37 minutes ago Don’t listen to opponents of assisted dying: a Labour government’s legacy must be freedom | Polly Toynbee

I have campaigned for the right to avoid a needlessly agonising death all my life. After this vote, I hope I will no longer have toThe time has come for a defining moment early in a Labour era that has so far lacked definition. This is the week a Labour parliament can make its mark in the long campaign for personal freedoms over birth, sex, life and death. If not, if MPs prove pusillanimous in the face of loud but thinly supported objections backed by organised religion, they will ignore the opinion of a public that is strongly in favour: the British social attitudes survey’s first polling in 1983 found 77% of people in favour of assisted dying, and that figure has hardly varied since then. After campaigning all my life on this, I feel: if not now, then probably not in my lifetime.Every...

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37 minutes ago Shane MacGowan’s wife Victoria Mary Clarke: ‘There were days when I felt suicidal after Shane died’

Exclusive: Artist, writer and long-term partner of the late Pogues frontman speaks about her grieving process a year on from his death, and how she’s channelled that into art for her first solo exhibition

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76 minutes ago Elderly woman dies after being surgically removed from mattress infested with cockroaches and bedbugs

Three women have been accused of neglecting an elderly woman after she was found dead, stuck to a mattress infested with cockroaches, bedbugs and feces in Massachusetts, USA

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97 minutes ago ‘We need a cultural revolution’: femicide victim’s family seek change in Italy

After Giulia Cecchettin was killed by her ex-boyfriend, her sister shook the national conscience when she challenged a ‘society steeped in rape culture’. She is still speaking outJust a day after being told that her sister Giulia was dead, Elena Cecchettin was interviewed on live TV outside the family home in Vigonovo, a small town close to Venice. Floral tributes were tied to the railings behind her, and a torchlight procession attended by thousands of well wishers was under way. But Elena was not looking for sympathy. “Don’t hold a minute of silence for Giulia – burn everything,” she said. “We need a cultural revolution to ensure that Giulia’s case is the last.”On 18 November 2023, Giulia Cecchettin, 22, became Italy’s 105th victim of femicide that year. Her body, with more than 70 st...

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1 hour ago Snow could well be on its way to parts of the UK with temperatures falling to a freezing

The UK is set to be hit by more cold weather next week and some areas could even see snow fall in the early hours of Wednesday, December 4, according to the latest weather maps

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2 hours ago No Barbenheimer: Wicked and Gladiator 2 succeed but ‘Glicked’ fails to match last year’s blockbuster mash

The ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator 2’ double-bill may not have lived up to 2023’s Barbenheimer hype, but it still managed to breathe life back into a struggling box office

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3 hours ago Risky Russell Wilson move has paid off for Denver Broncos as Bo Nix launches Rookie of the Year bid

The Denver Broncos parted ways with Russell Wilson after the 2023 season, incurring $85 million in dead cap to move on from the veteran QB

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3 hours ago Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki's 'most important lesson' revealed in final message she wrote while dying of cancer

Susan Wojcicki, once the CEO of YouTube, wrote a touching message shortly before she died from lung cancer this summer. In her final words, she revealed the 'most important lesson' she learned in her life.

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4 hours ago ‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and visit from RFK Jr

A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’The week before her three children died, Fa’aoso Tuivale and her husband took them for a swim in the river flowing behind their house in the Samoan village of Lauli’i.Itila, 3, and his twin siblings, Tamara and Sale, 13 months, had a fever and their parents hoped to cool them down. The children were ill with measles and were not vaccinated. When they worsened, on a Sunday, Fa’aoso took them to hospital in Apia, 9km away. They were seen, and sent home. Continue reading...

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