have envisaged this — the sheer, pin-your-ears-back speed of the whole thing. In the middle of last year, he was a nobody.

The novel species changes the spider’s behaviour, making it leave its concealed lair or web to die in an exposed position on the roof or walls of a cave. After seeing the programme, Mr Fogg ...

United also completed the signing of highly-rated 17-year-old Diego Leon. The Paraguayan left-back is not currently at the club due to regulations put in place following the UK's exit from the ...

In Paris Madonna's daughter, Lourdes Leon, 28, shocked in a see-through cat suit alongside Matty Healy's equally half dressed fianceé, Gabbriette Bechtel, as they attended the Saint Laurent show.