2 w. ago Health Secretary tells overweight voters they could save NHS £5billion a year by having one less fizzy drink a day

The government has estimated that if everyone reduced their diets by 216 calories a day - the equivalent of a bottle of fizzy drink - obesity rates would be halved.

Economics

3 w. ago Hero schoolboy tells how he saved girlfriend when her Muslim parents tried to strangle her in 'honor killing'

Ihsan Ali, 44, and his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, are charged with second-degree attempted murder and attempted kidnapping after the attack that was stopped by the girl's teen boyfriend.

Events

3 w. ago Delivery driver tells murder trial jury how he tried to save man's life

The prosecution say Joshua Norman died after being stabbed in the throat with a broken bottle

Events

3 w. ago Astonishing moment British survivor of Air India plane crash walks BACK towards flaming wreckage to rescue his brother, telling bystander: 'He's burning to death, I have to save him'

This is the dramatic moment the British man who was the miraculous sole survivor of the Air India plane crash attempted to return to the inferno of the accident to save his brother.

Events

4 w. ago Girl's harrowing account of how Muslim parents tried to strangle her in 'honor killing' outside American school

Ihsan Ali, 44, and his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, are charged with second-degree attempted murder and attempted kidnapping after the attack in Lacye, Washington, on October 18.

Events

last month ‘They entrusted me with their daughter’s memory’: Women’s prize winner Rachel Clarke on her story of a life

The Story of a Heart, which won this year’s award for nonfiction, tells how one child saved the life of another. The author talks about the amazing families involved, campaigning for a better NHS, and how being a doctor frames the way she writesTo read Rachel Clarke’s The Story of a Heart, which has won this year’s Women’s prize for nonfiction, is to experience an onslaught of often competing emotions. There is awed disbelief at the sheer skill and dedication of the medical teams who transplanted the heart of nine-year-old Keira, who had been killed in a head-on traffic collision, into the body of Max, a little boy facing almost certain death from rapidly deteriorating dilated cardiomyopathy. There is vast admiration for the inexhaustible compassion of the teams who cared for both children and their families, and wonder at the cascade of medical advances, each breakthrough representing determination, inspiration, rigorous work, and careful navigation of newly emerging ethical territ...

Politics