BBC Reef’s father believes his son – seen here with a baby cousin just days before was killed – wanted children Increasing numbers of bereaved parents in Israel are asking for sperm from the bodies of their sons – many of them soldiers – to be extracted and frozen. Some rules on the procedure have … Read more
Getty Images Dua Lipa was born in the UK to Kosovan-Albanian parents Across the summer in the UK there’s a music festival pretty much every week somewhere in the country. Highlights include the summer kick off with Radio 1’s Big Weekend in May, Glastonbury’s dominance in June, Latitude in July and a Reading and Leeds … Read more
In the total chaos of the team final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, as the sky seemed to be falling and Simone Biles was forced to withdraw mid-competition, USA responded to the unexpected adversity with admirable resolve. They finished with a silver medal, a proud achievement, but one that left them even hungrier than before. … Read more
The most immediately convincing words out of the subject’s mouth in A Storm Foretold are when he is threatening the director. “Obviously,” says Roger Stone to Danish film-maker Christoffer Guldbrandsen at the end of an anti-Trump rant, “if you use any of that I’ll murder you.” As Guldbrandsen notes earlier in the film, their relationship … Read more
Team GB bagged two more gold medals and Simone Biles led the USA women’s gymnastics team to Olympic redemption on a steamy day in Paris when organisers faced exacting questions over their preparations for the extreme weather. A win in the 4x200m freestyle race ahead of the USA and Australia and a Games record in … Read more
As it was in Tokyo, so it goes again in Paris. The Great Britain quartet of James Guy, Tom Dean, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott defended their Olympic 4x200m freestyle relay title, and won Team GB’s first gold medal of the swimming competition at these Games. They beat both the USA and Australia, and did … Read more
Police attacked as protest breaks out in Southport Several officers have been injured and a police van set on fire during a protest just hours after a vigil took place to remember the victims of a knife attack in which three children were killed. The protest, which police said was believed to involve English Defence … Read more
Key moments from tense Secret Service congressional hearing The new acting head of the US Secret Service said he “lost sleep” over security failures that led to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump during a testy congressional hearing on Tuesday. At an hours-long US Senate hearing, Ronald Rowe and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate outlined … Read more
Nurses feel “empowered” with an integrated patient discharge analytics technology that leverages artificial intelligence to analyze administrative tasks, such as discharge coordination, test ordering and prescriptions, says Jean Halpin, chief operating officer at Grant Medical Center. It’s been shown recently that many nurses are distrustful of AI. But at the Central Ohio-based health system, nurses are … Read more
About 10 minutes into the latest preview build of Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft’s forthcoming open-world adventure, lead character Kay Vess enters Mirogana: a densely populated, worn-down city on the desolate moon of Toshara. Around us is a mix of sandstone hovels and metallic sci-fi buildings, crammed with flickering computer panels, neon signs and holographic adverts. … Read more