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 From BBC News By Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent, Edited by -Vinuri Randhula Silva, IMAGE SOURCE, HUGO BURNAND Image caption, King Charles's coronation service will be a mix of ancient and modern King Charles III's coronation is to be held on Saturday 6 May, at Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace has announced. Camilla, the Queen Consort, will also be crowned alongside the King in the historic ceremony. King Charles became monarch when his mother the late Queen died, but the coronation will mark a symbolic celebration of his new reign. But it will be a shorter, smaller and more diverse ceremony than the previous coronation, held 70 years ago. It is not yet known whether there will be an extra bank holiday added or moved to the coronation weekend, with a bank holiday already scheduled for earlier that week on Monday 1 May. Buckingham Palace has indicated the ceremony will combine the ancient and modern - saying it will be "rooted in longstanding traditions" but wil

 From  BBC News, By Michelle Roberts Digital health editor Edited by Amal Udawatta, IMAGE SOURCE, GETTY IMAGES Scientists say they have made a breakthrough designing a vaccine against all 20 known types of flu. It uses the same messenger-ribonucleic-acid (mRNA) technology as successful Covid vaccines. Flu mutates and the current annual jab is updated to ensure the best match for the sort circulating but would probably not protect against new pandemic types. The new vaccine triggered high levels of antibodies, in tests on ferrets and mice, that could fight a broad range. The antigens it contains - safe copies of recognisable bits of all 20 known subtypes of influenza A and B viruses - can teach the immune system how to fight them and, hopefully, any new strain that could spark a pandemic, the researchers say, in the journal  Science . "The idea here is to have a vaccine that will give people a baseline level of immune memory to diverse flu strains," Dr Scott Hensley, one of th

By Vinuri Randhula Silva, The  vulturine guinea fowl  ( Acryllium vulturinum ) is the largest extant  species  of  guinea fowl . Systematically, it is only distantly related to other guinea fowl genera. Its closest living relative, the  white breasted guinea fowl ,  Agelastes meleagrides  inhabit primary forests in Central Africa. It is a member of the  bird  family  Numididae , and is the only member of the genus  Acryllium . It is a resident breeder in northeast  Africa , from southern  Ethiopia  through  Kenya  and just into northern  Tanzania . The vulturine guinea fowl is a large (61–71 centimetres (24–28 in)) bird with a round body and small head. It has a longer wings, neck, legs and tail than other guinea fowl. The adult has a bare blue face and black neck, and although all other guinea fowl have unfeathered heads, this species looks particularly like a  vulture  because of the long bare neck and head. The slim neck projects from a cape of long, glossy, blue and white hackl

  By – Vinuri Randhula Silva, The  crested pigeon  ( Ocyphaps lophotes ) is a  bird  found widely throughout mainland  Australia  except for the far northern  tropical  areas. Only two Australian pigeon species possess an erect crest, the crested pigeon and the  spinifex pigeon . The crested pigeon is the larger of the two species. The crested pigeon is sometimes referred to as a  topknot pigeon , a common name shared with the reddish crested  Lopholaimus antarcticus  of Eastern Australia. The length of the crested pigeon varies from 30 to 34 cm (12 to 13.6 in). Colouration is grey with tinges of brown and green. It has a feathered but slender, black spike on top of the head. It runs with the crest erect. The periorbital skin is bright orange. Wings have black stripes and are bronzed, while the primary feathers have colorful areas of brown, purple, blue, and green.  Immature  birds have duller colors with no bronzing on the wings. The birds can be normally seen in two sizes, they can