The World Health Organization on Wednesday (August 14) declared the mpox surge in Africa a global public health emergency, sounding its highest possible alarm over the worsening situation.

World Health Organization declares mpox a global health emergency

Balasankar Narayanan, 44, is potentially violent and should not be approached, the Met Police says.

Man who is 'risk to women' flees care facility

A quantity of what is believed to be the psychoactive substance was seized in two raids in Telford.

Four arrested in raids targeting monkey dust

Previous Home Office plans would have seen the hotel used by migrants

Hotel could be used to house homeless people

A new MP says the current water regulator Ofwat should be replaced by a new organisation with more powers. The Liberal Democrat MP for South Cambridgeshire, Pippa Heylings, says it would help ensure new developments in the area could be built sustainably. She wants a regulator to have powers to...

MP calls for new water regulator with more powers

A tribunal determines Dr Marc Whitehouse's fitness to practise to be impaired.

False prescriptions doctor's licence suspended

Police investigating the killing of a woman more than three weeks ago have released images of her missing jacket and phone case. Anita Rose, 57, from Brantham, Suffolk, was walking her dog in the village when she was attacked on 24 July. She died four days later in hospital. Suffolk...

Jacket and phone case sought in murder inquiry

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The wife of a Tory councillor could face 18 months in prison on charges of stirring up racial hatred when far-right violence swept the country.Lucy Connolly was refused bail and will appear at Northampton Crown Court accused of writing tweets calling for attacks on asylum seekers.Wearing a pink jumper while sat in police custody, Ms Connolly said “yes” when asked by the Nottingham Magistrates’ Court if she understood.Posted on X, fomerly Twitter, she wrote: “set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the b*******” on the day of a stabbing in Southport that left three young children dead.District Judge...

Tory councillor’s wife Lucy Connolly could face 18 months on racial hatred charges

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A retired military officer who had been struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) tragically died after jumping from the world’s largest cruise ship last month, authorities confirmed.

Cruise Passenger Who Jumped from World's Largest Ship After Dispute Suffered with PTSD

Lebanon's health ministry said Saturday an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon overnight killed at least 10 people, including a woman and two children, even as Western and Arab diplomats step up efforts to stave off a wider regional conflict. Violence continued to rage in the Gaza Strip, where an...

🔴 Live: Hamas official calls Biden's optimism about Gaza ceasefire ‘an illusion'

Police are investigating reports that a man claiming to be Ben Needham, who disappeared on the Greek island of Kos in 1991, has come forward to authorities in Denmark. The news comes 33 years to the day of his disappearance on 24 July. Ben, from Sheffield, was 21 months old...

Police check DNA of man claiming to be Ben Needham

Axel Rudakubana, accused of murdering three girls under age 10 and the attempted murder of eight children and two adults at a Taylor Swift dance class in Southport in Merseyside, England, appeared as The Doctor from Doctor Who in a 2018 Children in Need campaign video. Sky News reports that...

Southport stabbing suspect Axel Rudakubana has a bizarre connection to ‘Doctor Who’

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Northern Kentucky Tribune

Ready or not, back-to-school season is here, and kids will be bringing home more than homework. They’ll be carrying germs, too. These viruses and bacteria will be agents that cause the common cold, influenza, norovirus, COVID-19, strep throat and more. There’s a reason why boxes of tissues and sanitizing wipes show up on most school supply lists.

Infectious diseases spike when kids return to school — here’s what you can do about it

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

A midwife has been struck off for failing to give a newborn baby a vital vitamin k injection and then telling "deplorable" lies about it when the baby became ill. The baby boy went on to develop a rare bleeding disorder that the jab, offered to all newborns on the NHS, is designed to prevent.

Midwife struck off after baby left critically ill

WyoFile

The woman who shot a video of a hydrothermal explosion in Yellowstone National Park on Tuesday morning told WyoFile she and her family were terrified as the blast sent boiling water and rocks skyward, destroying parts of a boardwalk, its guardrail and a nearby bench.

Yellowstone hydrothermal explosion: ‘We were terrified’

Indian doctors said Friday (August 16) they would increase nationwide protests and strikes after the rape and murder of a colleague, a brutal killing that has focused outrage on the chronic issue of violence against women. Anger over the crime showed no signs of dying down a week after the 31-year-old doctor was found dead on a blood-soaked mattress in the medical college where she worked in the eastern city of Kolkata. Faye D'Souza, a journalist based in Mumbai, tells us more.

India: Protests grow over the rape and murder of a doctor

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

London (AFP) – As a marine commando, Michael Chandler knew all about daunting missions, but in his new role of Ravenmaster at the Tower of London, legend would have it that the survival of the United Kingdom now rests in his hands. King Charles II, who reigned from 1660...

At Tower of London, survival of UK in hands of new Ravenmaster

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This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

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W.H.O : Mpox is global health emergency

World's Health organization Director-General has determined that the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countries in...

W.H.O : Mpox is global health emergency

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