In a city where world-class masterpieces sit in marble temples that line the National Mall, the small museum devoted to the work of the Environmental Protection Agency, tucked away in a federal building near the White House, has not exactly inspired much fanfare. But as President Trump and Elon Musk slash and burn their way […]
Diana Gibb Mick needs creon since being treated for pancreatic cancer in 2023 Cancer patients and others with debilitating conditions have highlighted shortages of a vital drug they say have had a “devastating” impact on their lives. Creon, a pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (Pert), helps digestion, but has been hard to obtain for the last […]
Patients will be able to book more appointments online and request to see their usual doctor under a new contract agreed with England’s GPs, the government has said. The deal gives an extra £889m a year to general practices, as well as a reduction in red tape and targets that ministers hope will mean doctors […]
Feb 27, 2025, 08:24 AM ET Claudio Echeverri will join Manchester City’s squad. Photo by JoaquÃn Camiletti/Getty Images Argentina youth international Claudio Echeverri has completed his permanent move to Manchester City more than a year after signing for the English champions before staying at River Plate on loan. The 19-year-old will add more youthful energy to […]
Early on in “The Substance,” the body horror film starring Demi Moore that has been nominated for five Academy Awards, Dennis Quaid grotesquely consumes an endless amount of peel-and-eat shrimp while firing Ms. Moore’s character for the crime of turning 50. Shells fly and sweat collects on his upper lip while he gesticulates wildly with […]
The world’s nations have agreed a funding plan at UN talks in Rome for reversing the decline of nature. Countries were eventually able to overcome deep divisions which had led to the breakdown of negotiations last year in Colombia. It is hoped that the deal will help countries to reach their goal of raising $200bn […]
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” The projects terminated include H.I.V. treatment programs that had served millions of people, the main malaria control programs in the worst-affected African countries […]
When Saori Kawano arrived in New York City in 1978 from Yokohama, most Americans’ ideas of Japanese food ended at instant ramen and onion volcanoes. Since then, if you’ve enjoyed hand-cut soba noodles or an omakase dinner, or admired the graceful curves of a rice bowl or the flash of a Japanese knife blade, you […]
Wrexham have missed a golden opportunity to play a final at Wembley Stadium after losing to Peterborough United on penalties in the EFL Trophy semifinals. The Welsh side were 2-0 up before the visitors came roaring back in the second half to make it 2-2 to force the match to a penalty shootout, which they won 4-2. “We’ve […]
Nearly 2,000 years after a young man died in the Vesuvius volcanic eruption, scientists have discovered that his brain was preserved when it turned to glass in an extremely hot cloud of ash. Researchers found the glass in 2020 and speculated that it was a fossilised brain but did not know how it had formed. […]