Vice President Harris consoles a woman as she toured damage from Hurricane Helene in the Meadowbrook neighborhood of Augusta, Ga., on Oct. 2. Brendan Smialowski/AFP hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP AUGUSTA, Ga. — Vice President Harris took a pause from the campaign trail on Wednesday to visit a neighborhood ravaged by Hurricane Helene where […]
MRC/Nature As beautiful as it is complex, the fly’s brain has more than 130,000 wires with 50 million intricate connections They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates – all this with a brain that’s tinier than a pinhead. Now for the first time scientists researching the brain […]
BBC Passengers have been told the ship will leave for France on Wednesday evening The around-the-world cruise ship, which has been stranded in Belfast for months, is set to leave for France on Wednesday evening, passengers say. After more than four months of delays, Villa Vie Residences’ Odyssey set sail on Monday. However, it only […]
BBC We’re just a few weeks from the government’s crucial first Budget on 30 October and it’s clear Chancellor Rachel Reeves intends to raise money. There is a black hole in public finances, she says – based on her apparent discovery since arriving at No 11 Downing Street in July of an unbudgeted £22bn overspend […]
Getty Images Shortages of doctors mean the average GP in England has to care for 17% more patients than nine years ago, a BBC analysis shows. It means for every permanent GP there are more than 2,300 patients – a jump of nearly 350 since 2015, helping explain why access to general practice has been […]
The fact that European Union leaders and Britain’s prime minister say that relations should improve is no guarantee that they will. Overcoming structural obstacles to closer collaboration will require a consistent application of political will. Sir Keir Starmer’s visit to Brussels on Wednesday is a significant step in that direction. He held his first official […]
Police investigating a report that a shot was fired at a taxi carrying Ian Hislop have found no evidence of this. “Urgent CCTV and forensic examinations” instead suggested a mechanical fault with the vehicle, which caused the rear window to shatter, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said. The force said officers were continuing to […]
Sunday night’s dramatic derby with city rivals Real Madrid put Atletico Madrid’s relationship with the radical block of fans that gather inside their ground under a new global spotlight. After Real Madrid took the lead, Atletico captain Koke and manager Diego Simeone pleaded for calm with balaclava-wearing supporters, who had thrown objects onto the pitch […]
Israel and Iran have issued threats of retaliation against one another, pushing longstanding concerns over escalation towards a regional war to new heights. Israel, with backing from its United States ally, has promised to respond to the huge missile attack that Iran launched late on Tuesday. Iran has said any such retaliation will be met […]
Getty Images Fewer than one out of every 10 young adults in the UK smoke cigarettes – a steep drop from a quarter of 18-24-year-olds 12 years ago, according to official estimates. Smoking rates among UK adults have been falling over the past decade, with nearly 12%, or six million people, smoking in 2023, the […]