The Al-Jaleel Society for Care and Community-based Rehabilitation has provided essential services to disabled Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp for decades. But now, after repeated Israeli attacks, the centre has been destroyed, and its staff have discovered that it sits in an Israeli-designated demolition zone. Al-Jaleel’s staff have received no official notice, but in early […]
Getty Images A young child has died at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Hospital after contracting measles, raising concerns about the spread of the disease. Cases have been rising in the UK and around the world, with more than 500 reported since January in England alone. The increase is being blamed on the poor uptake of the […]
An estimated 650 companies from 60 countries have gathered at the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has called China’s open-source artificial intelligence a “catalyst for global progress” and says it is “revolutionising” supply chains. In a speech during Wednesday’s opening ceremony of the China International Supply Chain Expo in […]
Alison Francis Senior Science Journalist RBG Kew The renovation will begin in 2027 and will take an estimated five years It’s a makeover on a massive scale – it involves moving 1,300 plants, replacing 16,000 panes of glass and cleaning up hundreds of tonnes of iron. This is the ambitious £50m plan to renovate the […]
PA Media Tánaiste Simon Harris says the impact of 30% tariffs from the United States would be “extraordinary” Ireland is “now at a moment of major economic challenge”, Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Simon Harris has said. It comes after US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose 30% tariffs on imports from the European Union […]
Sun shines on the U.S Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 9, 2022. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP The Senate is moving to vote this week on the Trump administration’s request to claw back federal funding for public media and foreign assistance programs. The House approved the package last […]
Listen to the sounds three different plants might make if they were stressed Animals react to sounds being made by plants, new research suggests, opening up the possibility that an invisible ecosystem might exist between them. In the first ever such evidence, a team at Tel Aviv University found that female moths avoided laying their […]
Rescue effort under way after boat carrying 18 people capsizes in bad weather off the Mentawai Islands. Rescuers in Indonesia are searching for 11 people who went missing after a boat capsized in bad weather off the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra province, according to a local search and rescue agency. Dozens of rescuers and […]
President Trump has made some big shifts in U.S. policy on Russia’s war with Ukraine lately. In the course of two weeks, Trump halted and reinstated weapons to Ukraine and he began openly showing frustration with Russian president Vladimir Putin’s continued military escalations. Now, Trump has announced a deal with NATO to try to pressure […]
Getty Images Resident doctors in England are planning a walkout for five consecutive days from 25 July, over a pay dispute with the government. They say they haven’t had a “credible pay deal” for 2025-2026, but Health Secretary Wes Streeting argues the strike is “unreasonable” after substantial pay rises in recent years. What are resident […]