Noel Titheradge BBC News Investigations correspondent Curtis Lancaster BBC South Investigations BBC Claire says she began to feel unprecedented sexual urges after taking the drugs Patients prescribed drugs for movement disorders – including restless leg syndrome (RLS) – say doctors did not warn them about serious side effects that led them to seek out risky […]
Five years after Covid-19 shut down activities all over the world, medical historians sometimes struggle to place the pandemic in context. What, they are asking, should this ongoing viral threat be compared with? Is Covid like the 1918 flu, terrifying when it was raging but soon relegated to the status of a long-ago nightmare? Is […]
We’re only now heading into NFL free agency, but it’s already been a wild offseason — trades, coaching changes and big-money contract extensions have been happening at every turn. How will all of the movement affect the 2025 NFL Draft? As the legal tampering window opens, here’s a look at how the first three rounds […]
Maybe that was a true reflection of reality. Our dogs regularly romped through Prospect Park in Brooklyn, swapped germs with playmates and scarfed down rogue chicken bones, while our cats lived cosseted, indoor lives. Now I suspect that we may have missed signs of illness in our cats. I had worried that we were overreacting […]
Mar 10, 2025, 08:00 PM ET Former heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury and ex-Manchester United and England forward Wayne Rooney will join forces to co-manage the England Soccer Aid side at Old Trafford in June. The event, co-founded by singer Robbie Williams and supported by UNICEF, has raised over £106 million ($137m) for charity since […]
Two NASA missions, set for a late-night launch aboard a single rocket on Monday night, have been delayed again. Both aim to unravel mysteries about the universe — one by peering far from Earth, the other by looking closer to home. Less than an hour before the scheduled launch on a Falcon 9 rocket on […]
Fears over the future health of the global economy are continuing to rattle markets around the world, as investors grapple with the reality of tariffs and fresh signs that consumers are pulling back on spending. After the S&P 500 suffered its worst day of the year on Monday, the sell-off continued into Asia trading on […]
Laura Bicker China correspondent BBC/ Xiqing Wang China is embracing artificial intelligence, from educational tools to humanoid robots in factories Head in hands, eight-year-old Timmy muttered to himself as he tried to beat a robot powered by artificial intelligence at a game of chess. But this was not an AI showroom or laboratory – this […]
The entire water and waste sector was privatised 34 years ago under the late Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government for £7.6bn. At the time, Mrs Thatcher wrote off the industry’s £5bn debt, leaving companies with a clean slate and gave them £1.5bn in public money. The government had wanted to privatise the industry in 1984 but […]
The Seattle Seahawks have agreed to trade wide receiver DK Metcalf to the Pittsburgh Steelers for a second-round pick in the 2025 draft, according to league sources. Why they made the move The Seahawks entered the offseason intent on keeping Metcalf on an extension that would have kept both sides happy, but Metcalf requested a […]