World's first SPIT-based pregnancy test goes on sale on the high street for £10
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor decades, women wanting to find out if they are pregnant have needed to take a discrete visit to the bathroom to…
Taiwan kindergarten druggings spark alarm among island's parents
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteInvestigations into the drugging of preschool children in Taiwan have sparked widespread alarm on the island. Read More
Girls as young as 12 raped in Sudan conflict as UN warns of rise in sexual violence
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDozens of women and girls, some as young as 12, have been sexually assaulted in the two months since Sudan erupted into…
Taliban's treatment of women could be 'gender apartheid' - UN expert
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA United Nations expert said on Monday that the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women and girls could amount to gender apartheid as…
Children and elderly dying at Sudan’s border after walking for days to flee war
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteChildren and elderly people are dying at the Sudanese border after exhausting journeys fleeing the bloody conflict in Khartoum. Read More
Rise of the single mother: Number seeking to get pregnant through IVF soars 44% in wake of Covid - amid boom in egg-freezing rates
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe number of single women trying to get pregnant through IVF has soared while demand for egg-freezing is also booming, Read More
Nearly 100 die as scorching heatwave with 45C temperatures sweeps northern India
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A scorching heatwave sweeping across northeast India has caused nearly 100 deaths in two states with hundreds hospitalised in the span of…
Synthetic human embryo raises ethical issues
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteScientists have created the synthetic human embryos – using no eggs or sperm – provoking deep ethical questions, according to reports. Read…
Italy is gripped by hunt for five-year-old Peruvian girl who was 'bundled into a suitcase and kidnapped' from squat occupied by 140 illegal migrants in Florence
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA desperate search for a five-year-old girl who has been missing for ten days continued today in Florence, as police seized control…
Eating just 10 extra grams of fibre a day could reduce risk of stroke by 23%, says doctor
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePrevention is always better than treatment, but this is especially true for stroke.