50 h. ago US public health officials vigilant as newer mpox variant detected

Risk to general public is low but cases in California suggest virus is spreading undetected in some communitiesA newer variant of mpox, the virus formerly known as monkeypox, is now spreading through some communities in the US and Europe.The risk to the general public is low, but community transmission in new places signals greater challenges for public health to detect cases and stop the spread. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago This charming market town has mountain walks, shops and a proper pub that celebs love

I'll admit it, I've got to an age where I love a jaunt to a lovely market town for coffee and cake, boutique shops and picturesque walks.

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3 d. ago Standing on their own: Cricket World Cup highlights drive to reclaim public space for Indian women | Emma John

As India’s most popular sport, cricket offers a forum to help change attitudes – educating men and empowering womenIf there was any better sight than India’s cricketers celebrating victory over Australia on Thursday, it was that of their supporters doing the same. For several hours, the nerves of the 35,000 spectators in Mumbai’s DY Patil Stadium – most wearing Indian blue – had jangled in sympathy. As the home team booked themselves into Sunday’s Cricket World Cup final, the TV cameras picked out the men and women in the stands caught up in the flood of delight and relief. It was more than a moment of triumph – it was a vision of solidarity.But let’s leave the stands, now, and head to the city streets of Indore, the largest city in the state of Madhya Pradesh. It’s here that a pair of Australia players were sexually harassed as they walked from their hotel to a nearby cafe, the morning after last week’s game against England. They reported the incident, there was an immediate invest...

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4 d. ago Wales' 'most picturesque railway line' with waterfalls and mountains reopens

The Conwy Valley Line in North Wales is one of the most scenic train routes in the UK, running through the deep valleys of Blaenau Ffestiniog, past a wildlife-rich estuary and along the gentle slopes and magnificent rock formations of this stunning patch of North West Wales

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6 d. ago ‘DeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines’: my mother’s worrying reliance on AI for health advice

Tired of a two-day commute to see her overworked doctor, my mother turned to tech for help with her kidney disease. She bonded with the bot so much I was scared she would refuse to see a real medicThis essay was originally published on Rest of worldEvery few months, my mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, embarks on a two-day journey to see her doctor. She fills her backpack with a change of clothes, a stack of medical reports and a few boiled eggs to snack on. Then, she takes a 90-minute ride on a high-speed train and checks into a hotel in the eastern metropolis of Hangzhou.At 7am the next day, she lines up with hundreds of others to get her blood taken in a long hospital hall that buzzes like a crowded marketplace. In the afternoon, when the lab results arrive, she makes her way to a specialist’s clinic. She gets about three minutes with the doctor. Maybe five, if she’s lucky. He skims the lab reports and quickly types a new ...

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6 d. ago ‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen?Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned.In his only interview before next month’s Cop30 climate summit, António Guterres acknowledged it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target in the Paris climate agreement, with “devastating consequences” for the world.This interview is also published in English, Portuguese and Spanish by Sumaúma. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Wales stars reveal what happened with 'freak' Rhys Carre and Warren Gatland

The Saracens prop has been included in a Wales squad for the first time since 2023, when he was very publicly axed from Gatland's Rugby World Cup squad

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9 d. ago Tiny market town could be the best place to charity shop in the country

The town has a rich history and is home to a number of charities

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1 week ago New Zealand ‘mega strike’: 100,000 public sector workers demand better conditions

Teachers, nurses and public service staff among those walking off job and also pressing for more government investment in health and educationAn estimated 100,000 nurses, teachers and public sector staff walked off the job in New Zealand on Thursday to call on the government to better fund and resource public services, in one of the country’s largest ever strikes.The so-called “mega strike” brought together workers from multiple sectors, including more than 60,000 school teachers, 40,000 nurses and salaried medical specialists and 15,000 public service staff. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Fide to investigate Kramnik over attacks on Naroditsky as chess reels from player’s death

