57 h. ago Deadly Victorian disease in contaminated 'holy water' leaves Brits in hospital

Brit tourists have brought back cholera to the UK after catching the deadly bacterial disease from holy water which was bottled from the sacred Bermel Giorgis well in Ethiopia

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65 h. ago Scots mum's swim in contaminated water leaves her hospitalised for five days

Shelley Sim became seriously unwell after swimming in the sea, which has left her fearful.

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67 h. ago Brits face soggy Easter as floods and travel chaos hit UK over bank holiday weekend

UK weather has taken a swift turn as the balmy days of last weekend are behind us as torrential rain and flood warnings are put in place by Met Office forecasters

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5 d. ago Brits holiday hell as Lanzarote in state of emergency after floods see cars submerged

Rainfall began on Saturday afternoon and didn't stop for two hours, leaving many streets flooded with brown water and riverbanks bursting as water levels rose too high

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5 d. ago London leaver: 'I didn’t want my girls growing up feeling scared'

A brush with an armed gang while pregnant prompted this family’s move to Surrey

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6 d. ago Moment hotel boss chucks water over drunk man snoozing in her front garden

Lisa Bell, who owns the Regency Hotel in Blackpool, was forced into drastic action to attempt to make a drunk man leave her front garden by pouring cold water over him

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1 week ago It could take weeks for flood waters to leave part of the Ohio Valley after ‘1,000

Additional evacuations could happen in western Kentucky this week

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2 w. ago Deadly spring storm forces water rescues and fuels tornados leaving a deadly path of destruction in its wake

The ‘generational flooding event’ has forced water rescues in Tennessee and Kentucky

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2 w. ago Instant karma as man yanks 10ft croc's tail before the beast snaps back and sinks its jaws into his arm

Border security guard Simson Paulus, 41, who was by the Etaka waterhole in Epalela, Namibia, ignored repeated warnings to leave the 10-foot Nile crocodile alone.

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2 w. ago Gardeners urged to leave out tray of water in gardens during April

Gardeners are being urged to leave out water for hedgehogs this April, as the spiky creatures will be waking from their winter slumber and desperate for something to drink

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3 w. ago US consumer confidence hit by tariff fears; Thames Water’s finance chief leaving within days – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsOver in Germany, the number of people out of work has risen at the fastest rate since October of 2024.The German labour office said the number of unemployed increased by 26,000 in seasonally adjusted terms to 2.92 million. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected that figure to rise by 10,000.“March marks the start of the so-called spring recovery on the labour market. This year, however, the economic slump is noticeably slowing it down.”One bright spot was the impressive 1.9% q/q (CE forecast 0.7% q/q) rise in consumers’ real incomes in Q4. The 4.2% rise in 2024 as a whole suggests households experienced the strongest real income growth in nine years.With consumer spending hardly rising, at 12.0% in Q4 (up from 10.3% in Q3), the saving rate remains unusually high, suggesting households are choosing to save rather than spend the bulk of those gains. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Tariff uncertainty risks ‘significant economic damage’; Thames Water’s finance chief leaving within days – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsOver in Germany, the number of people out of work has risen at the fastest rate since October of 2024.The German labour office said the number of unemployed increased by 26,000 in seasonally adjusted terms to 2.92 million. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected that figure to rise by 10,000.“March marks the start of the so-called spring recovery on the labour market. This year, however, the economic slump is noticeably slowing it down.”One bright spot was the impressive 1.9% q/q (CE forecast 0.7% q/q) rise in consumers’ real incomes in Q4. The 4.2% rise in 2024 as a whole suggests households experienced the strongest real income growth in nine years.With consumer spending hardly rising, at 12.0% in Q4 (up from 10.3% in Q3), the saving rate remains unusually high, suggesting households are choosing to save rather than spend the bulk of those gains. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Weather tracker: Severe thunderstorms threaten flooding in northern Australia

A broad trough has dragged in warm, moist air and offers perfect ingredients for heavy rainfall and even supercellsNorthern parts of Australia have been under a flood warning this weekend, with further flooding set to bring havoc to south-eastern parts of the Northern Territory and western Queensland early this week. A broad trough – an area of locally lower pressure – has been moving across northern Australia, dragging in warm, moist air from the Gulf of Carpentaria and providing the perfect ingredients for the formation of severe thunderstorms, and even supercells.More than 70mm (2.75in) of rain fell in an hour under the slow-moving storms over the weekend in what is usually an arid, low rainfall zone with a desert/grassland climate classification. Some parts of the region have sparse observation data, but some local stations have been able to record more than 100mm within 24 hours, with 132mm of rain at Marion Downs, Queensland. Continue reading...

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