BBC In January, Philip Marks says his prognosis was so bad that his oncologist did not think he would live to see February When his health deteriorated last winter, Phillip Marks doubted he would ever play another round of golf, let alone see his 62nd birthday. “They all thought I was going to kick the […]
Hurricane Helene continues to strengthen as it barrels toward the US Gulf Coast. The Category 1 storm is on track to quickly intensify into a dangerous Category 4 hurricane by the time it makes landfall in Florida on Thursday evening, with forecasters warning it could bring “life-threatening” storm surge, damaging winds and flooding to a […]
BBC The residents of Northstowe in Cambridgeshire have been given a lot of assurances. The plan is for more than 10,000 new homes for 26,000 people as part of the UK’s first new town since Milton Keynes was built six decades ago. Six years after people first moved into the 1,480 homes built so far, […]
Keir Starmer is set to announce the creation of a £10bn AI datacentre, bringing 4,000 jobs to north-east England, which will be funded by a private equity firm run by a big Donald Trump supporter. The prime minister is due to host chief executives in New York on Thursday, where he is trying to drum […]
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the United Nations that Russia is planning deeper attacks on his country’s nuclear power plants, warning of possible “nuclear disaster”. He said he had received intelligence showing Moscow was using satellites provided by other countries to gather information about Ukraine’s nuclear infrastructure. “Radiation does not respect state borders and […]
Football shirts were once an item of clothing for a) players to wear at work, and b) fans to sport on the terraces in solidarity with the lads out on the pitch. Now, what must seem abruptly to the uninitiated, they have become the uniform for British music festivals and a source of inspiration for […]
Wes Streeting says he will not back down in his criticism of the NHS, after the BBC revealed there was growing unease in the service about the “broken” NHS messaging from government. England’s health secretary told the Labour Party conference that not acknowledging the problems in the NHS would result in “killing it with kindness”. […]
Kensington Palace “It means change,” Prince William said, in a video message at the United Nations The Prince of Wales has issued an urgent call to end environmental destruction and to “make peace with nature”. “We are living at odds with the natural world – and it is buckling under the pressure of our actions,” […]
Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was called into question by a prosecutor, has been executed by lethal injection. Williams was put to death shortly after 23:00 GMT at a prison in Bonne Terre in Missouri, despite objections from the victim’s family and prosecutors who sought to have his conviction overturned. This comes as inmates on […]
China has said it successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) carrying a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean. The ICMB was launched at 08:44 local time (04:44 GMT) on Wednesday and “fell into expected sea areas”, Beijing’s defence ministry said, adding that the test launch was “routine” and part of its “annual training”. The […]