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Student, 23, who lost all four limbs to sepsis calls on people to get meningitis vaccine

A medical student who lost all four limbs due to sepsis has called on people to get the meningitis vaccine to help prevent them...

World

What aid has entered Gaza – and where is it going?

The first aid trucks have begun entering Gaza after 78 days of Israeli blockade. The United Nations said nine trucks were given permission to...

Musk says he will remain Tesla CEO and plans to cut back on political spending

Elon Musk has said he is committed to remaining as Tesla’s chief executive for at least five years, as the electric carmaker faces pressure...

‘Khan Younis looks like Stalingrad’: British doctor in Gaza describes horror – and has message for world leaders

A British doctor working in Gaza has urged world leaders to “stop talking and do something” as he described how people are starving and...

Business

HSBC ‘being attacked all the time’ by online criminals – as boss ‘kept awake at night’ by cyber threat

The boss of one of the UK’s biggest banks says it is being attacked “all the time” by online criminals and he is kept...

Science

Scientists Transform Lead into Gold, But Only for a Fleeting Moment

Medieval alchemists would have been stunned to see lead turned into gold – but that’s what scientists at CERN’s Awesomely Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have...

Science

Scientists Discover Three-Eyed Sea Moth From Half a Billion Years Ago

Scientists have discovered a half a million years old three eyed “sea moth” from a cache of museum fossils in Canada. These finger-sized feisty...

Science

NASA’s LROC Captures ispace RESILIENCE Landing Site Ahead of June 2025 Lunar Touchdown

NASA’s LROC (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera) has taken high resolution picture of the landing area for the ispace SMBC and HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lunar...

Science

Canadian Astrophotographer Captures Breathtaking Sunflower Galaxy

Canada based Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher has captured a stunning view of the Messier 63 or the ‘Sunflower Galaxy’ . Brecher’s deep-sky portrait reveals incredible...

Politics

Shouts of ‘genocide’ in Commons as David Lammy denounces Israel’s ‘intolerable’ actions in Gaza

The foreign secretary has denounced Israel’s actions in Gaza as “intolerable” but stopped short of saying it had committed genocide. MPs could be heard...

Is Trump walking away from peace in Ukraine?

👉 Follow Trump100 on your podcast app 👈 After weeks of stalemate and growing frustration, Donald Trump has spoken on the phone with President...

Sports

No QBs allowed: We name the 25 best non-QB players for 2025

Adam RittenbergMay 20, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions A good...

Shouts of ‘genocide’ in Commons as David Lammy denounces Israel’s ‘intolerable’ actions in Gaza

The foreign secretary has denounced Israel’s actions in Gaza as “intolerable” but stopped short of saying it had committed genocide. MPs could be heard...

Environment

Trump allows New York offshore wind project after apparent gas pipeline compromise with state

File: The wind farm in the Baltic Sea 35 kilometres northeast of Rügen is a joint venture of the Essen-based energy group Eon and...

Politics

Second man charged and appears in court over fires at properties and car linked to Sir Keir Starmer

A second man has appeared in court charged in connection with a series of fires linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Romanian national...

Politics

‘Brexit wounds’ mean EU states want to limit UK’s access to rearmament fund, Sky News told

Britain should have access to the EU’s rearmament fund before the end of the year but “wounds of Brexit” mean some member states want...

Politics

Lucy Connolly: Wife of former Tory councillor loses appeal against sentence for racial hatred post

The wife of a former Conservative councillor has lost her appeal against her 31-month sentence after being jailed for an online rant about migrants...

Politics

Use of e-gates by British holidaymakers in EU still not guaranteed, minister suggests

The use of e-gates by British holidaymakers in the European Union is still not guaranteed, a minister has indicated. Following six months of talks,...

Kyra Hill: Girl, 11, who drowned at Liquid Leisure waterpark was unlawfully killed, coroner finds

An 11-year-old girl who drowned at a waterpark was unlawfully killed, a coroner has found. Kyra Hill died after getting into difficulty in a...

Business

Steel tycoon Gupta in last-ditch bid to rescue UK empire

The steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta is mounting a last-ditch bid to salvage his British operations after seeing an emergency plea for government support rejected....