86 minutes ago Kidney transplants are safe between people with HIV, new US study shows

A new study found people with HIV can safely receive donated kidneys from deceased donors with the virus

Politics

1 hour ago ‘A triumph’: London’s £19bn Elizabeth line is named best new architecture in Britain

With its futuristic panels, airy tunnels and elegantly unified design, the 73-mile addition to the tube is a worthy winner of the prestigious Stirling prize – and puts the rest of the creaking, sooty network to shameWith the longest platforms, the biggest tunnels and the fastest trains on the entire London underground, the Elizabeth line boasts a dizzying list of superlatives, carrying more people a day than any other train line in the country. It is now deemed to have the best design, too – being named as the winner of the 2024 RIBA Stirling prize for the finest architecture in the UK. The competition was stiff: from the National Portrait Gallery in London to the renovation of the Park Hill estate in Sheffield, from a Dorset dairy farm conversion to a street of social housing in Hackne...

Economics

2 hours ago Organised crime gang led by promising footballer found with cocaine worth £300,000

Armani Brown, 26, who used the name Emporio Armani in drug communications, was discovered in possession of the drugs after a warrant was executed at a house in Newport

Events

3 hours ago We tried the McDonald's burger that's returned after a decade, I'm not sure what people expected

It's one of four new items being added to the menu this week

Politics

3 hours ago People are coming down with Covid, but this is why we won't be seeing mass testing again, says Greater Manchester GP

The winter surge in Covid cases is difficult to track as there is now a mass testing programme

Politics

3 hours ago Canadian doctors reveal regret over euthanizing patients who were simply obese or poor

Newly-unearthed documents reveal many of the physicians charged with carrying out assisted dying in Canada have found the loosening of criteria 'morally distressing.'

Science

3 hours ago ‘Morning Joe’ warns that ‘exhausted’ Trump is slurring his words and ‘becoming more erratic by the day’

‘I know people get exhausted in a long campaign and I think that we are really seeing signs of a 78-year-old man who obviously has been through a trial, been through an attempted assassination, going through the rigors of this campaign’

Events

3 hours ago Business leaders urge unions to call off 'damaging' Tube strike action as passengers face fresh misery

Businesses warn of damage to ‘London’s hard-earned reputation as a global business centre’ as network set to grind to a halt next month

Politics

3 hours ago Skeleton crew: California driver nabbed for using carpool lane with plastic effigy

Highway patrol says carpool lanes are for ridesharing for living humans, not lifeless bony impostorsDrivers looking to beat California’s endless traffic can use designated carpool lanes, provided they have others in their car. But there’s one pesky requirement: those other people have to be alive.That was not the case for a driver stopped this weekend near San Jose for using a fake companion, police say. Riding in the passenger seat was a plastic skeleton. In an apparent effort to add to the illusion, the skeleton was wearing a mask with a giant mouth, reminiscent of the Scream films. Continue reading...

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