Women aged in their 50s and 60s have been urged to practise safe sex after a rise in new cases of HIV in heterosexual groups. As World Aids Day is marked, campaigners say women in this age group could be at greater risk of catching the virus because some are not using condoms. Blue Sky […]
Mayeni Jonesand Kyla Herrmannsen,in Minna, Nigeria EPA/Shutterstock Parents have been waiting outside the school in Papiri desperate for news Many of the parents whose children were abducted 10 days ago from a boarding school in Nigeria are terrified – they do not want to talk to the authorities or journalists in case of reprisals from […]
Seher Asaf, Patrick Jacksonand Yang Tian Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 King Charles III and Queen Camilla have led tributes to famed playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, who died aged 88, hailing him as “one of our greatest writers”. “A dear friend who wore his genius lightly, he could, and did, turn his pen […]
Megan Daviesand Carwyn John,BBC Wales Ray Burmiston Russell T Davies, creator of It’s a Sin, has written about life in the ’80s when there was no treatment for HIV It’s a Sin writer Russell T Davies has warned “the fight is not over” when it comes to eradicating HIV. He said misinformation about the virus […]
A council has unanimously voted to become the first endometriosis friendly local authority in the north of England. Deputy mayor of Redcar Ceri Cawley was diagnosed with the condition in her early 20s and has struggled with “agonising pain” for years. As well as Redcar and Cleveland Council, Southwark and Stoke-on-Trent City councils, have joined […]
Getty Images The UK’s National Screening Committee has recommended that only a very small group of men at high risk of prostate cancer should be screened for the disease. There is currently no screening programme for prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men. But there has been some energetic campaigning for change by high-profile […]
Charlie Rose,South East home affairs correspondentand Joshua Askew,South East Kent Police Juska walked to a bus stop and told a passerby he had killed someone Warning: This article contains details some readers may find disturbing. A man who stabbed a sleeping family friend to death in a “senseless” act has been sentenced to life imprisonment […]
Watch: Trump announces death of National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom One of the two members of the National Guard who were shot in Washington DC on Wednesday has died, US President Donald Trump said. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, succumbed to her injuries, President Trump said on Thursday evening. The second National Guard member, 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, […]
Hugo BachegaMiddle East correspondent , Southern Lebanon Neha Sharma/BBC Last Friday, at around 19:00, an Israeli air strike hit a car in a village in southern Lebanon called Froun. This part of the country is the heartland of the Shia Muslim community, and for decades has been under the sway of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia […]
A group of 24 Nigerian girls who were abducted from their boarding school over a week ago have been released, the country’s president says. Armed assailants stormed the school in Nigeria’s Kebbi State on 17 November, killing two members of staff and abducting 25 students. One was able to escape soon after. Nigerian President Bola […]