As a nation, we British are obsessed with our gut function, largely because it has never been unhealthier. I spend large parts of my working day talking to patients about their bowel habits, and many of them want to talk about little else. There is also a deep... More »
Three British tourists are missing after a scuba diving boat they were cruising in caught fire off Egypt’s Red Sea coastline on Sunday, authorities have said.A further 12 British nationals were rescued along with 12 Egyptian crew members and were brought to sa... More »
Some of the largest communities on Reddit will lock their doors in protest at the social news site’s decision to try to monetise access to its data.More than 3,000 subreddits have joined the protest, and will go “private” on Monday 12 June, preventing anyone o... More »
Democracy Dies in DarknessAdvertisement classified Documents IndictmentAdvertisementAdvertisement(Simoul Alva for The Post)Workplace software such as Microsoft, Google Workspace, Slack and Zoom log certain activities that could be accessed by your employer.MOR... More »
Food aid to Ethiopia has been suspended after the discovery that humanitarian supplies meant for people in need were being stolen.The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday that it is halting food assistance while it rolled out “enhanced safeguards and... More »
Lucy Letby has denied she is a “very calculating” serial killer who has deliberately misled the jury in her trial over the alleged murder of babies.On a tense final day of cross-examination, the nurse admitted she was “drinking fizz and going to the races” and... More »
Political leaders and victims’ groups have accused Sinn Féin of glorifying murder at a planned commemoration in Northern Ireland for one of the IRA’s deadliest units.John Finucane, the party’s North Belfast MP, is to address an event on Sunday honouring member... More »
Millions of Americans remained under air quality warnings on Friday, even as smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires began to dissipate in the north-eastern US.Moderate to unhealthy air quality continued to linger across a swathe of the country, from the mid... More »
Thousands of bowel cancer patients could be spared radiotherapy, a study suggests, after doctors discovered they could rely on chemotherapy and surgery alone to treat their disease.Radiotherapy has been used to treat bowel cancer patients for decades, but the ... More »
The Opec+ group of oil-producing countries has reached an agreement to extend output cuts into next year, in the face of flagging prices and a looming supply glut.The oil cartel reportedly agreed to reduce its output by 1.4m barrels a day, at a meeting in Vien... More »
Twitter’s value has plummeted by almost two-thirds since Elon Musk acquired the company in October 2022, one of the social media company’s only remaining external investors has admitted.Fidelity, an asset manager that held a stake in Twitter worth about $20m a... More »
From 41m agoThe death toll from a Russian missile attack in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to two, with 23 people wounded, Reuters reports.A Russian missile hit a clinic in Dnipro overnight, killing a 69-year-old man had been killed as he was “... More »