18 hours ago By Louise Parry, BBC News, Essex Getty Images BBL surgery has the highest death rate of all cosmetic procedures, according to the NHS A council is investigating after people ended up in hospital following Brazilian butt lift procedures. Brentwood Borough Council in Essex wants to hear from anyone in the area who has had […]
Please note that we are not authorised to provide any investment advice. The content on this page is for information purposes only. As the UK launched its General Elections earlier today, the country’s payments group, The Payments Association, urged the upcoming government to impose a ‘Tech Levy’ on social media giants. Essentially, the group wants […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Gearing up to buy a new computer? Get ready to hear a lot about AI. Over the last few weeks, Dell, HP, Samsung, Lenovo and other PC makers released nearly a dozen new Windows laptops, all packing AI processors and features. Microsoft calls them “Copilot+ PCs” — a nod to its Copilot […]
New York City, United States – A metallic blur streaked past Khader Khalilia’s ear. The bullet, so close he could hear it, smashed into a painting of Romeo and Juliet on the wall behind him. As more shots rang out, Khalilia and his family fell to the floor of their house in Beit Jala, just […]
In September 2023, Simon Boas was diagnosed with throat cancer. Aged just 46, he was told the disease was terminal, and that it would ultimately take his life. Over the following year, he knitted together his reflections on life into a book – A Beginner’s Guide to Dying. The book is set to hit the […]
BBC June’s weather may have felt erratic at times – but for some social media users, there was nothing random about it. They wrongly blamed it on “weather manipulation” and “geoengineering”. Others accused weather presenters of “hiding the truth” from the public. Much of June experienced temperatures about 2C (3.6F) lower than average, due to […]
22 minutes ago By Tom Espiner, BBC business reporter Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Former Post Office chair Tim Parker has denied deliberately hiding a key report he commissioned into the Horizon IT system from members of the Post Office board. The 2016 report, written by former top Treasury lawyer Jonathan Swift, raised concerns about the accounting […]
As the war enters its 859th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Fighting Russian attacks on the central Ukrainian city of Nikopol killed two women aged 61 and 86, and wounded nine other people, according to regional Governor Serhiy Lysak. The attacks damaged residential housing, educational […]
The US government has given Moderna $176m (£139m) to develop a messenger-ribonucleic-acid-based (mRNA) pandemic influenza vaccine that would work against bird flu. It says it wants to be “better prepared” for public-health crises, having learned lessons from Covid. Bird flu is not a big threat to people, despite outbreaks in poultry and cattle. But experts […]
Influencer and model Nara Smith, TikTok-famous for making bubble gum and tapioca pearls from scratch, recently shared a recipe for homemade sunscreen — one that dermatologists don’t condone. In the video, her husband Lucky Blue Smith whisks coconut oil, shea butter, cocoa butter, beeswax and jojoba oil in a bowl over boiling water, and once […]