Getty Images Prince William will visit the Principality Stadium on World Suicide Prevention day The Prince of Wales will visit a new mental health hub being set up in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium later. The Jac Lewis Foundation, created in memory of the former Swansea City academy player who took his own life in 2019, has […]
A third of children under five are living in UK homes where this is not enough access to healthy and nutritious food, according to anti-poverty charity Trussell Trust. Surveys by the charity found more than 14 million people in the UK faced the prospect of going hungry last year due to the lack of money. […]
David CowanHome affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland BBC Shirley Hutton is leading a campaign calling for the abolition of OLRs The use of lifelong sentences by Scottish courts could result in “inhuman and degrading” treatment, human rights campaigners have warned. Orders for lifelong restriction (OLRs) were introduced almost 20 years ago to protect the public from […]
Watch: Researchers ‘hopeful’ after koala chlamydia vaccine approval A vaccine which could save Australia’s endangered koala population from a rampant chlamydia epidemic has been approved for rollout for the first time. University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) scientists have spent more than a decade developing a jab to curb the spread of the disease, which […]
Mark PoyntingClimate and science reporter, BBC News Getty Images Plans to fight climate change by manipulating the Arctic and Antarctic environment are dangerous, unlikely to work and could distract from the need to ditch fossil fuels, dozens of polar scientists have warned. These polar “geoengineering” techniques aim to cool the planet in unconventional ways, such […]
Animals giving birth is not usually shocking for staff at Telford’s Exotic Zoo, but a lizard in their care recently left them stunned after giving birth without mating. A female casque-headed iguana produced eight hatchlings during the last week of August in a so-called “virgin birth”. It is due to a process called parthenogenesis, which […]
Amy ColeMidlands Today and Tanya GuptaBBC News, West Midlands BBC Staff practise on Linda the mannequin in the simulation laboratory A simulation laboratory that can be used to recreate emergency childbirth situations for staff learning in a risk-free environment is revolutionising maternity training in Birmingham, the NHS has said. The unit at Birmingham Women’s Hospital […]
Getty Images Epstein and Trump in 1997 – the pair were friendly for years, but Trump says they fell out in the early 2000s US lawmakers have released copies of a “birthday book” given to the late convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, which includes a note allegedly signed by US President Donald Trump. […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened Palestinians in Gaza City to “leave now”, as the United Nations human rights chief condemned Israel for what he described as the “mass killing” of civilians and deliberate obstruction of lifesaving aid. Volker Turk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, accused Israel on Monday of committing […]
Carlos Alcaraz of Spain celebrates after defeating Jannik Sinner of Italy at the U.S. Open on Sunday in New York City. Sarah Stier/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sarah Stier/Getty Images President Trump attended the U.S. Open men’s tennis finals on Sunday in Rolex’s luxury box, stepping out of the suite briefly for an on-camera […]