Chess world mourns 29-year-old streaming pioneerKramnik criticized for reckless cheating accusationsFide CEO’s statement prompts calls for resignationThe International Chess Federation (Fide) said on Wednesday it is examining former world champion Vladimir Kramnik’s public attacks on Daniel Naroditsky, the American grandmaster whose sudden death at 29 has stunned the chess world and laid bare fissures in the sport’s digital age.Naroditsky, among the most visible faces of chess’s pandemic-era renaissance, was one of the most popular players and teachers of his generation, a Stanford-educated prodigy who won the Under-12 world championship, became a grandmaster at 18 and went on to amass more than 800,000 followers across Twitch and YouTube. Known by his nickname Danya, the California-born Naroditsky’s mix of patience, humor, generosity and gift for communication made him a standard-bearer of chess’s online boom, helping to bring vast new audiences to a centuries-old pastime. Continue...

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2 w. ago World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer

Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuildingMargot Raggett has spent the past decade raising money for conservation efforts around the world but, right now, she feels nervous about the future. “It does feel like we’ve taken a backward step,” she said.The wildlife photographer has raised £1.2m for the cause in the past 10 years through her Remembering Wildlife series, an annual, not-for-profit picture book featuring images of animals from the world’s top nature photographers. The first edition was published in 2015, when the Paris climate agreement was being drafted but, in the years since, efforts to tackle the climate crisis have been rolled back. Continue reading...

Culture

2 w. ago Sculpture by the Sea 2025: from troubled waters to Bondi beach – in pictures

The world’s largest free-to-the-public sculpture exhibition is on again along Sydney’s Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk after surviving a funding shortfall Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Popular grocery chain recalls ice cream after a possibly ‘serious or life

Publix said French Vanilla ice cream was mistakenly labeled as Vanilla, risking severe allergic reactions from eggs

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2 w. ago Carol Kirkwood 'reduced to tears behind the scenes at BBC' as she admits her smiley public image and private struggles are worlds apart

One of the BBC's most familiar faces has opened up about the private struggles she has faced off-air, which she says are world apart from her happy on-screen persona.

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2 w. ago What £3.25million can buy you in the North vs in London: Eggleston Hall complete with 16 farms, 13 bedrooms and walled gardens hits the market for the same price as a tiny flat in Mayfair

Walled gardens, stables and 13 bedrooms are all included at Eggleston Hall, in County Durham, for a price tag of £3.25million - which is also the same sum for a one-bedroom flat in Mayfair.

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2 w. ago Ricky Hatton inquest: Everything we know about cause of death ahead of hearing

Ricky Hatton will have his cause of death publicly disclosed today as an inquest into the former boxing world champion's tragic passing gets underway in Manchester

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2 w. ago Trump condones public executions by Hamas, comparing victims to US strikes on Venezuelan ‘drug boats’

‘It didn’t bother me much to be honest with you,’ Trump told reporters in Washington D.C.

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2 w. ago I got a first look at London Zoo’s new immersive experience ZooTown before it opens to the public this weekend

I got a first look at London Zoo’s new immersive experience ZooTown before it opens to the public this weekend  Time Out Worldwide

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2 w. ago ‘As new infections outpace new drugs, are we sleepwalking into a global health disaster?’ | Dr Manica Balasegaram

Much of the political momentum around the antimicrobial resistance crisis has dissipated, but a new report shows the danger to our health has notMuch like the well-known climate threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius, the importance of critical limits in our environment have long been understood as key to help us avoid calamities. So, when we know the world is facing an escalating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis, but there has been no definitive tipping point established, that leaves us on a potentially perilous path.This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a report that suggests we may have now reached such a critical threshold. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Damage is done’: Mass firings and dysfunction at CDC spark chaos for public health, critics warn

The firings of hundreds of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and their sudden reinstatement after an “error” sent layoff notices to critical staff, has sparked chaos at the nation’s public health agency, which has endured a hectic 10 months under Donald Trump’s administration.

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