23 m. ago Flight cancellations and evacuations ordered as Typhoon Podul makes landfall in Taiwan

More than 5,500 people have been moved from vulnerable areas, some still recovering from storms earlier in the summer

Politics

36 m. ago Mapped: Where in the UK are people most at risk from potentially deadly heatwave?

New analysis shows thousands of young children, hospital patients and elderly people at risk as UK hit by fourth heatwave of summer

Events

41 m. ago USPS worker who stole checks from the mail arrested after flashing cash on social media

A Los Angeles postal worker has admitted to stealing people's checks and credit cards from their mail while flaunting stacks of cash on social media.

Economics

60 m. ago State Pension age set to rise next year for people with specific birthdates

The State Pension age will increase from 66 to 67 between 2026 and 2028.

Politics

83 m. ago Shooting stars visible across the UK in annual Perseid meteor shower

Every summer the Earth slams into a trail of debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet that also orbits the Sun

Events

90 m. ago Stop ankles swelling in heatwave due to 'trapped fluid' with expert's six tips

With Britain currently experiencing a heatwave, many people may be experiencing swelling in their feet and ankles - here's how to relieve the symptom, according to a nutritionist

Science

99 m. ago How did a British doctor suspected of killing 163 people walk away from The Old Bailey a free man?

Modern historians believe Bodkin Adams may have killed as many as 250 patients, rivalling even Harold Shipman's estimated victim count.

Events

1 hour ago Oslo Stories Trilogy: Love review – gracefully grownup and breezy relationships drama

Doctor Marianne wonders if her gay colleague Tor’s approach to dating would work for her, in the second film of Dag Johan Haugerud’s absorbing trilogyHere is the second of Norwegian film-maker and novelist Dag Johan Haugerud’s seductive trilogy about affairs of the heart and mind, set in Oslo. (It comes between Sex and Dreams.) It is a thoroughly grownup and absorbing drama, acted with such sympathy and warmth, a ruminative and exploratory movie of ideas, and one that pays its audience the compliment of treating them as intelligent beings. Love is about a familiar question: can straight people learn from or even absorb the open and polygamous approach to sex that appears to come easier to gay people (and perhaps younger people of all sexualities), perhaps specifically gay men? Or is that idea stereotypical and naive?Andrea Braein Hovig plays Marianne, a urology consultant whose job it is to give bad news to a succession of men about their prostate cancer. She is single (though her p...

Events

1 hour ago A moment that changed me: I resolved to reduce my screen time – and it was a big mistake

I was looking for liberation from the apps, but quitting them only made my life harder and turned me into a man obsessedI unlocked my iPhone screen at the precise moment that my weekly screen time notification appeared – accidentally dismissing it before I could take a screenshot – and promptly erupted into a rage. I had spent an excruciating week resolutely not looking at my phone, part of a month-long effort to whittle my daily screen time down from more than four hours a day to less than an hour, with the hope of improving my mental wellbeing (and possibly carving out a career as an inspirational speaker). But my efforts felt futile without being able to post evidence online about how offline I had become. I frantically Googled how to retrieve notifications (you cannot) and – briefly – considered re-creating my screen time report in Photoshop.Over the past decade or two, my efforts at self-improvement have taken various forms: the year where I read 105 books; the period during wh...

Politics

2 h. ago How dangerous are wildfires and how can we stop them from getting worse?

The conditions for ferocious fires are expected to worsen as the planet heats up, putting more people at riskWith bigger and stronger wildfires becoming more common as Europe swelters in record-breaking heat, people will need to adapt and learn how to stay safe. Continue reading...

Events

2 h. ago The time capsule photos of a 'lucky' Scottish village and its people

There can be few villages in Scotland as well documented as St Monans.

Culture

2 h. ago Man City have £50million reasons to hope they were wrong about Jack Grealish

Jack Grealish has the chance to take centre stage at Everton and show what people have been saying about him for years

Economics

3 h. ago Archaeologists perplexed to find West African ancestry in early medieval England

Findings show clear signs of non-European ancestry of buried individuals with affinity to present-day groups living in sub-Saharan West Africa

Events

4 h. ago Personal health budget explained as Labour plans to ‘double’ users in the next few years

The NHS funding allows people to take control and cover the cost of their care and support needs

Politics

4 h. ago Inside Jalisco Mexican 'young team' cartel primed for new wave of evil and torture

Fledgling cartel numbers reach more than 30k as young people in poverty are lured into a life of crime and murder by the promise of riches.

Politics

4 h. ago Older people living on their own could be due annual State Pension boost of £4,300

Pension Credit claims can be backdated by up to three months.

Economics

8 h. ago People 'urged' to check if they're owed an average of 3,800 for simple mistake

People who access their pension could be entitled to significant cashback

Politics

8 h. ago Elderly woman's 6am nightmare as major change to online support announced

People across Britain will be supported to get online to stop them missing out on basics like receiving emails or getting cheaper train tickets or house insurance

Politics

9 h. ago Almost three quarters of people ignore calorie labels when ordering takeaways – poll

77% of people didn’t even realise that any calorie information was available during their most recent online takeaway purchase

Politics

9 h. ago ‘It’s a horrible picture’: Gaza faces new threat from antibiotic

Fatal infections more likely due to malnutrition, injuries and lack of medical facilities under Israel’s blockadeGaza is facing a new threat as diseases resistant to antibiotics spread across the devastated territory, research has revealed.Medical supplies are desperately scarce and tens of thousands of people have been injured in the 22-month war, while many others have been weakened by malnutrition, so the high levels of drug-resistant bacteria will mean longer and more serious illnesses, a more rapid transmission of infectious diseases and more deaths, experts said. Continue reading...

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