8 h. ago California utility to pay $82 million settlement in lawsuit stemming from huge 2020 wildfire

A California utility has agreed to pay the federal government $82.5 million stemming from an enormous 2020 wildfire that churned through mountains northeast of Los Angeles and into the Mojave Desert

Economics

11 h. ago Sanction on Harvard's foreign students strikes at the heart of the university's global allure

For students around the world, an acceptance letter to Harvard University has represented the pinnacle of achievement

Events

13 h. ago Amanda Holden reveals family's view on bikini pics as she targets 'new marriage'

Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden has joked she should marry her Heart Radio co-star Ashley Roberts as she's the perfect holiday companion and 'loves' her kids

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16 h. ago ‘Global red alert’: forest loss hits record high – and Latin America is the heart of the inferno

With little state support, villagers are left to battle wildfires armed with little more than shovels and bottles of water • Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last yearWildfires engulfed vast swathes of South America last year, devastating ecosystems, closing schools and grounding flights. With its worst fire season on record, Bolivia was especially hard hit. “We felt powerless and angry to be unable to protect what is ours,” says Isabel Surubí Pesoa.Surubí Pesoa was forced to migrate to the nearest town after the spring that fed her village in Bolivia’s eastern lowlands dried up after the fires and the drought that preceded it. “It’s very painful,” she says. Continue reading...

Events

16 h. ago Jamie Theakston 'so pleased' cancer diagnosis came after his mum died

The 54-year-old co-presenter of the Heart Radio breakfast show was diagnosed with stage one laryngeal cancer

Events

17 h. ago ‘My legal work sows the seeds of my stories’: International Booker prize winner Banu Mushtaq

The author and activist, who was subject to a fatwa in 2000, has won the prestigious prize for translated fiction for her short stories about the lives of Muslim women. She and her translator Deepa Bhasthi explain how Heart Lamp’s themes ‘are universal’• ‘Radical translation’ of Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker prize‘Human beings and their basic nature are the same everywhere,” Banu Mushtaq says. “That is the intention of my writing. The theme is woman, the theme is marginalised people, the theme is to be a voice to the voiceless community.”Mushtaq, from the Karnataka region of southern India, has been “awake all night”, she says, as we speak on the morning after she won the International Booker prize in London for her book Heart Lamp. The prize is shared between Mushtaq and her translator Deepa Bhasthi, who is also present – and also had no sleep. Continue reading...

Politics

17 h. ago Former Wales rugby international Mark Jones dies aged 59 as tributes pour in

Mark Jones has passed away after suffering a heart attack in Qatar

Events

18 h. ago Jamie Theakston in tears as he tells Davina McCall of 'huge shock' of diagnosis

The Heart Radio DJ, 54, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of laryngeal cancer last year and subsequently underwent three operations

Events

19 h. ago Jeremy Clarkson shares 'stressful' symptoms before being 'close to death' in hospital dash

Jeremy Clarkson, 65, underwent heart surgery in October and had two stents fitted, but had no clue how ill he actually was as he was 'working very hard'

Events

19 h. ago Scientists pinpoint how many hours sleep will increase your risk of heart disease

A new study has shed light on exactly how a lack of sleep causes harm

Events

19 h. ago Beautiful pub will spark new life into the heart of this Welsh town, but it could have been so different

The Pencelli Hotel, which is rumoured to have been a favourite haunt of Hollywood royalty, has had a glamorous makeover - but it stood in ruin and faced a dull and predictable future

Politics

20 h. ago Ellie Simmonds' birth mum breaks down in tears as she explains why she gave her up

Former Paralympian swimming champion Ellie Simmonds has a heart-to-heart with her birth mum in an emotional episode of an ITV documentary, where she is seen breaking down in tears

Politics

21 h. ago AD FEATURE: 200 jobs for 200 years: phenomenal University of Manchester initiative places struggling communities at the heart of a life

In the wake of its bicentenary celebrations, the university has supported more than 200 people into meaningful employment

Politics

21 h. ago 'I can't go on': Olly Murs sparks health concern as he walks off stage after just 20 minutes

In a video posted to Instagram stories, the 41-year-old offered his audience an apology ‘from the bottom of my heart’, and said he was ‘so sorry’

Politics

21 h. ago Scots woman who dedicated life to helping others dies suddenly after heart attack

Tallat Haq had been feeling unwell with suspected food poisoning for three days before she was rushed to hospital by her concerned younger brother, Niaz, last week.

Events

25 h. ago Scot thrown in hell hole Caribbean jail 'for forcing ill wife to go to work'

Michael Breslin is being held on remand in Puerto Rico's notorious Bayamón Correctional Complex, which is plagued by gangs and drugs and has seen crooked prison guards and escapees.

Events

27 h. ago British boy, four, dies after being pulled from Tenerife hotel swimming pool

The heart-breaking incident took place on Thursday afternoon in San Miguel de Abona, a popular holiday spot in the south of the island.

Events

28 h. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry at Minerva Theatre, Chichester: A tearjerking musical trek...go armed with Kleenex

Rachel Joyce's highly emotional 2012 best-seller which has now become a musical about Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage to make up with an old friend dying in a hospice 500 miles away.

Events

29 h. ago The Turkish hospital at centre of negligence probe over death of young British mother, 28, who mysteriously died while on holiday before her heart was removed by doctors

This is the Istanbul hospital where Portsmouth mother-of-two Beth Martin took her last breath - less than two days after she began to feel unwell on the way to Turkey.

Events

32 h. ago Family decimated after mum dies on Turkey holiday and has heart 'taken'

Beth Martin, 28, complained that she "felt unwell" on April 28, and tragically passed away the following morning.

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