Getty Images A palliative care nurse in Germany has been sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of the murder of 10 patients and the attempted murder of 27 others. Prosecutors alleged that the man, who has not been publicly named, injected his mostly elderly patients with painkillers or sedatives in an effort […]
Portuguese Judiciary Police The sub was located 1,000 nautical miles off the coast of Lisbon Four people have been detained after Portuguese authorities intercepted a narco-sub carrying more than 1.7 tonnes of cocaine in the mid-Atlantic. The semi-submersible vessel was bound for the Iberian peninsula and was seized in recent days, according to officials. Footage […]
Noel Titheradge,investigations correspondent and Olga Malchevska BBC ChatGPT told Viktoria that it would assess a method of suicide “without unnecessary sentimentality” Warning – this story contains discussion of suicide and suicidal feelings Lonely and homesick for a country suffering through war, Viktoria began sharing her worries with ChatGPT. Six months later and in poor mental […]
Jenny ReesWales health correspondent Lizzie Day says it is easy to fall for the buzz around the latest treatment being talked about on TikTok or Instagram For Lizzie Day, having Botox was as much a part of her routine as getting her morning coffee. It was only when a doctor friend raised concerns about a […]
Rawlstock/Getty Images Dr Mark Watson’s actions consisted of sexual harassment, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service said A doctor accused of pouring beer down a younger colleague’s cleavage before licking it off and touching her breasts has been suspended for a year. Dr Mark Johnson, who was working at West Suffolk Hospital at the time of […]
A Ukrainian court has handed down the first jail sentence for life against a Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war. Dmitry Kurashov, 27, was found guilty of shooting dead Vitalii Hodniuk, a veteran 41-year-old Ukrainian soldier who had surrendered following capture in 2024. Ukraine’s national police said that “expert reports, witness […]
Available for over a year Astronomers have new evidence, which could change what we understand about the expansion of the universe. Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University gives us his take on whether the dark energy pushing our universe apart is getting weaker. With the Turing Prize, the Nobel Prize and […]
Esme Stallard,Climate and science reporter, BBC News and Matt McGrath,Environment correspondent, BBC News Pablo Porciuncula/AFP Brazilian President Lula warned of “extremist forces” when he addressed world leaders at the global climate summit US President Donald Trump has been criticised by world leaders for his stance on climate change, ahead of the global COP30 summit. President […]
Lucy Clarke-Billings and Jonathan Head,South East Asia correspondent AFP via Getty Images Trees came down in high winds near Quy Nhon beach in Gia Lai, central Vietnam, as Kalmaegi approached on Thursday Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in Vietnam on Thursday after killing at least 114 people and flooding entire towns in the Philippines. More than […]
Attackers have boarded a ship off the coast of Somalia after firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at the vessel, according to a UK maritime agency. Greek shipping company Latsco Marine Management confirmed the attack on a ship carrying gasoline, saying all the ship’s 24 crew were “safe and accounted for” and “we remain in […]