Do we really have free will when it comes to eating? It’s a vexing question that is at the heart of why so many people find it so difficult to stick to a diet. To get answers, one neuroscientist, Harvey J. Grill of the University of Pennsylvania, turned to rats and asked what would happen […]
Sarah Paiji Yoo started her career in finance and then founded several start-ups, mostly in the fashion and beauty worlds. But during parental leave after the birth of her first child, she realized how many microplastics her family was inadvertently consuming. “I started to have mixed feelings around pushing people to buy more things, when […]
Nalini Sivathasan and Tom Beal BBC News Investigations BBC/The Postal Museum/Getty Images The Post Office has paid more than £600m of public money to continue using the faulty Horizon IT system despite deciding to ditch it more than a decade ago, the BBC can reveal. The terms of the original 1999 deal with computer giant […]
In late 2023, Israel was aiming to assassinate Ibrahim Biari, a top Hamas commander in the northern Gaza Strip who had helped plan the Oct. 7 massacres. But Israeli intelligence could not find Mr. Biari, who they believed was hidden in the network of tunnels underneath Gaza. So Israeli officers turned to a new military […]
First Minister Michelle O’Neill will travel to Rome to attend the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday. She will join political leaders including Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin and Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney at the ceremony. O’Neill had cut short a family holiday so that plans could be made […]
Bill Edgar Local Democracy Reporting Service Google St Mary’s Church said its food bank is costing too much to run A food bank is to hand out just one bag of food a month because it is running out of money. St Mary’s Church, in the Cockerton area of Darlington, said it was struggling to […]
Virginia Giuffre, a former victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring who said she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” as a teenager to rich and powerful predators, including Prince Andrew of Britain, died on Friday at her farm in Western Australia. She was 41. Ms. Giuffre died by suicide, according to a statement […]
Same cereal. Same sugary taste. Different hues. A box of Froot Loops sold in the United States contains vivid rings of red, orange, green, purple, yellow and blue — neon colors derived from synthetic dyes, like Red No. 40, Yellow No. 5, Blue No. 1 and Yellow No. 6. In a box sold in Canada, […]
Wrexham’s women’s team have a golden opportunity to bring in the club’s first major trophy when they face Cardiff City in the Bute Energy Cup final on April 27. It’s a familiar stage, as they faced the same opponent, at the same venue, in the same final last year, but suffered a 2-0 defeat at […]
BBC Kerry has grown her business over 30 years but fears she could now lose it “I never wanted to do anything else but be a hairdresser,” said Kerry Larcher, who opened her first salon when she was 21-years-old. Despite successfully growing her business in Hornchurch, in East London, over three decades, the 50-year-old says […]