Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation Authority confirmed on Tuesday that two airports close to the Yemeni border sustained strikes the previous evening, leaving three people injured and causing material damage to infrastructure at both sites. King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz airport in…
The sequence of events that has brought the United Kingdom to its current meteorological juncture began not in Britain but thousands of miles away, in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, where sea surface temperatures began rising considerably above their long-run averages.…
The energy price cap will rise by £60 per year for a typical household from 1 October, Ofgem confirmed this week, as a government decision to remove VAT from domestic electricity bills prevents what would otherwise have been a £105…
Across Britain, tens of thousands of people live with chronic blood conditions that impose a quiet but persistent burden on daily life — affecting their capacity to cook a meal, manage their medication, or simply move around their homes with…
The arrest of a former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service on suspicion of treason and espionage represents a serious breach at the heart of the country’s security apparatus, raising uncomfortable questions about the integrity of its most sensitive institutions.…
A Revised Standard for Diagnosis A large international study published in eClinicalMedicine has concluded that a newly proposed global definition of clinical obesity identifies substantially fewer children as obese than the body mass index criterion currently in widespread use, with…
Step outside in London this weekend and the calendar seems almost implausible. The thermometer reads 24°C, a light southerly breeze carries the unmistakable warmth of continental air, and the Turkish city of Istanbul — at a comparatively modest 21°C —…
Health authorities across Europe and Russia are contending with a fresh wave of mutated influenza strains against which the general population carries no natural immunity. A Complete Reformulation The clearest signal that something significant has shifted came with the vaccine…
The government has quietly buried one of its more contentious inheritance from the Starmer era. Ministers under Andy Burnham have scrapped proposals to expand judge-alone trials in England and Wales, abandoning a policy drawn up by David Lammy under Sir…
What was the controversy surrounding Penny Mordaunt’s candidacy? Dame Penny Mordaunt has been cleared to stand as a Conservative candidate at the next general election, putting to rest persistent speculation that party leader Kemi Badenoch had moved to block her…