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How weight-loss injections are making obesity a wealth issue

Nick TriggleHealth correspondent BBC Three years ago, a fashion editor friend returned from Milan Fashion Week bursting with a story to tell. Most fashion editors stayed at the same hotel, she explained, and each bedroom had its own mini fridge. After checking out, en route to the airport, a stylist in her party cried out […]

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UK’s first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer

Georgina RannardClimate and science correspondent Gwyndaf Hughes/BBC Nadine Mitschunas is the UK’s first rice grower Gwyndaf HughesClimate and science videographer In an ordinary field in a quiet part of east England, a unique experiment is taking root. “When I tell people what I’m doing here, they think I’m joking,” says Nadine Mitschunas, the UK’s first […]

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Oregon sues Trump administration over plans to deploy troops

Watch: Oregon governor says Trump does not have authority to deploy troops to Portland Newsportual Guard will be deployed to Portland, Oregon, for the next two months, following an order by US President Donald Trump. At least 200 National Guard members will be deployed to the city to “protect federal property” where protests are “occurring […]

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Nigeria’s jollof champion and record-breaking chef

AFP via Getty Images Nigerian celebrity chef and double Guinness World Record breaker Hilda Baci makes no secret about what drives her success. “[It’s] my love for money and the good things in life,” the 30-year-old says unabashedly, laughing on a call from Lagos. There is nothing bashful about Baci – who has changed the […]

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Samaritans facing volunteer exodus over proposed branch closures

Michael BuchananSocial affairs correspondent Samaritans Samaritans volunteer James Watkins says concerns over proposed branch closures are “falling on deaf ears” Hundreds of Samaritans volunteers say they will leave the suicide prevention charity if plans to close more than 100 branches are supported at a meeting this weekend. Some opponents of the changes fear an exodus […]

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astronauts ready to go to Moon “for all humanity”

Pallab GhoshScience Correspondent Commander Reid Wiseman: “We’re going to the Moon… it’s going to be amazing!” The commander of Nasa’s next mission to the Moon said that he and his crew would “see things that no human has ever seen”. Reid Wiseman told a news conference that it was likely that his spacecraft would fly […]

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Tunbridge Wells nurse describes ‘chaotic’ night baby died

Family handout Tommy died when he was seven months old The night a baby died with an undiagnosed heart condition in a Kent hospital was “quite chaotic”, a court has been told. Head nurse Ronald Carrido was giving evidence at an inquest into the death of seven month-old Tommy Kneebone on 21 January, 2023, at […]

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Environment Agency failed to visit serious pollution incidents, leaked files show

Jonah FisherEnvironment correspondent Getty Images Serious pollution incidents are those which have an impact on the environment, people or property. Documents and data shared with BBC News from inside England’s much criticised environment watchdog show an agency struggling to monitor incidents of serious pollution. The information shows the Environment Agency (EA) only sent investigators to […]

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