How to keep your brain sharp in your 50s and beyond
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt was the alarming claim that made headlines this week — Covid had a ‘real lasting impact’ on the brain health of…
Black and Asian women ‘three times as likely to be on zero-hours contracts as white men’
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBlack, Asian and minority ethnic women are nearly three times as likely to be on zero-hours contracts as white men, new figures show. Read More
Pope urges 'stop in the name of God', calls for Gaza humanitarian aid
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePope Francis made an urgent plea for a halt to the conflict in Gaza on Sunday, calling for humanitarian aid and help…
Hundreds seek council help every day in UK youth homelessness crisis
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteEnough young people sought help for homelessness in the UK last year to fill the Albert Hall 25 times, but tens of…
Maternity care ‘in crisis’ as pregnant women are forced to delay induced deliveries
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePregnant women are being forced to wait days longer than expected for “urgent” inductions of labour as NHS staff shortages and a lack…
Afghanistan opium poppy supply plummets 95% after Taliban ban - U.N
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteOpium poppy production in Afghanistan, previously the world’s top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban administration banned the cultivation of narcotics last…
Afghans fleeing Pakistan lack shelter, food, and warmth once they cross the border, aid groups say
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfghans fleeing Pakistan to avoid arrest and deportation are sleeping in the open, without proper shelter, food, drinking water and toilets once they cross…
NHS hit by ‘severe’ drug shortages due to Brexit red tape
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMedicine shortages in the UK are “as bad as they have ever been”, say health experts, as a new report warns that Brexit…
GOP mayor dies by suicide after cross-dressing revealed by rightwing site
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn Alabama mayor and pastor has died by suicide shortly after a rightwing site published images of him wearing women’s clothes and makeup. …
Leroy Stover, Birmingham's first Black police officer, dies at 90
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe City of Birmingham’s first Black police officer, Leroy Stover, has died. He was 90. Read More