Getty Images Home health tests bought by people seeking answers about their conditions could give inaccurate and misleading results and require much greater regulation to ensure they are safe, reliable, and effective, researchers have warned. From bowel cancer to the menopause, shop-bought health kits now test for a wide range of conditions and are readily […]
Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, under renovation. Utah is among a growing number of states pressing cities to build more affordable housing. Adele Heidenreich/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Adele Heidenreich/Getty Images SALT LAKE CITY — It’s almost dinner time and the smell of creole seasoning fills the kitchen of Grace Cunningham and […]
Getty Images The researchers hope their findings could shape future public health guidelines Walking 7,000 steps a day can be enough to boost your brainpower and help protect against a range of different diseases, a major study suggests. It may be a more realistic target than 10,000 steps, which is often seen as the benchmark […]
Heavy rain plagued Charleston, South Carolina on Thursday morning as a non-tropical area of low pressure moves up the coast. CHARLESTON, S.C. – Newsportual Weather Service office in Charleston will soon implement new criteria for issuing Flood Advisories and Flash Flood Warnings, in an effort to improve consistency and enhance public understanding when flooding dangers […]
Google The Welsh government’s Cardiff HQ in Cathays Park averaged 19% of staff working there daily in March The Welsh government “can’t justify continuing to hold offices open if people don’t turn up” to work in them, First Minister Eluned Morgan has warned. Ministers aim to have staff working from the office two days a […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Artwork: The new system predicts missing text from broken inscriptions, their date and original location A new AI tool has the potential to turbocharge our understanding of all human history, researchers say. Artificial intelligence has already been used to fill in gaps in ancient Roman scrolls, but a new system […]
At least 10 more Palestinians have starved to death in the besieged Gaza Strip, health officials say, as a wave of hunger crashes over the enclave. The latest starvation deaths bring the death toll from malnutrition since Israel’s war began in October 2023 to 111, most of them in recent weeks. At least 100 other […]
Esme Stallard and Georgina Rannard BBC News Climate and Science Getty Images Storms and tidal surges linked to climate change are causing devastation in low-lying countries, including Marshall Islands A landmark decision by a top UN court has cleared the way for countries to sue each other over climate change, including over historic emissions of […]
FOX Weather is your Hurricane HQ. (FOX Weather) Updated at 9 a.m. ET on Wednesday, July 23, 2025 Newsportual Hurricane Center has picked up on the weak disturbance we’ve been following. They are giving it a very low chance of developing. The non-tropical disturbance is currently centered near northeast Florida and is related to a […]
A Fife councillor has been found guilty of sexual offences against a teenage girl over a seven-month period. David Graham, who was suspended from the Labour party two years ago, groomed and sexually abused the girl at a variety of locations in the Fife and Edinburgh areas in 2023. The 43-year-old was convicted of offences […]