28 h. ago Progress unravelled, and millions left vulnerable: how British aid cuts threaten British health too | Sarah Champion

The UK faces a critical choice: follow the global trend of disengagement or stand firm in backing health securityRight now, aid reductions across the globe are jeopardising decades of progress against preventable diseases, leaving millions of people vulnerable. This retreat from global health threatens to unravel hard-won advances against diseases we have nearly conquered.Polio, which paralysed hundreds of thousands of children annually just 40 years ago, has been eliminated in most parts of the world. Meanwhile, there has been a resurgence of diseases such as measles and cholera in populations besieged by conflict and climate emergencies.Sarah Champion is the Labour MP for Rotherham Continue reading...

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48 h. ago A school shooting in the Austrian city of Graz leaves at least 8 people and suspected gunman dead

At least eight people were killed in a shooting at a school in the Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, and the suspected perpetrator also died, the city’s mayor said

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48 h. ago ‘They tell you every minor inconvenience’: bartenders on which generation has the worst behavior

Gen Z patrons have stopped opening bar tabs and can’t order quickly, but older customers’ etiquette isn’t perfect eitherGen Z are used to headlines about the things they’ve “killed”: writing in cursive, getting their driver’s licenses, knowing how printers work, wearing skinny jeans. Their latest offense, according to a recent New York Times article: opening bar tabs.Bartenders and drinkers alike spoke to the Times about young people’s hesitancy to leave their credit cards behind the bar, instead preferring to close out and pay after every single drink – no matter how many rounds they order. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago ‘They tell you every minor inconvenience’: US bartenders on which generation has the worst behavior

Gen Z patrons have stopped opening bar tabs and can’t order quickly, but older customers’ etiquette isn’t perfect eitherGen Z are used to headlines about the things they’ve “killed”: writing in cursive, getting their driver’s licenses, knowing how printers work, wearing skinny jeans. Their latest offense, according to a recent New York Times article: opening bar tabs.Bartenders and drinkers alike spoke to the Times about young people’s hesitancy to leave their credit cards behind the bar, instead preferring to close out and pay after every single drink – no matter how many rounds they order. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Covid variant: Symptoms you need to look out for as doctors issue warning

A new variant now spreading across Europe and multiple other continents could leave people with a host of unpleasant symptoms - that don't feel like classic Covid

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3 d. ago Crayon brainteaser leaves people baffled but there's an 'obvious' answer

It's important to keep your mind active throughout the day and one way to achieve this is by challenging yourself to a brainteaser – so why not give this crayon one a go?

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3 d. ago The ‘lovely’ seaside town near Greater Manchester where people ‘don’t want to leave’

The seaside town was once named one of the UK's best places to live

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4 d. ago ‘We are disappearing’: Britain’s first trans judge on Supreme Court defeat – and why she’s challenging it

Victoria McCloud was publicly promoted as a symbol of diversity in the justice system, but this year it changed her legal sex overnight. The Independent Pride List 2025 winner tells Emma Henderson how vulnerable trans people are leaving Britain and why she’s taking on the Supreme Court ruling in an even higher court

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5 d. ago Cheese factory 'chemical spill' leaves 17 people injured as hazard team respond

Emergency services were called to the site after the alarm was raised in the early hours of Saturday, June 7.

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6 d. ago I love the graffiti I see in Paris – but tagging is just visual manspreading | Alexander Hurst

Call me a middle-class ‘bobo’, but inspired street art has nothing in common with sprayed-on assertions of ‘me, me, me’Among the layers of life in Paris that energise me, I might list: peeling back the city’s music scene all the way to figuring out where, and when, the musicians go to jam together; the unassuming flair of even a basic brasserie; the way one can pivot, in the span of a week, from an art gallery opening to a friend’s concert to another friend’s restaurant to discover his Corsican-influenced menu, and end it by lingering on a terrace, “remaking the world” with others who challenge you – calmly – to see something a different way.Among the things about this city that exhaust me are the people who cram their way into the Métro without letting you step out first (seriously, what neurons are misfiring in the heads of these people?), and the sheer prevalence of tags. It’s when you leave Paris for a bit and come back that you realise how many tags there are. How swaths of a c...

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6 d. ago Fact check: More people leave than arrive on current youth mobility schemes

Current schemes, which are mainly with countries with smaller populations, might not accurately predict how future schemes will perform.

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6 d. ago Inside Ryanair flight from hell as scared passengers 'thrown against the ceiling' in storm

A plane journey from hell saw a pilot forced to abandon a journey due to extreme conditions – leaving nine people injured, including a two year old and a member of staff

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7 d. ago 'I own the UK's most haunted hotel and this is why people leave in the middle of the night'

My Haunted Hotel is now available to stream on Prime Video

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8 d. ago US remains ‘completely committed’ to Nato says secretary general ahead of Ukraine military aid meeting – Europe live

Mark Rutte comments on absence of US defense secretary Pete Hegseth from meeting about defence of UkraineMeanwhile in Cologne, Germany, the biggest evacuation since the second world war is under way after the discovery of three unexploded bombs dropped by allied forces 80 years ago.About 20,000 people are having to leave their homes and businesses, while hotels, a care home for elderly people and a hospital are being evacuated. Three bridges over the Rhine have been closed and rail traffic has been halted or diverted. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Weatherwatch: How 60 species are just one cyclone away from extinction

Hurricane Dorian killed off the Bahama nuthatch and more biodiversity hotspots are at risk from extreme weatherHurricane Dorian is thought to have been one of the worst natural disasters for the Bahamas, leaving at least 70,000 people homeless and causing more than $5bn (£3.7bn) in damage in 2019. But it wasn’t just people who suffered. For one forest dwelling songbird – the Bahama nuthatch – this hurricane spelled the end.Now a new study reveals that a significant number of species that are endemic to a single island, like the Bahama nuthatch, are at increasing risk of extinction from severe tropical cyclones, with an estimated 60 species potentially one cyclone away from being wiped out. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Major evacuation in Cologne after second world war bombs discovered

About 20,000 people relocated while allied munitions dropped on German city in 1940s are made safe The biggest evacuation in Cologne since the second world war is under way after the discovery of three unexploded bombs dropped by allied forces 80 years ago.About 20,000 people are having to leave their homes and businesses, while hotels, a care home for elderly people and a hospital are being evacuated. Three bridges over the Rhine have been closed and rail traffic has been halted or diverted. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Greece earthquake LIVE: Huge 6.2 tremor sees buildings sway as Turkey also hit

Rhodes has been hit by a mega 6.2-scale earthquake this morning, while Turkey was also rocked by a 5.8 quake that caused 69 people to jump from buildings leaving a 14-year-old dead

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9 d. ago ‘Something set him off’: Mass stabbing at Oregon homeless shelter leaves 11 people injured

Craig Smith, the executive director of the shelter, said the suspected attacker had just arrived at the facility a day earlier

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9 d. ago ‘Something set him off’: Mass stabbing at Orgon homeless shelter leaves 11 people injured

Craig Smith, the executive director of the shelter, said the suspected attacker had just arrived at the facility a day earlier

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9 d. ago House prices are dropping across London – but people are still having to leave the capital to buy

Several regions across the capital have seen dips over the last year

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