7 h. ago Tens of thousands of women forced to travel out of state for abortion care after Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022

More than 325,000 abortion patients were forced to leave their home state for legal care in the years after the decision

Transport

24 h. ago Electric cars that crash in value in a year: Some are worth just a THIRD of their new price after 12 months

Some electric cars are suffering such catastrophic depreciation that they shed tens of thousands of pounds after just a year. Here's a countdown of the 20 models losing value quickest.

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27 h. ago Noise pollution harms health of millions across Europe, report finds

About 110 million people suffer stress and sleep disturbance that lead to tens of thousands of early deathsMore than 110 million people across Europe suffer high levels of health-damaging noise pollution, according to a report. The resulting physiological stress and sleep disturbance leads to 66,000 early deaths a year and many cases of heart disease, diabetes and depression.The report, from the European Environment Agency (EEA), focuses on noise from cars, trains and aeroplanes and found that 20% of the population of the European Economic Area (EEA) were affected. Separate research, using a slightly lower threshold for dangerous noise pollution, found that 40% of the UK population were exposed to harmful transport noise. Continue reading...

Science

33 h. ago Penny Lancaster has revealed the kind words King Charles said to help her confidence and make her feel 'more than just Rod's wife'

She is a former panellist on ITV's Loose Women, a model and works for the Police force.

Politics

40 h. ago Abortions in the US are on the rise three years after Roe v Wade was overturned

A growing number of abortions happen through telehealth – including for women in states with strict bansThree years after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, erasing the national right to abortion and paving the way for more than a dozen states to ban the procedure, the number of abortions performed in the US is still on the rise – including in some states that ban the procedure.US abortion providers performed 1.14m abortions in 2024, according to new data released on Monday by #WeCount, a Society of Family Planning project that has tracked abortion provision since 2022. That’s the highest number on record in recent years. Continue reading...

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41 h. ago ‘Helpless and trapped’: political prisoners stuck in Tehran jail with no way to flee bombings

Families of detained activists talk of their fear and confusion as Israeli missiles strike Evin prison in IranWhen Mehraveh Khandan heard about Israel’s evacuation order in Tehran last week, the first thing she thought of was her father. Reza Khandan, imprisoned for his human rights activism in 2024, was sitting in a cell in Tehran’s Evin prison on the edge of the evacuation zone.She fielded calls from her friends, who were breathless from the shock of the Israeli bombs as tens of thousands fled the Iranian capital. Her father, by contrast, had no way to flee. He was stuck. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago The pantry biohacker: I reduced my biological age by 10 YEARS with easy diet changes anyone can do

You don't need to be a Silicon Valley venture capitalist or spend tens of thousands on supplements and biohacking gadgets to reclaim your health.

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46 h. ago Cancer breakthrough could transform chemotherapy success rates in UK

Tens of thousands of cancer patients going through gruelling chemotherapy could have DNA test to predict which form of the drug most likely to kill their cancer

Politics

46 h. ago Barbados poet laureate on mission to share stories of enslavement

Esther Phillips says her poetry’s ‘ultimate goal’ is to achieve justice for those who suffered at hands of European colonisersEsther Phillips, the Barbados poet laureate, grew up next to Drax Hall Estate, once one of the Caribbean’s notoriously violent slave plantations, where tens of thousands of Africans are said to have died in terrible conditions during the transatlantic slave trade. But she was well into her career when the harsh realities of slavery hit home.The poet began writing at a young age, and was inspired at first by the “trees, flowers, birds, the smells of the plants or shrubs, the air, the cane fields” she encountered as she walked to school. Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago Posh schoolboy who plotted suicide bomb attack on shopping centre could walk free

Isa Ibrahim was educated at posh schools that cost his parents tens of thousands every year, but he spiralled out of control and was jailed after planning to bomb a shopping centre

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4 d. ago The 'trusted enabler' who controlled the lives of trafficked Hungarian women forced into prostitution

Laszlo Matus drove the women to brothels in Oldham and Bolton

Politics

4 d. ago Diddy scores trial win as 'drug mule' witness says women were NOT forced into freak

LIVE UPDATES: Prosecutors prepare to call their final witness to the stand in Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial. The defense will present its case next.

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6 d. ago Tributes paid to charity worker found fatally stabbed in her London home

Annabel Rook, 46, who helped refugees and women fleeing domestic violence, described as ‘profound force for good’A woman found fatally stabbed in her home after a gas explosion has been described as a “profound force for good” who dedicated her life to supporting women.Annabel Rook, 46, was found with stab wounds at a house in Dumont Road, Stoke Newington, north London, just before 5am on Tuesday. Continue reading...

Events

6 d. ago Israel ‘must win every war’ | Along the Green Line: episode 2 – video

In the second episode of Along the Green Line, reporter Matthew Cassel heads north to the occupied West Bank, visiting Tulkarm, a Palestinian city under siege by Israeli forces. Tens of thousands of residents have been forced from their homes, but just over the border in Israel, residents here are experiencing a very different reality.In this three-part series we're traveling along the 1949 Armistice line or ‘Green Line,’ - once seen as the best hope for a resolution - and meeting Palestinians and Israelis living just kilometres apart. Continue reading...

Politics

6 d. ago Why Cambodia and Thailand continue to fight over border and what happens next

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh on Wednesday for a march to show their solidarity with the government and military, amid soaring tensions with neighboring Thailand following a border row that erupted last month

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7 d. ago What are Trump's options to attack Iran?: How US has tens of thousands of troops in bases across the Middle East

Iran has threatened to drag the United States into the conflict by attacking their bases in the region should Washington intervene on Israel's behalf.

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8 d. ago The 'abandoned' Brits trapped in Israel: Pressure on Foreign Office to evacuate UK nationals who say they are stranded in Middle East war zone while other countries rush to bring citizens home

Tens of thousands of UK nationals are believed to be stranded after Israel shut its airspace amid the escalating conflict with Iran .

Events

8 d. ago Ice raids in LA continue as armed agents target immigrant communities

Mayor of Montebello, a suburb east of LA with 79% Latino population, said: ‘This is racial profiling’US immigration raids continued to target southern California communities in recent days, including at a popular flea market and in a Los Angeles suburb where US citizens were detained.On Saturday, as mass protests swept the nation, including tens of thousands demonstrating in LA, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents descended on a swap meet in Santa Fe Springs in southeast LA county. Video showed dozens of heavily armed, masked officers carrying out the raid before a scheduled concert at the long-running event that features vendors, food and entertainment every weekend Continue reading...

Events

8 d. ago Two camper vans and a VW Beetle are submerged by the waves on Welsh beach within days of each other after owners 'ignored warnings of fast tide'

The vehicles suffered the same fate within days of each other at scenic Black Rock Sands near Porthmadog - sending tens of thousands of pounds down the drain.

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8 d. ago Scots can avoid bad breath during festival season with Scottish Dental Group's top tips

As tens of thousands gear up for the mud, music and mayhem of Glastonbury Festival, Clyde Munro Dental Group is urging festival goers not to forget about their dental health. With hygiene routines often sacrificed, Head of Clinical, Charlie Evans says even just a few days of ditching the toothbrush can lead to unhealthy changes in your mouth.

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