4 h. ago Texas measles cases rises to 146 in an outbreak that led to a child's death

Texas health officials say the number of people with measles has increased to 146 in rural West Texas outbreak that led this week to the death of a school-aged child who was not vaccinated

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9 h. ago US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’

USAid cuts to clinics dispensing antiretroviral drugs will be ‘death sentence for mothers and children’, expert warnsSweeping notices of termination of funding have been received by organisations working with HIV and Aids across Africa, with dire predictions of a huge rise in deaths as a result.After the US announced a permanent end to funding for HIV projects, services across the board have been affected, say doctors and programme managers, from projects helping orphans and pregnant women to those reaching transgender individuals and sex workers. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Gene Hackman's children share statement on mysterious death as police investigate 'suspicious' scene

LATEST UPDATES: Legendary Hollywood star Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa have been found dead in their Santa Fe home.

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26 h. ago Measles tracker: These US states have reported cases of the ‘eliminated’ condition

The first death from measles since 2015 was reported in an unvaccinated child in Texas this week

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32 h. ago Gene Hackman's heartbreaking confession about children before his death

Gene Hackman, the two-time Oscar-winning actor, was found dead at his home on February 27, 2025, at the age of 95, alongside his wife, Betsy Arakawa, and their dog.

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34 h. ago Gene Hackman's heartbreaking confession about his children before shock death

Gene Hackman, the two-time Oscar-winning actor, passed away on February 27, 2025, at 95. He often regretted not being more present for his children due to his acting career.

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36 h. ago As measles cases mount in the US, what’s the situation worldwide?

The U.S. registered its first death from measles since 2015 this week, as a child who wasn’t vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas

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50 h. ago First person dies of measles in Texas outbreak that has made more than 120 people sick

School-aged child’s death is the first from measles in U.S. since 2015

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50 h. ago Unvaccinated child becomes first death in Texas measles outbreak that has sickened more than 120 people

School-aged child’s death is the first from measles in U.S. since 2015

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4 d. ago Police watchdog probes death of ‘child attacker’, 45, restrained by officers in south London

IOPC Director Amanda Rowe: ‘Our thoughts are with all those affected by his death’

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6 d. ago If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt

Deaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel developmentIf you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people around the world, what would you say? Malaria perhaps? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all high up there, but no, it’s road accidents.Cars have been around for more than 120 years, and we know how to prevent these tragedies. Yet road crashes still claim more than two lives every minute – killing nearly 1.2 million people every year. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Murderer who stabbed the teenage mother of his child to death in front of horrified commuters at train station is jailed for life

A murderer who stabbed the teenage mother of his child to death in front of horrified commuters at a train station has been jailed for life.

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9 d. ago Pregnant TV star dies after sharing heartbreaking final message with fans

Actress and former Miss Asia World, Angy Morad, has tragically died aged 33 from a viral infection while pregnant with her second child. She shared a heartbreaking message just days before her death

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1 week ago ‘History was attempted to be buried’: the true story behind Oscar

Director RaMell Ross details horrors behind Florida School for Boys that backdropped the moving film adaptationIt was one of the darkest, most shameful episodes in Florida’s grotesque history of state-sanctioned racism: dozens of children, most of them Black, beaten or shot to death, or sexually abused in a decades-long reign of terror at a secretive and remote reform school.Early next month at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, the horrors that befell the students of the notorious Arthur G Dozier School for Boys will be laid bare before the world, courtesy of a best picture nomination for the “transcendentally moving and frightening film” Nickel Boys, and a best adapted screenplay nod for director RaMell Ross and his co-writer, Joslyn Barnes. Continue reading...

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